{"id":124275,"date":"2022-04-26T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-130679"},"modified":"2022-04-26T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T21:00:00","slug":"nintendo-shares-advice-for-those-suffering-switch-battery-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/26\/nintendo-shares-advice-for-those-suffering-switch-battery-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Shares Advice For Those Suffering Switch Battery Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fcd58599690f5\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fcd58599690f5\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Pretty simple, really<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/10558\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"ThomasBW84\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/ThomasBW84\">Thomas Whitehead<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <span>3 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Switch OLED Metroid\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fcd58599690f5\/switch-oled-metroid.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fcd58599690f5\/switch-oled-metroid.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Switch OLED Metroid\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In recent months some Switch owners (notably with relatively new OLED models) have been highlighting issues with their system&#8217;s battery. An example of the problem would be the battery draining rapidly overnight when the console&#8217;s in sleep mode, or potentially having less stamina than normal during gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s official customer service department has now shared a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/support.nintendo.co.jp\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/35149\">set of steps<\/a> (in Japanese), which are rather basic but worth following if your battery is draining unexpectedly. Below are the translated steps.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to &#8216;System Settings&#8217;, &#8216;Sleep Mode&#8217; and set &#8216;Auto-Sleep (Playing on Console Screen)&#8217; to &#8216;Never&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Have the Switch undocked in portable mode, with no AC power connected.<\/li>\n<li>Start a game and leave it untouched, for example on a Title Screen.<\/li>\n<li>Leave the Switch alone with the screen on.<\/li>\n<li>Wait until the battery runs out (the screen will go black as the system shuts down).<\/li>\n<li>When the battery has run out, plug your Switch in to charge and leave it <strong>for at least 4 hours<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If using the latest model, and to avoid potential OLED burn-in, we&#8217;d add advice to follow these steps when your battery level is already relatively low, so it&#8217;s not on a title screen for <em>too<\/em> long before the battery dies.<\/p>\n<p>Fully discharging a battery before doing a recharge is pretty standard advice for draining issues, but it&#8217;s certainly worth a try if you&#8217;ve been affected by the problem.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/support.nintendo.co.jp\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/35149\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.nintendo.co.jp\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/35149\">support.nintendo.co.jp<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/news.denfaminicogamer.jp\/news\/220426k\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.denfaminicogamer.jp\/news\/220426k\">news.denfaminicogamer.jp<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2022-04-27T00:23:22+01:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty simple, really by Thomas Whitehead 3 hours ago Image: Nintendo Life In recent months some Switch owners (notably with relatively new OLED models) have been highlighting issues with their system&#8217;s battery. An example of the problem would be the battery draining rapidly overnight when the console&#8217;s in sleep mode, or potentially having less stamina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}