How To Get Nooklink App

Typing on the Nintendo Switch is a flake fiddly. In Brute Crossing: New Horizons, your character will scrunch its face into something akin to the thinking confront emoji while the keyboard is open. It'south a physical cue to your pals that you're trying to talk to them — similar to when your phone is out, which is a cue that you lot're probably distracted. Typing, whether you're using a finger or your Joy-Cons, still takes a while. Most of the time, I would rather just not chat. But then, I remembered NookLink.

NookLink is an application within the Nintendo Switch Online app for iOS and Android smartphones. It'due south got a number of different features, but the most useful ane — for me, at to the lowest degree — is the conversation functionality. You lot can use NookLink to conversation through vocalism or text, and it's a lot more capable than the in-game keyboard.

Here'due south how to set it up.

Get-go, you lot'll need to download the Nintendo Switch Online app from your phone'south app shop. Once it's opened and you lot're signed in, select Beast Crossing: New Horizons from the "Game-Specific Services" listing. If it's the first fourth dimension you've opened the app, you lot'll demand to consummate a few steps to get it connected to your game.

Open up Creature Crossing: New Horizons to its title screen
Hit the minus push button (-) on the Nintendo Switch (top left corner)
Select "NookLink Settings" and follow Tom Nook'southward instructions
Restart the Nintendo Switch Online app and NookLink

One time y'all've completed these steps, yous'll have admission to the NookLink app. Open Animal Crossing: New Horizons on your Nintendo Switch. Once you lot want to chat, select "Keyboards" in NookLink and get texting. Anything you lot type on there volition appear on screen in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. One important thing to annotation is that y'all'll merely exist able to send messages to pals when you lot're connected to the internet.

Please, take this gift and chat happily with your friends.

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