How to Transfer Save Data to Another Switch In Animal Crossing: New Horizons! (Guide)

Here's a quick look at how to transfer save data to another Nintendo Switch in Animal Crossing: New Horizons!

[andrewq]

It’s nice that Nintendo is listening. This should have been here at launch but hey, better late than never.

[awkwardsilence]

So I take it this just showcases an entire island being moved from one system to another, right? I’d be more curious to know how an individual player moving from one island to the other goes...

[xavielittlewolf]

Wow thank you for the demonstration, i will be transferring my data asap. Finally i will get to play it on the limited edition device. :D

[ShinobiPhoenix-YT]

OK, there's like two important questions this video doesn't answer.

A: How does the User Transfer function of the Switch affect ACNH data? Usually when you do that, it erases your user profile from the old Switch when moving to the target Switch. I only ever did it once from my roommate's Switch to my own (once I bought one). So I don't remember if you can leave a "non-Primary account" on the old Switch.

Which is Question B: Which Switch needs to be the Primary Account holder in order to move the data? The original or the target (or does it matter)?

I found out the hard way about Switch's data limitations when I sent my Switch in for repairs and they had to send me a new Switch. Anything like ACNH I think would have been lost and some of my data that should have been in the Cloud wasn't backed up for some reason. Plus, turns out MicroSD's are locked to the console, so I had to reformat and re-download ALL of my games even though they were all already installed on the SD card. It's the biggest reason I haven't bought ACNH.

[UttRConcrete]

Nintendo’s always backwards and makes things harder then necessary.

[norah]

Thank you for making this! It helps so much. My family has been fighting over sharing our switch for 2 years now, and by pooling my Christmas money and gift cards I will be buying one for myself! This will help me transfer my Animal Crossing so I can play as much as I want ;D

[fgfhjfhjfbhfghf]

Fans: why can't you be normal!?
Nintendo:

[eisernfront]

finally. I got the AC Switch for my duagther and now I can transfer her saves from my Switch to hers

[King_Luigi]

1:19 - ~ _2 Hours Later_ ~
2:23 - *_"MY EYEEEES!!!"_*

[sarajoyous]

Thank goodness! I’m getting a coral Nintendo lite for Christmas because my mum wants my green one 😂 had to make sure I wouldn’t lose my island data!!

[isakts]

This is really nice, I've been wanting to jump back into ac ever since I got the switch v2, and now I finally can :)

[No-One-Important-Here]

I just want to point out Nintendo violated their home screen icon guidelines (edit) by not putting the island transfer app name on it. 😂

[deepdivemusicreactions]

what if I don't have access to both consoles in the same moment? is there a cloud storage option available?

[success]

I have two islands, one on my switch lite and one on my normal switch. Does anybody know if it's possible to swap the save data from the two islands? Like if I wanted to play my switch lite island on my normal switch from now on and vice-versa

[pattifong]

I AM SO I just picked up the ACNH switch 😁

[Morkminster]

Do you do the full system transfer before or after this? Please follow up with that information, thanks!

[Soup-man]

Why can't they have Cloud saves as an option?

[instahawk]

This is cool to see I only own one nintendo switch so seeing the transfer in action is something i was curious about

[zimon]

Now we just need this for Splatoon 2 and Pokémon and then Switch Pro is more than welcome! :)

[mind_combatant]

cool, but not the type of transfer i actually want to know about: how does it go when transfering a single character?