Let’s put ourselves in situation. You’ve invited some friends over and you’ve been playing Mario Kart , Mario Party , Overcooked or any other multiplayer title with a few controllers. And between when the pizza arrives, when you clear the table and get organized, one of the Joy-Cons disappears from the room. You and your friends start looking for it, the pizza gets cold and you finally find it, but you’ve wasted half a wonderful hour. Well, the Switch has a native functionality to find your controls that not many people know about and that has now gone viral thanks to a TikTok video.
So you can locate your Joy-Cons in a matter of seconds
Well, that was an example, but more often than not, you put the console in the Dock to charge and completely forget which drawer you left the Joy-Cons in. Nintendo is usually quite detailed in its products. It is not the first time that details of software – and even hardware – have been discovered once the console has been on the market for years. And in this regard, the user outofthebox_youtube has published a short video on his TikTok account showing how you can locate your Joy-Cons that are lost around your room, whether in a drawer, between the sofa cushions or in the cat’s litter box. . If you like to mess around with your devices, chances are you already know about this feature, but if you’ve never noticed its existence, pay attention.
As outofthebox explains in their video, what you need to do is unlock the console without controllers . Press the power button quickly and then tap the screen three times to unlock the tablet. Once in the Nintendo Switch menu, tap on the ‘ Controllers‘ icon, which is located in the row of round icons.
Within this menu, you will have several options, which, surely, you have used at some time, such as changing the fastening system to separate the Joy-Cons into two different controls. Well, you will have to click on the second option, which is called ‘Search Controls‘.
Within this new tab, there will be a list of all the controls that you have recently connected to your Nintendo Switch. All you have to do is press on each Joy-Con – it will turn translucent while it is not connected – and then it will begin to vibrate if said control is close to the console. Thanks to this trick, you will be able to locate the pair of controls in less than two minutes. Without a doubt, a great detail on the part of Nintendo.
Does it work with the Pro Controller?
If you’re wondering, this hack should work with the official Nintendo Pro Controller as well . However, in our tests, it did not work with a generic Pro controller . Even so, if you have one of those unofficial controls, we recommend that you do the test beforehand. That way, if you ever lose your controller, you’ll know whether or not you can use this little trick to locate it.