Nintendo Switch 2 adds a feature that I want on basically every device I own: battery charging settings that limit your juice and reduce "deterioration"

A Switch 2 console plugged in for charging
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Nintendo has lifted the veil on another new Switch 2 feature that's looking like a game-changer for the new console, and one I need pretty much every piece of handheld electronics to start copying stat. You'll be able to cap your systꦇem's charge at 90% to help reduce the degradation of your battery over time.

As revealed in a new post on the Nintendo Today app, when you toggle this option on, "the Nintendo Switch 2 system stops charging when it reaches about 90% remaining battery. Pausing th💟e charge at around 90% reduces deterioration to the battery. If 'Stop Charging Around 90%' is turned on, the charging speed will slow down around 90%."

Charging to 100% capacity every time is known to reduce the maximওum charge of a battery over time, and that's true for pretty much any rechargeable device.

Options to cap your charge at a slightly lower maximum are becomiꦺng increasingly common on devices like iPhones and Android phones, as well as certain laptops, but it's🍒 not yet universal.

Nintendo has been reticent to make direct comparis🤡ons between the battery life♋ of Switch 1 and Switch 2, because real-world performance is so dependent on the🌄 games and applications you're using. The official estimates put battery life anywhere between two and six-and-a-half hours, with the🉐 systems requiring around three hours to fully charge in sleep mode.

Whateve꧑r the Switch 2 battery life ends up looking like at launch, this feature should g♒o a long way to ensuring the system keeps holding a charge for years to come.

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Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these day﷽s you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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