Animal Crossing: New Horizons' 2nd summer update introduced a handful of new features to the game, including a weekly summer fireworks festival, the ability to fall on your face, and save backups. Yous'll need to have a paid Nintendo Switch Online subscription to take advantage of the latter, and it functions a little differently from the typical cloud saves offered through the service. If you lot're unsure how the process works, here's how to support your Animal Crossing: New Horizons relieve data.

How To Support Your Salve Data

Afterwards installing New Horizons' 1.4.0 update, you lot'll see Backups - Not Set beneath the Settings pick in the lower lefthand corner of the title screen. Press the Minus push to admission the Settings menu, then select Island Backup from the list of options that Tom Nook presents yous to brainstorm the backup process.

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Once Isle Backup has been selected, Nook will emphasize that this backup part is only intended to be used if your Nintendo Switch is lost or has been damaged. He'll then present you with options to Enable island fill-in or Listen to explanation. Select the former to enable salvage backups; select the latter to acquire more than about the process and its requirements.

Island Backup Requirements

In order to apply the Isle Fill-in role, you'll starting time need to accept a paid Nintendo Switch Online membership. Private subscriptions for the service run for $iv USD for one month, $8 USD for three months, and $20 USD for one year. Nintendo also offers an annual Family Plan that costs $35 USD and covers up to eight Nintendo Accounts, fifty-fifty across multiple systems.

On top of that, you volition naturally need to take a physical or digital copy of Creature Crossing: New Horizons, forth with salve data for the game. You'll besides demand to be connected to the internet for your data to be backed up.

How Is Salvage Data Backed Upwards?

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Later y'all enable the Island Backup function, your relieve data will automatically be uploaded periodically, so you won't need to do anything else. Backups will occur when you're non playing the game, even if your organisation is in slumber mode (and then long equally you're connected to the net).

You can see when your data was last backed up on the title screen. The fourth dimension and appointment of the latest backup will be displayed in the lower left corner of the screen, beneath the Settings option.

How To Restore Salve Data

As Nintendo has been insistent in emphasizing, you can just restore your New Horizons save data if your Switch is lost or has been damaged, so you'll need to take a repaired or replacement system (forth with a copy of New Horizons) before you can recover your save. The user who first enabled island backups will need to be the ane to restore the relieve data.

How To Transfer Save Information To Another Switch

At present, New Horizons does not allow you to transfer your save data from 1 Switch to another. All the same, Nintendo has previously confirmed that it is working on a office that will let y'all to transfer your New Horizons save to a dissimilar console. That does non yet have a release date, but information technology is slated to arrive in a future update.

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