Parents’ Information on Sharing Photos
Nintendo 3DS family systems allow you to share photos in two ways: over a local wireless connection with other system owners or by saving the photos to an SD Card. Nintendo 3DS family systems cannot display images created on other devices (such as cell phones or digital cameras). Only photos created with the Nintendo 3DS Camera can be used on the system.
Nintendo 3DS Camera
The system comes with an interactive digital camera offering 7 different "lenses" that can manipulate your photos in fun and creative ways, as well as manual settings that allow you to take more control over the look of your images. In addition to being saved directly on the system, these photos can also be saved to an SD Card. Whether the photos are on the system or an SD Card, they can only be shared wirelessly with other system owners. You can block the ability to wirelessly exchange photos with others by setting up Parental Controls.
SD Cards
You can save photos to an SD Card and transfer them to another Nintendo 3DS family system. You can also use your SD Card on any other device that can read images from an SD Card, such as a home computer. There they can be edited and uploaded to the Internet or printed without the permission of the photo's creator.
Printing Photos
You cannot print images directly from a Nintendo 3DS family system, but once saved to an SD Card, the photos can be printed from another device that reads SD Card images (such as a home computer) and is attached to a printer.
