Information for Parents
Explore Nintendo's how-to guides about our consoles, setting parental controls on your child's gaming console, software rating information, accounts for kids, and enhancing your gameplay with amiibo. Nintendo offers a wide variety of tools to help parents on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Wii and Wii mini, and the Nintendo 3DS family of consoles.
Setting up parental controls is easy, and is restricted by a 4-8 digit PIN which you can use to make changes to the settings at any time. If your PIN is ever forgotten, resetting it is easy with our online tool. If you have the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls smart device app installed and linked, you can also check the parental controls PIN for your Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch console at any time.
