How To Add Friends On Pokemon Shield

There are plenty of activities you lot tin do with friends in Pokémon Sword and Shield for Nintendo Switch. We'll bear witness you how to add friends, initiate trades, boxing each other, and more!

Finding Friends in Pokémon Sword and Shield

Pokémon Sword and Shield'due south friend system uses Nintendo Switch'south native friend list. Friends will automatically announced in the game's new in-menu multiplayer hub, Y-Comm. To access it, press the Y button on your right Joy-Con controller. And so, you can exercise but well-nigh anything, including trade Pokémon, swap League Cards, battle friends, and more.

Most importantly, there's a feed on the right that provides information about what other people online are up to. It also gives you the option to join them. People you've added to your Nintendo Switch friend's list will announced here with a purple smiley-confront next to their grapheme name.

You can add together a friend on Nintendo Switch in either of the following means:

Send a friend request using someone'due south friend code.
Accept a friend asking someone's sent to you lot.

You can as well search for friends locally using Bluetooth on your Nintendo Switch console.

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Once you've added a friend on Nintendo Switch, both of you lot must accept a Nintendo Online Subscription to play games online.

Where to Notice Your Friend Lawmaking

After following the Nintendo Switch setup procedure, you'll exist assigned a 12-digit friend code automatically. Friend codes start with "SW," and you'll see yours on your principal contour page or at the lesser-right of the "Add Friend" page.

To become to your contour page, use your left Joy-Con to navigate to your avatar at the meridian left of the home screen, and then press the A push on the right Joy-Con.

Next, select "Add Friend." At the lesser right, you lot'll see "Your Friend Code:" followed by "SW" and 12 digits.

Here, you can also manage any friend requests y'all've received, search for local users, employ your friend code to ship a friend invite, or check on requests you've sent previously.

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Managing Friend Requests

You can manage your friends' listing in the following ways:

Take a friend request: Any friend requests you receive announced in the "Received Friend Requests" menu, where you tin accept or reject them.

Ship a friend request: If you've received someone's friend lawmaking, you tin can select "Search with Friend Code" from the "Add Friend" menu, and and then input the code. A friend request will so be sent to that person. Whatever requests yous've sent can be managed in the "Sent Friend Requests" card under "Search with Friend Code."

Add together friends locally: This choice allows you to exchange friend requests with people who are in the same room. You don't even need an internet connexion—it searches for local consoles via Bluetooth. To add friends locally, though, you must be connected to a Wi-Fi network. If not, the request volition be saved on the console, and and then sent automatically the next time the console connects to the internet.

Friends in 'Pokémon Sword and Shield'

Once yous've added friends to your Nintendo Switch profile, you can communicate with and invite them to play Pokémon Sword and Shield via Y-Comm. To open it, just press the Y button on your right Joy-Con controller in-game.

There are several activities you tin can appoint in with friends, including trading or contesting Pokémon, participating in raids together, swapping Pokémon League Cards, and more.

Past default, the Y-Comm bill of fare doesn't distinguish your friends from other players. To modify this, select the magnifying glass next to "Search Stamps" at the bottom, and then select "Friends Just."

Now, your feed will just display the activities of friends you've added via your Nintendo Switch profile.