How to Manage and Delete Save Data on Your Nintendo Switch

Need to free up space on your Nintendo Switch? We guide you through the process.

Managing save data on each console can be an integral part of maintaining your Nintendo Switch and a headache of choosing which data to remove.

With the Switch, you may need to manage and delete save data more frequently than on other consoles. Luckily, managing your save data on Nintendo Switch is straightforward and can be done in a few simple steps.

If you need to start managing and deleting your save data, or are wondering why you need to do it in the first place, we can help.

Why you may need to manage and delete your stored data

Managing and deleting your game’s save data, and some games themselves, is an unfortunate side effect of some of the Nintendo Switch’s biggest flaws.

One of those shortcomings is the low base storage of the console itself. Since the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 have around 800GB of base storage, the Nintendo Switch’s 32GB doesn’t hold up very well to the increasing size of modern games.

And while most Nintendo Switch games are drastically smaller than Xbox and PlayStation titles, games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild still require around 13.4GB of storage space to play, which is almost 40% of the total total memory of your console for only one game.

Managing and deleting your Nintendo Switch data can become essential as your console’s base storage slowly fills up.

Alternatively, problems with your console itself may cause saved data to become unloadable or corrupt; In this scenario, you may need to reset your Nintendo Switch or even try to fix it.

How to manage and delete your Switch Save data

Now that you may need to manage and delete saved data on your Nintendo Switch, let’s look at how to do it.

Follow the steps below to manage and delete your save data on Nintendo Switch:

• From the home screen of your Nintendo Switch, select system settings.
• Navigate through the options presented and select data management.
• Scroll down to the last option for data management and select Delete save data.

• Enter your parental control PIN when prompted; Otherwise, select any title you want to manage or delete save data for.
• You can get an option to do this Save data for delete a specific user on your switch or to Delete all save data for this software. Just choose the option that suits you best.

After selecting a delete option, your Nintendo Switch will permanently remove any save data you have for the selected game.

Make the most of your Nintendo Switch maintenance

Managing and deleting save data on your Nintendo Switch is a great way to preserve your console’s storage capacity despite its limitations.

To further maintain your console, you can also ensure that your Nintendo Switch is fully updated to avoid issues affecting your gameplay.