# Nintendo Shares 13-Step Procedure Detailing How To Replace Your Switch Joy-Con Battery

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/nintendo-shares-13-step-procedure-detailing-how-to-replace-your-switch-joy-con-battery/
- Published: 2026-07-17T06:55:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-24T07:16:11+00:00
- Original publisher: Nintendo Life
- Original article: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/07/nintendo-shares-13-step-procedure-detailing-how-to-replace-your-switch-joy-con-battery
- Topics: Art, Culture, Entertainment, Europe, Gaming

## Key points

- Nintendo now offers an official Joy-Con battery replacement guide.
- The process has 13 steps and requires a dedicated kit.
- It anticipates EU replaceable-battery rules from 2027.

## Summary

Nintendo has published a 13-step official guide for replacing the battery in certain Switch Joy-Con controllers, using its Battery Replacement Kit. The move matters because it prepares the company’s European hardware for forthcoming rules intended to make consumer-device batteries replaceable.

The kit includes a HAC-006(-01) replacement battery, a PH00 Phillips screwdriver, tweezers, a plastic spudger and double-sided tape. Nintendo provides photos and videos alongside instructions covering disassembly, battery and tape replacement, antenna positioning and reassembly; the EU regulation takes effect in 2027, when Nintendo also plans to stop selling the original Switch in Europe.

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