ACNH: Controls
In this chapter of the guide to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you fill a description of controls on Nintendo Switch.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a simple game that doesn't require great skills from the player. In fact, even a grade schooler should be able to handle even the most demanding of tasks available in the game.
Button | Function |
![]() | Save and the option to exit the game |
![]() | A button that is useful in some menu windows (for example in Nook Miles menu) |
![]() | Character movement |
![]() | Camera movement (when not inside rooms, it works only vertically - there are three positions in which you can set the camera) |
![]() | Circular tool selection screen |
![]() | Previous tool |
![]() | Next tool |
![]() | Hide active tool |
![]() | Open Nook Phone menu |
![]() | Choose emotion / reaction |
![]() | Say something (useful mostly in multiplayer and when making screenshots) |
X | Equipment menu |
Y | Pick up an item / Fill a hole |
![]() | Cancel |
![]() | Perform action with the held item / speak to person / enter room |
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