If you would rather only transfer individual residents (not including the island resident representative) to a separate island on the target system, see our steps on How to Transfer an Individual Resident to a New Island. The island will no longer be available to visit on the source Nintendo Switch system after transferring.If there is already save data for Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the target system, it must be deleted in order to complete a transfer.To complete the transfer, please re-link your Nintendo Account to a User on the source system and complete the process. If you recently transferred your user and save data to a new system, please note that island save data will remain on the original (source) system.Follow our steps on How to Back Up and Restore Island Save Data.

If you have lost access to the source Nintendo Switch system, but you enabled island backup, you can restore your backup data on your replacement system.

Local wireless communication must be enabled on both systems.

Access to both the source Nintendo Switch system and the target Nintendo Switch system is required to transfer an island.

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