How to Transfer an Island to Another Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch Console (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
In this article, you’ll learn how to transfer an entire island and all residents in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to another Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch console.
Important
The island will no longer be available to visit on the source console after transferring. If you would rather only transfer individual residents (not including the island's Resident Representative) to a separate island on the target console, see our steps on How to Transfer an Individual Resident to a New Island.
Any Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise save data is also transferred with this process. The DLC must be downloaded on the target console before the DLC content can be accessed.
Before you start
You must have both the source and target consoles available to transfer an island. Flight Mode must be turned off or be set with Wi-Fi enabled on both Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch consoles.
If there is already save data for Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the target console, it must be deleted from that Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch console in order to complete a transfer.
