Hover over the YouTube icon on your Switch Home Menu, press the "+" button on your right Joy-Con, select "Software Update," and choose "Via the Internet."
The phrase typically refers to two distinct but related scenarios in the gaming community: the ability to run YouTube on "patched" hardware (units manufactured after mid-2018 that are resistant to soft-modding) and the use of modified "patched" YouTube apps for consoles that have been banned from Nintendo's official servers . youtube patched nintendo switch
The term stems from clickbait tutorials on YouTube. Content creators desperate for views uploaded videos claiming they had found secret software workarounds to hack patched Switch consoles. Many of these videos pointed users to the Switch’s built-in web browser or public DNS servers—frequently used to watch YouTube on consoles before the official app launched. Hover over the YouTube icon on your Switch