> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://averagetechnerds.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Nintendo Is Ending Google and Apple Sign-In on January 26. Set a Password Now - URL: https://averagetechnerds.com/nintendo-account-google-apple-sign-in-ending/ - Published: 2026-11-13T04:06:52.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-13T04:06:52.000Z - Description: From January 26, 2027 you can’t sign in to a Nintendo Account with Google or Apple. If you never set a password, here’s how to set one, and why you need it even for a passkey. - Author: Victor - Tags: News, Console Gaming If you’ve always signed in to your Nintendo Account with a Google or Apple button, that button goes away on January 26, 2027\. After that, it’s your email and a Nintendo Account password, or a passkey. If you never set a password, set one now, while your Google or Apple sign-in still works. You’ll need it for a passkey anyway. Bottom line up front ## So what does this mean for the *Average TechNerd*? Take five minutes this week. Go to accounts.nintendo.com, sign in the way you always do, and set a password. Then add a passkey on your phone if you want the easy sign-in back. Nintendo’s notice is only about signing in. It doesn’t mention your games, your saves or your Switch Online membership. At a glance What's ending signing in to, or creating, a Nintendo Account with a Google or Apple account When January 26, 2027, and Nintendo says the exact end time may slip What you need instead your email or Sign-In ID with a password, or a passkey Passkeys work on iPhone and iPad on version 16 or newer, Macs on macOS 13 or newer, Android 9 or newer Also ending the My Nintendo Platinum Points mission for linking a Google account Your games and purchases not mentioned; the notice only covers sign-in ## What exactly is changing? From January 26, you can’t use a Google or Apple account to sign in to a Nintendo Account, and you can’t create a new one that way. That’s straight from [Nintendo’s support page](https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a%5Fid/71943?ref=averagetechnerds.com). Nintendo adds that the exact end time could slip, depending on how its system work goes. It hasn’t said why. It’s not the first step, though. Nintendo’s iPhone and iPad apps already dropped Google and Apple sign-in, to follow Apple’s App Store rules, and only take an email and password. ## Do you need to do anything? Only if you sign in with Google or Apple. And even then, maybe not straight away. Nintendo says that if you’re already signed in on a device, you may not have to sign in again. The trouble comes later. Get a new phone, reinstall an app or sign out once, and the Google or Apple button won’t be there. If you never set a Nintendo password, you’ll have to make one from the sign-in page with Forgot your password?, and that only works if you can still get into the email on the account. Better to sort it now, while your usual sign-in still works. ## How do you set a password if you never had one? Go to accounts.nintendo.com and sign in with Google or Apple, like always. Then go to Sign-in and security settings, choose Password, then Edit, and select Forgot your password?. Nintendo sends a verification code to the email on your account, and you set a new password from there. That’s also worth a look while you’re there. Check which email address the account uses. If it’s an old address you can’t get into anymore, Nintendo says to contact its support to change it, and that’s much easier before January than after. ## Can you use a passkey instead? Yes, but you still want a password. A passkey lets you sign in with your phone’s face or fingerprint unlock, the way the Google and Apple buttons felt. To add one, go to Sign-in and security settings, then Passkeys, then Edit, and choose to register a new passkey. Here’s the catch. Nintendo’s own steps ask for your Nintendo Account password during setup. So if you only ever used Google or Apple, set the password first. Nintendo also says to keep your email and password up to date even with a passkey, because that’s how you get back in if you lose the phone. One more thing: set the passkey up on the phone or Mac you’ll actually sign in with, since that’s where it lives. If you’re on a Windows PC or an older phone, you’re out of luck there, because Nintendo’s list doesn’t cover them. That’s one more reason to have the password. ## Does this affect your games or your Switch? Nothing in Nintendo’s notice says it does. The notice is only about how you sign in, and it doesn’t mention games, purchases, saves or Switch Online. You keep the same Nintendo Account; you just sign in to it with a password or a passkey. The one other thing that ends is a small one. My Nintendo had a Platinum Points mission for linking your Google account, and it goes away too. Do you sign in to your Nintendo Account with Google or Apple, or did you set a password from the start? Based on Nintendo’s support pages on the end of Google and Apple sign-in, passkeys, and signing in from iOS apps (US and UK), as of November 12, 2026.