By ssf1991 on January 7, 2025

When Nintendo normally releases an update for the Nintendo Switch's firmware, it results in a version number change and, at the very least, a handful of changes that had been made confirmed via patch notes. For these updates to finish, the console is required to reboot itself. However, this isn't always the case for updates.

For example, Nintendo has decided to release another "rebootless" update tonight. These don't require the console to reboot to download, and they generally don't do anything significant to the firmware. In fact, Nintendo doesn't even release patch notes for these. That said, you can see a tweet relaying what the rebootless update did change down below.

[Nintendo Switch Firmware Update]

A rebootless update for 19.0.1 was released.

The bad words lists were reshuffled (possibly to reduce false positives), and many new words were added to the Russian list.

There were no other changes.

— OatmealDome (@OatmealDome) January 7, 2025