ACNH: Controls
In this chapter of the guide to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you fill a description of controls on Nintendo Switch.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a simple game that doesn't require great skills from the player. In fact, even a grade schooler should be able to handle even the most demanding of tasks available in the game.
Button | Function |
![]() | Save and the option to exit the game |
![]() | A button that is useful in some menu windows (for example in Nook Miles menu) |
![]() | Character movement |
![]() | Camera movement (when not inside rooms, it works only vertically - there are three positions in which you can set the camera) |
![]() | Circular tool selection screen |
![]() | Previous tool |
![]() | Next tool |
![]() | Hide active tool |
![]() | Open Nook Phone menu |
![]() | Choose emotion / reaction |
![]() | Say something (useful mostly in multiplayer and when making screenshots) |
X | Equipment menu |
Y | Pick up an item / Fill a hole |
![]() | Cancel |
![]() | Perform action with the held item / speak to person / enter room |
- Animal Crossing New Horizons Guide
- Animal Crossing New Horizons: Game guide
- Animal Crossing New Horizons: Basics
- ACNH: Beginner's Guide
- ACNH: Event calendar - list
- ACNH: Expanding the house - costs, options
- ACNH: Hybrid flowers - how to make them?
- ACNH: Bells, Nook Miles - currencies in the game
- ACNH: Crafting Guide
- ACNH: Desert islands, travelling
- ACNH: One console, many people
- ACNH: Controls
- ACNH: Deleting the island - can I start over? How to delete?
- ACNH: Summer update (1.3.0) - what's new?
- ACNH: Sea & Marine creatures - list, prices
- Animal Crossing New Horizons: Basics
- Animal Crossing New Horizons: Game guide
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