Granted, we were trying to navigate around Slack and Twitter on our Android phone with the Joy-Con’s control stick, which is not recommended regardless of what console’s controller you’ve attached to your phone. Once it was connected, though, we found it to be not the most ideal controller for those devices. We tested out pairing the notorious left Joy-Con to a Samsung Galaxy S7 as well as a MacBook Air, and found that it syncs with relative ease. The left Joy-Con shows up under Bluetooth preferences, and it even has a handy, specific label.
After unhooking one of the two controllers from the Switch, one need only press the sync button on the top of the Joy-Con to get the controller looking for a new home. That includes not just the more conventional Pro controller, but the tiny Joy-Con controllers as well.Īll it takes to hook up the Joy-Cons is an active Bluetooth connection on a compatible device. The Nintendo Switch’s controllers work on a variety of other platforms, including Macs, Windows and even mobile phones.
