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Nintendo will hold onto your Switch Online cloud saves for 6 months after you let your subscription lapse

by rawmeatcowboy
25 September 2018
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We finally have a 100% definitive answer on just how long your cloud saves will stick around on Nintendo's servers if you let your Switch Online subscription lapse. IGN received a statement from a Nintendo spokesperson clearly stating the situation.

"If a Nintendo Switch Online membership expires, users won’t be able to access their Save Data Cloud backups. However, Nintendo will allow users who resubscribe within 180 days to access their previous Save Data Cloud backups."

Now that's a pretty healthy amount of time for Nintendo to hang onto those saves. Hopefully that's long enough for even the slowest of customers to re-up their Switch Online subscription and recover their cloud saves.

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