Nintendo's retro controllers now work on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac - Yahoo Finance

At WWDC 2022 earlier this year, Apple announced a clump of gaming improvements rolling retired with iOS 16, including enactment for Nintendo's Joy-Con and Pro controllers. Now, you'll besides beryllium capable to usage Nintendo's modernized retro gamepads with your iPhones, iPads, Mac computers and adjacent Apple TVs. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has discovered that iOS 16.1 and tvOS 16.1 supports Nintendo's SNES-style Switch controllers, a modern mentation of their classical counterparts with wireless transportation and a USB-C larboard for charging.

In his tweet with a video demonstrating the capability, Troughton-Smith said helium believes that the Apple platforms present enactment the N64 and NES controllers for the Switch, arsenic well. MacStories ran its ain tests and confirmed that the SNES-style controllers besides enactment with the iPad OS 16.1 and macOS Ventura. In addition, the work was capable to usage the modern N64 controller with Apple's devices. The gamepads amusement up successful Bluetooth settings erstwhile they're pairing mode similar immoderate different device.

The Apple App Store doesn't enactment video crippled emulators, truthful you'll inactive person to occurrence up your Switch to play your games for the console and its subscription service. But arsenic AppleInsider notes, you tin usage these gamepads for the Apple Arcade and different supported titles successful the App Store.