16.0.0

The Switch 16.0.0 system update was released on February 21, 2023 (UTC). This Switch update was released for the following regions: ALL, CHN.

Security flaws fixed: <fill this in manually later, see the updatedetails page from the ninupdates-report page(s) once available for now>.

Change-log

Official ALL change-log:

• User nicknames that cannot be used will be replaced with “???” which can be updated from the profile settings.
• General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

System Titles

• New sysmodule ngc was added (0100000000000050).
• All sysmodules were updated (excluding stubbed-lbl).
• Most SystemData were updated, except for: Chinese and Korean dictionaries, Dictionary, AvatarImage, UrlBlackList, ControllerIcon, ApplicationBlackList, FunctionBlackList.
• Most applets were updated, except for: cabinet, controller, netConnect, swkbd, miiEdit, starter, maintenance.

NPDM changes (besides usual version-bump):

• boot2.ProdBoot now has access to ncm.
• friends no longer has access to csrng.
• nifm now has htc:nd access.
• nifm, ldn, ns: pl:u access was replaced with pl:s.
• ns now has access to ns:am2 and ns:su (for GetService).
• nim no longer has access to spl:.
• vi now has pl:u access.
• glue now has hosted-service pl:u access (moved from sdb) and access to svcCreateSharedMemory.
• fatal had access for the following removed: nvdrv:s, pl:u, vi:s.
• sdb had access for pl:u (hosted-service) and svcCreateSharedMemory removed.
• qlaunch, playerSelect, photoViewer, myPage: access to ngc:u was added.

The SafeMode bootpkgs KIP for PCV had "Default CPU Core" changed from 3 to 63.

See Also

System update report(s):

• [1]