Animal Crossing: New Horizons Summer Update Server Maintenance Happening Tonight

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Nintendo has announced server maintenance for Animal Crossing: New Horizons tonight to prepare for the incoming significant Summer Update adding Swimming, Sea Creatures, Pascal, and more!

We received an in-game notification on our Nintendo Switch while playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons alerting us of the incoming maintenance set to begin shortly at 6PM Pacific Time / 9PM Eastern Time.

More complete details of the maintenance can be found on the official Network Maintenance Information / Operational Status page on Nintendo’s official website, which we’ll cover below.

According to the status page, both Animal Crossing: New Horizons network services and the NookLink service within the Nintendo Switch Online mobile application will be down for maintenance for one hour beginning at 6PM Pacific Time / 9PM Eastern Time and ending at 7PM Pacific Time / 10PM Eastern Time.

UPDATE: The maintenance and update are now both complete! You can find the Full Version 1.3.0 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Summer Update Patch Notes: Swimming, Sea Creatures, Pascal right over here.

We’ve included all of the important and relevant information below:

Future maintenance schedule

Nintendo Switch Online app

• NookLink

During the maintenance window, all network services will be unavailable.

Date and time

From Thursday, July 2, 2020 6 :00 PM – Thursday, July 2, 2020 7 :00 PM Pacific Time

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

• Certain Network Services

During the maintenance window, all network services will be unavailable.

Date and time

From From Thursday, July 2, 2020 6 :00 PM – Thursday, July 2, 2020 7 :00 PM Pacific Time

This scheduled maintenance lines up perfectly with the expected 6PM Pacific Time / 9PM Eastern Time release timing for the Summer Update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons that we discussed in another article earlier this week.

So get ready for the Summer Update to arrive on your Nintendo Switch shortly when the online maintenance begins and enjoy all of the new Summer Update features! If you need help updating, check out our release timing article.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons News Update