{"id":617741,"date":"2026-03-24T00:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/ios-16-lets-users-pair-switch-joy-cons-or-pro-controllers-to-their-apple-devices"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:38:59","slug":"ios-16-lets-users-pair-switch-joy-cons-or-pro-controllers-to-their-apple-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ios-16-lets-users-pair-switch-joy-cons-or-pro-controllers-to-their-apple-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 16 lets users pair Switch Joy-Cons or Pro Controllers to their Apple devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ios-16-lets-users-pair-switch-joy-cons-or-pro-controllers-to-their-apple-devices.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Users of an Apple device (well, most of them) can now rejoice at the fact they will soon be able to pair their Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons and Pro Controllers to their phone. Apple&#8217;s iOS 16 was unveiled on June 6, and beta testing via the Apple Developer Program shortly followed suit, which is how the discovery was made.<\/p>\n<p>This is perhaps especially good news for those who are accustomed to using the Delta emulator on their phone, which lets you play GameBoy and Nintendo games on your iOS device. Delta users will now be able to pair the Switch controllers with their phone, and use it to play various emulated titles from Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p>One person participating in the beta, an iOS developer named Riley Testut, shared their discovery on Twitter. They even showed off how they were able to play Super Smash Bros. using the Delta emulator and connected controllers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/ios-16-lets-users-pair-switch-joy-cons-or-pro-controllers-to-their-apple-devices\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/ios-16-lets-users-pair-switch-joy-cons-or-pro-controllers-to-their-apple-devices\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of an Apple device (well, most of them) can now rejoice at the fact they will soon be able to pair their Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons and Pro Controllers to their phone. Apple&#8217;s iOS 16 was unveiled on June 6, and beta testing via the Apple Developer Program shortly followed suit, which is how the discovery was made. This is perhaps especially good news for those who are accustomed to using the Delta emulator on their phone, which lets you play GameBoy and Nintendo games on your iOS device. Delta users will now be able to pair the Switch controllers with their phone, and use it to play various emulated titles from Nintendo. One person participating in the beta, an iOS developer named Riley Testut,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ios-16-lets-users-pair-switch-joy-cons-or-pro-controllers-to-their-apple-devices\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1387,159,120,13],"class_list":["post-617741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-mobile","tag-nintendo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>iOS 16 lets users pair Switch Joy-Cons or Pro Controllers to their Apple devices | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Users of an Apple 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