A new Nintendo Switch bug seems to have emerged over the weekend, causing consoles to autonomously take screenshots, seemingly at random, without the user having pressed the screenshot button.
Documented by multiple users on Reddit and the Nintendo support forum (and experienced by Kotaku UK), the glitch reportedly activates the screenshot function – with its associated click sound – at seemingly random intervals, even waking the console from sleep mode to do so.
Most reporting the issue have said that the problem began after installing Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition, although the problem is not confined to that game once it starts.
Interestingly, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this problem associated with Minecraft on Switch – the issue seemed to pop up during an official preview livestream back in April (starting at 3.30), affecting both the game and the Switch home menu.
Some have reported that a hard reset (performed by holding the Power button for 10 seconds, then pressing it once more to turn the console back on) can fix the issue.
We have contacted Nintendo, Mojang and console port developer 4J for comment.
Joe Skrebels is IGN’s UK News Editor, and he’s taken hundreds of Minecraft Switch screenshots, but only because his new cloud-spearing mountain house is so beautiful. Follow him on Twitter.