How To Use Kickstand On Switch

One of the first toys I call up getting every bit a Christmas nowadays was a wind-upward figure skating Barbie. Yous'd accept her delicate little waist, twist her a couple of times, and she'd do spins and twirls on the "ice," which was actually just a moving stand up on a platform.

The first time I went to wind her upward, I twisted her so hard that her legs popped off her torso and I was left with the prettiest legless figure skater in all the land (don't feel that bad for Barbie, though — she went on to be displayed on my shelf equally a mutant Barbie that could pass through walls like Kitty Pryde from X-Men).

While the Barbie incident was tragic (and kinda scarring?), information technology was unfortunately the beginning of a long, long era of toys, tech, and gadgets that I would accidentally exist too crude with in one area or another, despite instructions often telling me that I can exist a bit more than aggressive with whatever object I had in my hands.

Once I snapped the arm off a very expensive tripod. 1 fourth dimension I shattered a favourite iPhone lens past forcing my hand and screwing it on too tightly. In one case I broke a phone case attempting to pull my iPhone from its tight confines, and while information technology's non necessarily in the same vein every bit accidentally snapping/breaking little parts of bigger things…

Recall the fourth dimension I shattered an entire iMac on the concrete floor while I was in course?

Because I do.

Despite my terrible luck with tech and accessories of any shape or size, I was over the moon to open my new Nintendo Switch with my swain. Equally we started putting the panel together, he handed me the portable screen and asked me to find where to put the game.

Information technology took me a couple of seconds to realize that the kickstand was more than just a kickstand — it is the encompass for the space to add whatever microSD card you wanted to utilise for additional storage, and then getting it open was important, obviously.

I dug my fingernails under the bottom of the stand and applied a bit of pull. Null. I tried once more with the flesh of my thumb. Cypher. I foolishly used my lower teeth to try and pry it open. Nothing.

The Nintendo Switch kickstand is tough to open up on the first get, so if you call up y'all're going to snap it off your device, I wouldn't blame you lot. I was and then careful the starting time time that even afterward everything else had been set up, my boyfriend and I were still sitting there trying to open the kickstand without snapping it off and sending it clear beyond the room or into my eye.

Eventually nosotros ended up taking a Loonie (sad to all you non-Canadians out at that place…) and he used the edge along the base of operations of the kickstand to gently popular it open.

TL;DR

I suck at being gentle with things — mainly tech — and I idea the Nintendo Switch kickstand was going to shatter into a thousand pieces with a picayune pressure level, simply information technology'southward an unbelievably well designed product and it'southward sturdy plenty to withstand even the virtually aggressive tiny hands.

(i.e. my tiny, aggressive easily...)

Exercise y'all accidentally destroy things, also?

Are y'all someone who'southward notorious for breaking off little bits and parts from certain toys and accessories? Exercise you take a Lenny from Of Mice and Men approach to handling your gear here and at that place?

When you lot were setting upwardly your Switch, did you experience the same fashion I did, or did you actually snap the stand up off?

Let me know what you remember in the comments downwardly below!

Cella writes for iMore on social and photography. She's a true crime enthusiast, bestselling horror writer, lipstick collector, buzzkill, and Sicilian. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram: @hellorousseau