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How to stop your Nintendo Switch from taking over your television
How do you match your Nintendo Switch to your TV Power state so HDMI CEC stops making your life miserable?
You aren’t imagining things. If your Nintendo Switch is in its dock and in Sleep Mode, and you wake your Switch by pairing a controller or touching one of the connected Joy-Cons, the console will turn on your television and change the input to whatever the Switch is set to. This feature is called HDMI CEC, and is included in most modern televisions. It’s the same feature that immediately sets your Switch into Sleep Mode if you turn off the television while the console is in its dock. Cool, huh?
Actually no, it’s not always cool. Accidentally waking the controller when you’re watching something else on television or when you’re trying to avoid waking everyone up in the house at 4 a.m. can cause some issues. Here’s how to disable the feature so it never causes you any more problems!
Buried near the bottom of your Switch settings, you’ll find TV Settings. Near the bottom of th…