Animal Crossing: New Horizons' server is down for maintenance (update)

By Rebecca Spear
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Animal Crossing New Horizons airport (Image credit: iMore)

What you need to know

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons is currently undergoing scheduled server maintenance.
  • This mainly affects online multiplayer activities.
  • Right now players are unable to visit other islands or send gifts to friends via online play.
  • It's unclear when things will be back to normal.

Update April 22, 2020: Update 1.2.0 was released for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Upon downloading it, players can resume online multiplayer activities.

If you're having trouble visiting a friend's island, hosting someone on your island, or sending something to a buddy right now in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, that's because the game is currently undergoing scheduled server maintenance.

When attempting to do anything that requires online connections, players receive this error:

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Acnh Mainenance (Image credit: iMore)

It's unclear when the Animal Crossing: New Horizons online multiplayer options will return to normal. Our guess is that it won't take very long, but we'll keep an eye out on things and update this post when that happens.

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Rebecca Spear
Rebecca Spear
Gaming Editor

Gaming aficionado Rebecca Spear is iMore's dedicated gaming editor with a focus on Nintendo Switch and iOS gaming. You’ll never catch her without her Switch or her iPad Air handy. If you’ve got a question about Pokémon, The Legend of Zelda, or just about any other Nintendo series check out her guides to help you out. Rebecca has written thousands of articles in the last six years including hundreds of extensive gaming guides, previews, and reviews for both Switch and Apple Arcade. She also loves checking out new gaming accessories like iPhone controllers and has her ear to the ground when it comes to covering the next big trend.