Camera
Nook Miles
Critterpedia
DIY Recipes
Nook Shopping Catalog
Island Creator
Custom Designs
Map
Chat Log
Passport
Call Resident
Best Friends List
Rescue Service
Happy Home Network
Room Sketch
List of NookPhone Apps
Mystery Island Tour Guide
How to Unlock Reactions
How to Send Letters and Postcards
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Party Play | Local Multiplayer
Online Play
What Can You Do Online?
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The NookPhone in Animal Crossing: New Horizons offers a variety of apps that unlocks different features. For more information on what the different NookPhone apps are and how to unlock them, be sure to read this guide!
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| Unlock Condition: | Available from the beginning |
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Take pictures of your adventures on the island with the Camera! Feel free to make matching faces with other villagers and take pictures together.
| Unlock Condition: | Available from the beginning |
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Nook Miles lets you earn miles by completing certain challenges.
Use your miles to pay for your loan, exchange them for special rewards at Resident Services, or access to certain useful features!
Nook Mileage Program Activities & Rewards List
| Unlock Condition: | After catching your first bug or fish |
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After giving the first bug or fish you caught to Tom Nook, Critterpedia will be available. View details about the critter such as their seasonality and current active hours!
 List of Bugs |
 List of Fish |
 List of Sea Creatures |
| Unlock Condition: | Available from the beginning |
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Check the recipes you have and the recipes that you've already made here! Take note that you can't actually make the recipes through the app. For that, you'd need a 'work table'.
List of DIY Recipes | How to Get DIY Crafting Recipes
| Unlock Condition: | Purchase 100 Items through Nook Shopping at the Nook Stop |
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You will unlock this app after purchasing 100 items through Nook Shopping at the Nook Stop! Through this app, you can view and order special goods or items from your catalog anywhere!
How to Get the Nook Shopping App
| Unlock Condition: | Island Reaches 3-Star Rating & K.K. Slider Visits |
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This app will let you modify the island. This includes modifying the rivers, cliffs, roads, and more! You can even create paths that can be seen on the map!
How to Use the Island Designer App
| Unlock Condition: | Available from the beginning |
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Dress yourself up with your own designs using the Custom Designs app! The designs you make in the 32x32 grid can be used for your clothes, the ground, or even face paint.
For 800 Nook Miles, the Custom Design Editor Pro can be unlocked!
| Unlock Condition: | Available from the beginning |
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The map is a useful app that shows you where each villager lives along with any other useful buildings on the island. Hover over each icon to see what the building is.
The player's Dream Address* can be viewed here if they have it enabled.
*Requires the ver 1.4.0 update.
| Unlock Condition: | First time playing online! |
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Read messages sent during online play through the Chat Log.
How to Play Online Multiplayer | Do You Have to Pay for Online?
| Unlock Condition: | Available from the beginning |
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Adjust your profile and make changes to your photo, comment, and title! On top of that, the Passport app will also display your name, birthday, and registration date.
How To Make A Passport | Passport Title List
| Unlock Condition: | Available on a second player's arrival |
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Use the Call Resident app to engage in local multiplayer with up to four players!
How to Use Party Play | Playing on One Switch
| Unlock Condition: | Visit a friend's* island for the first time |
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*Friend added in the Switch user's profile.
Let your friends know that you're online! Add best friends and send them messages through this app. Being best friends with other players also has additional in-game features!
How to Add Best Friends
| Unlock Condition: | Available from the beginning |
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If you ever get lost on the island, you can use up some of your miles in order to get transported straight to your home.
How to Use the Rescue Service App
| Unlock Condition: | Available from the Happy Home Paradise DLC |
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Visit old clients to see how they're doing, or remodel their vacation homes, you can also share your designs online and get in touch with other flourishing designes such as yourself!
How to Use the Happy Home Network App
| Unlock Condition: | Available from the Happy Home Paradise DLC Design 33 vacation homes |
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Room Sketch allows you to draft a room design and save it for later use. You can just copy and paste your design onto a new villager's vacation home!
How to Unlock the Room Sketch App
List of NookPhone Apps and How to Unlock Them
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You can also get the Room Sketch app from the DLC; I'm unsure how you get it exactly, BUT it's either from donating enough materials to the bin or getting it a few days after you technically "complete" the main story of the DLC.