# the switch 2 jailbreak needed a button pusher

- Link: https://tacobout.online/2026/10/25/switch-2-jailbreak-button-pusher/
- Published: 2026-10-25T10:45:00-05:00
- Author: Hitch

[Sammy Hajhamid’s Switch 2 jailbreak writeup](https://pepsipu.com/blog/2026-10-switch2-jailbreak-ns2jb/)
has a very good supporting character: a Bluetooth light-switch gadget whose job 
is to press the power button after the console crashes.

![A white Bluetooth switch gadget with its lever extended above a docked Switch 
2’s power button.](https://i0.wp.com/tacobout.online/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/
body-button.jpg?resize=360%2C640&ssl=1)

The software can send controller inputs and receive video. Restarting the physical
machine still requires a small appliance to reach over and do the obvious thing.
Someone has to work the door.

There is an important correction attached to the joke. Hajhamid says the jailbreak
took roughly two weeks of substantial effort; the autonomous goal did not succeed.
This is not a story about typing one magic instruction and going to lunch.

The technical writeup is considerably more involved than the button pusher. The 
button pusher, however, knows its assignment.

_Images: hardware setup photograph and power-button demonstration still by Sammy
Hajhamid, via the linked writeup._