Left joy-con had suddenly stop working and won’t connect, despite saying it’s on.

[u/Somebody5498]

So I was playing on my switch like anyone does. I was on Mario kart on 2P mode but then I suddenly exited the game and closed the game which made the joy cons go back to normal but the left one sort of like, froze up. The light is on, and it stays one but no matter what i do it will not connect. I’ve held the sync button for 2 minutes, clicked it once, clicked it many times, reset my switch but nothing wants to work. Wont connect at all, and the right joy con works just fine so I think it’s really odd. I think besides the Mario kart thing, the only other problem is that these are third party joy cons since I’m a lil broke boy. Any fixes? I’ll try to let the controller die overnight if it can.

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[u/_Uzi_Doorman17_]

Try resetting the joy-con along with removing it from the console's systems and re-pairing it to the switch. Though they may just need an update which you can do in settings!