On Solana an NFT is a token with a supply of one, plus metadata pointing at an image or a file.
What the app can do today
The NFTs tab opens on Mine — your own collectibles, grouped by collection — with Buy and Sell sections beside it backed by public listing data, so you can browse collections, check a floor price and list something you hold.
Sending arrives in the next update
The currently shipping version cannot yet transfer an NFT to another address. The next app update adds sending for regular and compressed NFTs — open a collectible in the Mine tab, enter the recipient, and confirm. Programmable NFTs (pNFTs), whose collections enforce their own transfer rules, are not yet supported and the app will say so rather than fail silently.
Collectibles appear with their artwork and collection name where public metadata is available. Missing artwork usually means the metadata is hosted somewhere unreachable, not that the token has gone.
Unsolicited NFTs
Anyone can send anything to any address. A steady trickle of NFTs you did not ask for is normal, and a large share of them are bait.
Never follow a link inside an unexpected NFT
The scam is uniform: an airdropped item with a name like “Claim 5 SOL” pointing at a site that asks you to connect and sign. The signature drains the wallet. The NFT itself is harmless; interacting with it is not.
Safe handling: ignore it. Hiding or burning it is optional tidiness, not security. Do not connect to a site because a token told you to. See protecting yourself from scams.
NFTs and inheritance
Collectibles are not inherited
The Switch cannot currently escrow NFTs — only SOL can be deposited into the inheritance vault. Nothing in your collection passes to your heir through the Switch, however long you are silent.
Two separate reasons, worth keeping apart:
- Today, the app has no way to deposit any token — SOL only. See depositing assets for your heir.
- Compressed NFTs may never be escrowable. A cNFT lives in a Merkle tree rather than a token account, so the program has nothing to take custody of. Most NFTs minted on Solana today are compressed.
If a collectible matters, cover it in the Legacy Vault: a note saying what it is, which wallet holds it, and what you want done with it. Store the image file too — the token only points at hosting that may not outlast you. See storing files.
Where the art actually lives
The token on Solana is a pointer. The image usually sits on ordinary web hosting or a content-addressed network, and if that host disappears, the pointer remains while the picture does not.
For anything you genuinely care about preserving for an heir, put a copy of the file itself in the Legacy Vault alongside the token. See storing files.