Adding friends to kids account Minecraft on switch

ABk3_276 · May 2, 2020

Hello, can you please advise how to allow my son to add friends to play with others on minecraft on the switch? He is told that he cant due to his microsoft account is set up, but as his parent i cannot see anything about allowing friends. We thought it
would be fixed by paying the money to join Nintendo Switch Online but unfortunately we paid the money but it has made no difference. Can help? All the advice threads seem to be about the xbox. Thank you.

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XBF Brad A

Hello all,

As this is an old thread, I will be locking this one. Updates, games and everything changes often so would be best to create a new thread. Once a new thread is created we will be happy to assist you in any issues or questions you might have.

Thanks,

Brad

Kirill Krasin

Hello,

I'm not sure about Switch privacy/account settings, but if your son's account is linked to your Microsoft Family Group, you can view or edit privacy settings

here.

BrookBurns

I am having the same issue and when going to the settings on the family account, there is no option to change any settings allowing my son to add friends on Minecraft on his switch. I can set screen time restrictions, content restrictions, etc. But nothing
for allowing him to add friends on applictions.

SimonLloyd4

Solved it myself...

After amending the settings on xbox webpage (both the privacy tab and the windows 10/xbox tab) it still would not work.

Signed each profile into an xbox console and added each child as a friend there. Once that was done minecraft allowed me to add each child as friends of one another on the game.

Odd since no intention of using on xbox only android but it works so 🤷

Lucas Lauer

Are you all playing on the same version of Minecraft? Not the edition (Bedrock), but all clients are updated to v1.19.10? And have you tried deleting and adding your kids to your friend list and removing and adding you on their friend list too?

Adding friends to kids account Minecraft on switch