Allowing my child to play multiplayer games

davidk_family · Mar 8, 2022

I have a child's account that is linked to my family account, and that is preventing him from being able to play games online. I can't even figure out how to see a list of people in my family, much less change any of their permissions. I would be open to letting him out of the "family" if that is the way to do this, but can't figure out how to do any of this, and the online instructions are spectacularly awful.

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Ricardo Lechuga

Hi davidk_family! My name is Ricardo an independent advisor ready to help you with this situation!

To allow a child to play multiplayer games it's necessary to change some settings in the account privacy, here is a step by step guide on how to do this process

https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/44...

Here is a different one

https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/36...

FreakRoach

Is yours a child account? It may be that your account is not allowed to play multiplayer games.

NeoDan123

Good day

If the account you are playing with is set as a child account you wont be able to start a Realm.

To be able to play on someone else realm you will need to have the settings changed to allow for multiplayer games.

Child accounts is under the age of 18 (20 in South Korea and Japan).

StarSeeker89172

"You cannot play online multiplayer because of how your Microsoft account is set up. Review and change your privacy settings at aka.ms/accountsettings."

This was breaking me. But with hours of searching and trying different things this was the key:

To join a Realm in the first place, the xbox setting You can create and join Clubs must be set to Allow.

So even though I had allowed my child to join multiplayer games, they still could not join my Realm.

You can adjust Join Clubs on the Xbox One console or in a browser.

Xbox One Console:

Login as the parent/adult in the family

Account > Family Settings

Choose child's profile

Privacy & online safety

Xbox Live privacy

View details & customise

Friends & clubs

You can create and join clubs: ALLOW

Communication & multiplayer

You can join multiplayer games: Allow

You can play with people outside of Xbox Live: Allow

In a Browser:

https://account.xbox.com/Profile & sign in

Privacy Settings

Choose the Child Account you wish to amend

Choose Xbox One/Windows 10 Online Safety

Adjust the following:

You can play with people outside of Xbox Live: Allow (not sure if this is needed, but as Minecraft is cross-platform I adjusted this)

You can create and join clubs: ALLOW

You can join multiplayer games: Allow

Francia J.

Hi, I hope you're doing great out there. I am an Independent advisor and I am here to help you in regard to your concern.

May I ask what is the exact error message or prompt that she is getting whenever she is trying to play games such Roblox so I can guide you with the necessary steps?

Allowing my child to play multiplayer games