I can't play with friends in Minecraft

I can't play with friends or on online. in minecraft

Hi there! This is Ronnie, an independent advisor.

Nice to meet you and I hope you are having a great day!

I understand you need help playing Minecraft with your friends.

May I know what error are you getting when trying to play with your friends?

If this is about how your account is being set up, please make sure to check your privacy settings. But most of the time this is cause by the account being a child account.

Check if you have a family organizer here:

https://account.microsoft.com/family

If you do not, please have an adult account add you to the family so that they can change your privacy settings and allow you to play multiplayer here:

https://account.xbox.com/settings

Only adult accounts have access to the settings and that can only be changed if you are already added to the family group.

Hello Anish Nepal1,

Welcome to Xbox Community Forums. We appreciate for sharing your concern with us and we hope that you are doing well today.

We understand that you cannot play Minecraft with friends.

Let us check on this together and sort this out to assist your concern. However, before we proceed, we would like to ask few questions about it.

1. When did the problem start?
   
2. What platform are you playing (Xbox Console, PC or phone)?
   
3. What troubleshooting steps have you done?
   
4. Was this working before?
   
5. Recent activity or changes made before the issue appeared?
   

These above questions would help us provide the necessary information. Once we have gathered all the information, we will formulate the viable solution to help you with your case.

For the meantime, allow us to share with you the general articles with guide on how to play Minecraft. Kindly check if you can get steps to resolve the issue.

• How to Play Minecraft Multiplayer | Minecraft Help
  
• How to Play Minecraft: Java Edition Multiplayer | Minecraft Help
  

Let us know the result and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We may recommend further troubleshooting steps once we have received your answers to the above questions.



We will be glad to follow up and help you.

Sincerely,



Xbox Forum Moderator

Microsoft Community

Hey Anish!

Nice to meet you! I'm Darhyl, a fellow gamer. I'm sorry you are experiencing this. I am here to help.

If I may ask, may I know which platform device are you using to play the game Minecraft, is it on Windows PC or Xbox console?

Also, may I have the exact error message upon attempting to play Minecraft with your friends, please?

Hello Haslip, my name is Khaji I am the independent advisor and I will be happy to help you today.

You have to have an active Nintendo Switch Online subscription on your account in addition to using Microsoft.

Best regards, Khaji