My Minecraft on Xbox won't load pass Locating Server

Were you involved in the beta test for 1.16 if you were that might be it, if so unenroll from the beta and uninstall and reinstall and you should be good (this happened to me multiple times)

perhaps someone is preventing you from joining, i know that sounds silly but sometimes connections for whatever reason do not agree for example when i used to play GTA

friend 1 would join and friend 2 couldn't join me

they would invite me each-other until both of them reset and it finally worked

try hosting a world to test your connection , if the same exact issue happens to someone else try joining the world before them see if that fixes it or try telling them to reset

these problems are confusing and make zero sense i am sure with trial and error you will fix it

Hi,

try to contact minecraft support on the issue

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

You can verify that your console or that of your friend are not in the insider program and some of them have a beta version installed

Hi Nancy,

Thank you for posting on the Xbox forums. I'd be happy to help troubleshoot the issue.

From your description, it sounds like the issue might be stemming from your friend's saved world since you can both join general servers, you can join other friend's servers, and nobody else seems to be able to join your friend's personal server.

What device is your friend playing on? Have either of you create a new world for testing to see if you can join each other at all?

It could be that the world is corrupted and hangs when trying to join multiplayer.

I would also recommend a hard reboot of both devices.