Your friends are not playing Minecraft right now

I am unable to join any other Minecraft games on my local network from my Xbox One. Minecraft just shows "your friends are not playing Minecraft right now" despite the Friends tab correctly showing the number of other games running on my network.

Others appear to have the same issue, but haven't received any response from Microsoft or Mojang:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/cannot-see-friendinvites-minecraft-xbox-one-lan/4c706ccc-83ad-411f-9f3e-69631fec58cc

https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/support/minecraft-bedrock-support/2999033-lan-shows-1-friend-but-no-games

I have tested this with Minecraft games running on an IPad, Android tablets, Android phones, and with the bedrock dedicated server. I've also tested the tablets and phones both logged into xbox live and logged out. In all cases, the XBox one will show the
correct count of games running on the network just under the "Friends" text but will not show any worlds to join. The tablets and phones are all able to see each-other and join any game hosted on my network.

I've verified that my profile allows joining multiplayer games and can play with people outside of xbox live under the "Xbox One & Windows 10 Online Safety" configuration page. I've tried disabling and re-enabling those features. I've also powered off my
Xbox (and unplugged it) and left it off for a few minutes then turned it back on.



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