"Chat not allowed by account settings. Cannot send message" when trying to open chat.
In-Game chat settings set to "shown"
account.xbox settings:
XBox One/Windows 10 Online Safety settings all set to "Allow"
Privacy settings "You can communicate outside of Xbox Live with voice & text" set to "Allow", interactions from account owner set to "everyone"; others set to "friends"
Removing account from launcher does not fix the issue, issue only occurred since migration to microsoft account, occurs on all multiplayer servers.
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As clearly stated in the description:
You have disabled online chat in your Xbox Privacy settings. Go there and ensure that "You can communicate outside of Xbox Live with voice & text" is enabled.
You have hidden Chat in your chat settings, or disabled all chat except for commands. To fix this, go to "Options → Chat Settings → Chat" and set it to "Shown".
those settings are already as they should be, this is clearly not the issue here.
And just to hammer the point across: see attachments for current settings used.
If following the provided instructions in MC-209432 did not resolve this issue, please approach community support for assistance.
The issue was resolved by removing all minecraft files as follows:
move all files in AppData\Roaming\.minecraft to another folder (OLD)
start the launcher with a blank slate, connect and install the game
connect to a server to confirm it works
However, removing all the new files and restoring all the files from the OLD folder did not bring back the issue as one would suspect, as I tried to pinpoint which file exactly was at cause. This indicates a problem with the launcher OR the Microsoft account unable to sync properly and not the game install. However as I was trying to dig deeper into the cause the community support was mostly annoyed that one would try to find the cause after the issue was "fixed".
Once the issue is "fixed", you can restore all your old files, everything should work as it did before the migration.
gornemant is 100% correct – This is a bug exactly as described after Mojang --> Microsoft account migration and attempting to use "/t" for in-game Minecraft chat.
All Microsoft / "xBox Live" settings are correct for enabled chat. No one has made a client-side or server-side change. I've played Minecraft for seven years, done ITSQA for eight, and been in general IT Ops wrangling things from pseudo-code to server switches for 25 years. This error happens after the account migration.
d Benj gets it, my best guess is a failure to Sync the account, either from the Launcher side or from Microsoft's side, but of course nobody is willing to dig deeper into that, it's easier to tell people to delete everything and force a Sync with a fresh installer than try and work out the issue I guess.
Had the same issue. All settings appeared to be correct. However, my account also manages my nephew's Microsoft account.
I went into his settings and his account was set to block chatting outside of Xbox live. Set his account to allow, and my account started working for chatting.
This definitely seems like a programming bug. My account should not be pulling the settings from his account, which is a completely different login.
This is bullshit. My friend got communication banned on Xbox and the ban applies to Minecraft chatting? that's ridiculous.. Followed all the instructions above and none of them work. Microsoft shouldn't have control over Minecraft! they only own Mojang This shouldn't be marked as resolved. Why is Mojang not commenting on this stupid program error?
Duplicate of MC-209432. Please see the moderator note attached to this ticket for instructions on how to go about resolving this issue.