Hello,
i've tried to play with a friend from xbox one but i cant join his world and he cant join mine. the error status is "unable to connect to world".
is there any resolution to it? his version is the 1.16.40 and he cant find any other updates.
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We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-36190, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
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