[MCPE-191161] Unable to join friends of friends games with the new UI

If a friend joins one of their friends games thats open to friends of friends then their friends cant join the game when they have the new UI, the join button is just missing.

A - Host

B - Friend of both A and C

C - Local player with new UI

A starts a game and opens it to friends of friends, B then joins the game. C then wants to join but is unable due to the new UI, however if they login to a device with the old UI they can join without issue.

Screenshot attached it from player Cs perspective looking at player Bs profile while B is in As game.

Related issues

is duplicated by

MCPE-195032 Friends of friends and other multiplayer features *completely* broken in new UI update

MCPE-216863 Please revert the buggy friend list UI

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rtm516 2025-03-10T17:54:08Z

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rtm516 2025-03-10T18:09:03Z

The session directory the game reaches out to returns the session and you can join from the xbox app on windows without issue.

[MCQA] v-jakublu 2025-03-13T15:07:19Z

Hello and thank you for your report!

However we were not able to reproduce this issue.
Could you please add an video attachment from a perspective of a player that can not join the game?
Also we would appreciate more details in reproduce steps as well as description as to how the issue is replicated.

AliveJy 2025-04-03T09:37:12Z

This links to MCPE-199151, where many other features were also broken due to the new UI.

hopefully this gets fixed soon as these are major bugs to multiplayer

AliveJy 2025-04-03T09:42:32Z

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You can see from these screenshots the difference of the amount of worlds that are on, back then there were so many worlds from friends of friends and many people online in general because a lot more people would join their worlds because you could join them through friends of friends, now since the new UI, I only see 1-2 worlds, which is significantly less than the 6-10 worlds that I would see on the old UI. This is very unfortunate and I hope they can fix it ASAP.

AliveJy 2025-04-03T09:47:01Z

plus the worlds have significantly less players, and by significantly less I mean SIGNIFICANTLY less. The same worlds that used to get 10+ players now only get ~2-3, usually me, the host, and some random dude. No one else joins because the world is not visible to anyone due to the lack of being able to join from friends of friends, and the people that do occasionally join, only have joined because their UI still has not updated.