If you are on an IPad you can not have a iPhone connect to your world and same goes for an iPad joining a world.
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Uriel Salischiker
MCPE-47678
Can not connect to a world
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Uriel Salischiker
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iOS
1.11.4
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Thank you for your report!
We're actually already tracking this issue in MCPE-36190, so I've resolved and linked this ticket as a duplicate.
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