Joining a realm you have been invited to, from the "joinable friends" tab, allows you to see world information such as: Game rules, world seed, resource packs, world name, default game mode, etc. You can also see player privileges, for all players currently in the game from the pause menu.
You can see ALL of this information, no matter what status you have as a player. Realm owner, OP, standard member, or visitor. Typically when you join a realm all of this information is hidden, even to the realm owner.
Having the game information hidden, is necessary for the life of a lot of realms that want to keep the seed private in order to avoid issues on that front. There is nothing you can do to combat this bug, absolutely nothing.
What i think is happening here, is that when you join from the joinable friends tab, bedrock thinks you are simply joining someones multiplayer world, and not an actual realm. The big thing to suggest this, is when you join from the joinable tab, you get the standard village panorama in the back round, and not the nether portal that is shown when you join realms.
All other behavior(being able to see player privileges etc) is the same as a multiplayer world too.
Video showing this bug in action: https://youtu.be/cASU8AMBSI8
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This affects all multiplayer games, not just Realms, and all joining players, not just invited ones. (A LAN player can join without an invite, even if Invite Only is set.)
We recognize that exposing the seed to non-operator players can be a problem, but it's unclear how the rest of the information (world name, game rules, default game mode, resource packs, and player permissions) could be used to gain an advantage. If it's just a matter of hiding the seed on the settings screen, that might be fairly easy to fix, but if access to the settings and permissions needs to be blocked, that could be a bit more complicated. Do you have any particular scenarios in mind where exposing the other information could cause a problem?
The current way its set up, people who join a realm normally won't have any of this information available, where as those who join from the joinable tab, just inherently know more about the world, and what they can do. Which could be a bit of a game changer depending on what the realm is used for. Mini games, factions, pvp, puzzle maps, or just hard core survival.
Not showing realms on the joinable tab, would solve this issue for realms, since you should already need to be whitelisted on the realm to join in the first place. Not sure what you could do for normal worlds:]
I'm not able to reproduce this issue. If I follow the steps shown in SilentWisperer's video, I see the regular background while the join is in progress, but after it's open I can't access any world information as either the owner or when I join via the Join Friends tab.
If anyone is still able to see world information for a Realms world without being the owner, please describe the steps to accomplish it. Include the sequence of steps from the "pause" menu (Esc key or equivalent). A series of screenshots would do as well.
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As a side effect of changes made to Realms, a Realms subscriber who is playing on Realms no longer appears in the Joinable Friends tab. Instead, Realms invites are accepted through another screen which is reached via a button added (while an invite is pending) to the top of the Friends tab.
The issues described in this ticket only appeared when the invited friend joined via Joinable Friends, so they are no longer occurring as of 1.17.30. (The change may have happened earlier, I'm not sure.)
I noticed this issue too. Only the owner should have access to the world info, not the members.