Had the exact same problem! Created a Microsoft account for my daughter. Tried to add myself as her friend, but got the message she wasn't allowed to. Fiddled around on the web (extremely frustrated by the extremely unfriendly flow, but that's not even the point) and succeeded in adding myself as her friend on xbox.com. Returned to Minecraft on the iPad, but it crashed again and again at every launch.
James Bewley's fix didn't work. Turning off WiFi or turning on airplane mode delayed the crash, but it was still inevitable. Signing out off the Microsoft account was not an option in the settings menu. Deleting all account info (on the iPad) did nothing. The game kept crashing.
We were desperate. My daughter has spent countless hours building her world. We thought all was lost.
Luckily someone at the Minecraft IRC suggested we used a 3rd party application to backup her world, then remove the app, reinstall it and then restore the world. I used PhoneView and it worked like a charm!
It's not a fix for the problem at hand, but at least we didn't lose hours and hours of work! I'm at the point where I no longer care about cross-platform multiplayer or a stupid Microsoft account. I'm angry like hell that a major issue like this still hasn't been fixed in two years time!
Chris Waalberg
Had the exact same problem! Created a Microsoft account for my daughter. Tried to add myself as her friend, but got the message she wasn't allowed to. Fiddled around on the web (extremely frustrated by the extremely unfriendly flow, but that's not even the point) and succeeded in adding myself as her friend on xbox.com. Returned to Minecraft on the iPad, but it crashed again and again at every launch.
James Bewley's fix didn't work. Turning off WiFi or turning on airplane mode delayed the crash, but it was still inevitable. Signing out off the Microsoft account was not an option in the settings menu. Deleting all account info (on the iPad) did nothing. The game kept crashing.
We were desperate. My daughter has spent countless hours building her world. We thought all was lost.
Luckily someone at the Minecraft IRC suggested we used a 3rd party application to backup her world, then remove the app, reinstall it and then restore the world. I used PhoneView and it worked like a charm!
It's not a fix for the problem at hand, but at least we didn't lose hours and hours of work! I'm at the point where I no longer care about cross-platform multiplayer or a stupid Microsoft account. I'm angry like hell that a major issue like this still hasn't been fixed in two years time!