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@Burl Kerr

  • Are you on iOS 14.3? If not, maybe try updating to that.

  • Have you checked all your settings inside Minecraft as well? There are "multiplayer" settings under the HOME page "settings" button, AND "multiplayer" settings in each WORLD as well (to edit world settings, click on the pencil icon before clicking to enter the world). All the settings in these places need to have multiplayer and LAN enabled.

  • You'll also need to check the user settings in the user's xbox live account to allow multiplayer. Google for details on that, as it's explained in lots of places.

I hope this helps.

Hi Sue, you may need to update your iOS to the latest?

I have the same "Unable to connect to world" issue, but on two iPad minis, not cross platform.

My kids both have identical iPad minis with the latest iOS, and version 1.16.201 of MC installed.

We have issues with multiplayer worlds loading over LAN. They can log in OK, and see each other, and see the shared worlds, and send invites all fine. But when they accept the invite, or click to join the shared world under Friends, it looks like the world is loading but then says "Unable to connect to world".

This was working OK when we first installed MC, but now it's really random. We noticed it sometimes works for one iPad's worlds, but never for the other iPad's worlds. But even the iPad that shares worlds sometimes then randomly stops working again. We restart our router and the iPads/MC to see if that solves it, but it doesn't. But then later with no restart it works. Then 3 hours later stops working. Very odd.

We have set all the relevant account, user and worlds for multiplayer permissions (incl over LAN), and I have tried all the recommended fixes I can see online. Our router NAT settings are set to allow all devices, but I can't see a way to check if "open/moderate/strict" (it's a BT Smart Hub 2). And I cant find any way to check if it's an iPad NAT settings issue either.

Adding my notes here in case it helps identify a MC issue.

 

Update: After trying all the suggested fixes again, we decided to swap accounts on iPads to see if it was an issue with A. the kids' accounts or B. the iPad/MC app that was at fault. Even when signed in with swapped accounts, the problem continued on the same iPad that we couldn't share world's from, so that meant it wasn't a user account issue.

We made sure the MC app and iOS versions were the same on both iPads. 

Then we went through all the MC settings to make sure they were the same. All fine.

Then we went through all settings (restrictions, content limits, app age limits, etc) on both iPads to check they match.

THEN in the main iPad Settings, we scrolled down to the Minecraft app, and noticed "Local Network" was ON for the iPad that shared worlds OK, but it was OFF for the problem iPad. We turned this to ON, and bingo all now working OK between both iPads. 

I hope this helps other users and support team.