Minecraft Pocket Edition app problems

If you are a regular player of Minecraft Pocket Edition on iOS or Android, this is the page when you can check the Minecraft PE server status and find out if the game is down or not working in your area.

Mojang regularly update the game with new patches and there’s usually an intensive beta program that takes place before each final launch.

On occasion though, Mojang’s servers can have problems so you can leave your status below on if you are suddenly having issues and can’t get into a Minecraft server on PE.

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Is Minecraft down for you right now, for the Pocket Edition on Saturday February 16, 2019? If so, tell us if you are on Android or iOS and how long you have been locked out of the game.

Keep checking this page as we’ll update it with official status alerts from Mojang, or if there is scheduled Minecraft PE server maintenance due to happen.

ebethmurphy

We have multiple devices… all are working except 1. Kindle Fire 8. (We have 2 KF 8. Only one is not working) it has been messed up for a couple of weeks.
Lana M

I created a new world after I updated my phone and the world wouldn’t load, it only said “Generating World.” The tips went by but the loading bar wouldn’t start filling. I have an IPhone 6s
Amanda Litchfield

I have 2 fire tablets and mcpe will load on one tablet, but wont get past the white loading screen on the other before completely exiting the game. started yesterday 2/10/19
Strange Ghost765

Have not been able to start Minecraft in the last couple of days.
Kasey Hicks

Multiplayer won’t work I check in the edit it says it is on but when I get in the world I look under multiplayer and it says it is off
Evan S.

I started crashing about 30 minutes ago. I used iexplorer on my Mac to remove my current skin as corrupted skins previously caused me to
crash but it didn’t do anything. This also happened to start after I changed some settings on the Xbox website that didn’t have anything to do with the game but I thought it might be worth mentioning.
Anastasia Rusnak

I try and open one of my worlds and it looks like it’s loading and then the app crashes. However, I am able to open new worlds. This is frustrating because I have put so much time into my old world. This had been happening for about 12 hrs now.
diane

I cannot open minecraft and play, I open it and it looks like it is loading but then goes to my home scree for my tablet. I’m on a kindle. Has done this for at least 3 months now
Albin Roussel

till bricked after over a month. no amount of clearing, uninstall reinstall is helping. only works on my phone but not tablet.
Layla Revilla

I got the game then I left and closed the tab on my phone but when i go to open it the app freezes on the loading screen I have uninstalled and redownload it but it still will not work.
حمدان مروان الشحي

Minecraft stay crashing when i open the app and i have just downloaded it on iphone 6 device
Danny Ulmer

Was fine yesterday but now even after update iOS on iPad and latest Minecraft version it keeps freezing and sometimes crashing when in menu or if I manage to load a world it freezes again
- Millie Devrell
  
  Same here. I open the app and a few seconds after it freezes and closes itself. For a few seconds before it closes it’ll say it’s connecting to Xbox live account
Anthony David Mitchell

Minecraft PE crashes on the sign in on my Note 9, it completes the sign in process and then just crashes the app.
- Roshan Kalikasingh
  
  Same
jpdls

Mcpe crashes when I open my world.
Milly Wallace

So i was playing and i then left but came back on and it just stayed 4/5th of the way on the loading bar. With the minecraft name then i re-installed it logged into xbox but lost all info then every time i left the game it kept doing the same. Staying 4/5th on the loading bar. I dont think all my info is gone cause u retreive all info when u have xbox but my skin was my less reacent one and all my 29 worlds werent there. But ive seen it may be down at this time so im convinced im not doomed. Tell me if this is happening to you! Luckily i have all my server stuff like friends recovered so its not the servers with a problem :/
Zabrina Vernon

The problem is my minecraft keeps saying it’s not responding after I open the app and it won’t load
- Milly Wallace
  
  Same! I keep uninstalling it but it repeats itself
ollash301_272

I play on iOS. On the 3/1/19 I couldn’t open any worlds or create any. I would press the “Create” button or just press on the world to open it and nothing would happen. I did manage to open one of my old worlds which happened to be a downloaded map and when I was loaded in, there were no buildings, only spaces where the buildings should be. I don’t know how to fix. I’ve tried restarting my iPad, but it doesn’t change anything. I don’t want to reinstall in case I lose all of my worlds and servers.
- ollash301_272
  
  I took the chance and deleted Minecraft. Because I am on iOS, I did lose all of my worlds and servers, but everything is working well now! I’d say it’s worth losing all your data.
Melisa Li

my minecraft just shut down, it was working fine for a solid 8 days before this. but a few hours ago it was working fine then a few hours later, it freezes before i sign in? what could be wrong?
Tommy Östberg

For about 3 weeks I have had problems with Minecraft on my iPad. When I am logged in to my account it’s impossible to open a world. The game just freeze when trying to load. Same in the store, works fine when I’m not logged in but when I want to buy or check my coins and the logg in the store keeps loading and gives me “unable to connect, check internet connection”.

I’ve tried reinstalling the game and the iPad is updated.

What could be wrong?
Albin Roussel

Not worked for about 10 days on Android tablet (5). Still works fine an android on my phone(7).
zemo munro

Been logging into Minecraft PE world for the past 5 days on Samsung S2 Tablet each time it crashes to my Desktop page?……This happened about 4 months ago and I lost 6 months worth of build……Any suggestions?
James Bolen III

Good morning, I’m playing Minecraft PE on a Samsung S9+. Since the last big update I’ve consistently been unable to get online. It appears that the app closes as soon as it logs into my Xbox Live account. I can generally access PE after multiple closures or multiple phone restarts. After reading through the forums it appears that this is a common problem. Any suggestions?
Gemma Crone

Hey. We have minecraft on a samsung s8 phone. When you click on a world or create a world there is no buttons to use i think its called a hotbar. Please help. Sad little 7 year old here thanks.
Jan Henrik Larsen

Solution: RESTART your iPad. If that does not work and the iPad wants to be updated – check that in Settings -> General -> Softwareupdate – then update the iPad. If that does not work either then uninstall Minecraft and install it again.
Rächel Yeöw

After the recent update of minecraft, I log in the game as usual. Then I tap on my world, it just won’t load. I even try to leave it the whole night to see if it will work. But when I woke up in the morning, it still the same.
Blaze/blazie/Hannah Gascoigne

The game opens and let’s me sign in, as soon as I go into the world tab it freezes
Sam Goddard

Minecraft pocket edition Android – stopped working and then removed from my son’s tablet. Google play insists on payment before reinstalling. Any ideas?
- Milly Wallace
  
  Maybe send an email? Customer service. I removed the game but it didnt insist on payment again.
  - Sam Goddard
    
    Thanks Milly. It turned out that Minecraft had been removed from the Google Play family library. Once we re-added it, it worked fine
Skyler Perreault

December 14th, IOS. Screen is white. I have tried deleting the app (which has pissed me off as I have a world i have worked my ass off on…) and restarting my phone.
Kirsten Lawson

iOS no more Minecraft for us! It won’t join, can’t connect, crashes repeatedly! It worked on my phone yesterday but now it won’t. I just bought this app 2 weeks ago! I am fairly crushed!
Cody Mclaughlin

I’m on iOS December 12th 2018 had an update today played with a friend on her world but just realized when I try to play on my old world(s) it won’t load at all it’s stuck on the generating bar and it doesn’t fill up at all, I’ve spent a lot of time in my worlds and can’t seem to find any way to fix it. Very frustrating especially if I start over I feel like I’ll make a new world again just go through this on every update if anybody can help me it would be very appreciated thank you
Richard Cottrell

December 10th 2018 my son has been unable to connect to worlds for about a week. Message ‘there was a problem loading this world ‘ any help would be great thanks Richard
- Richard Cottrell
  
  Richard – forgot to mention he plays using a kindle fire. We deleted some apps to increase the memory and it Solved the problem
James Tozer

December 9th 2018, my son hasn’t been able to play minecraft pe for over a month now. I have sent in help requests but with no feedback. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks
- Scott Feierstein
  
  Same. Very dissapointed for my kids.
Chelsea Xenos

Thinking of getting a refund, even tho I have had the game for 8 months. Constant problems,,,,,
Chelsea Xenos

Mcpe iOS down for 6 weeks now, grrrrrrr
Sharpe Zhao

December 8, 2018, Stucked on the white Minecraft loading scream, the game won’t load.
Zowie Schumacher

December 8th both mine and my daughters minecraft PE aren’t working on our ipads, freezes not long after opening the app. Has been doing this since the start of the week.
Shaun Wuerl

December 6th, 2018. Okay, so I just finished building my 6th redstone operated mansion, I took a break and tried to go back on Minecraft. It loaded, then crashed before the menu screen loaded fully. I tried everything, closing the app, shutting down my iPhone, software update, nothing worked. I searched it up and found this article. So this is a global glitch? I really hope this gets fixed soon, really frustrated. Btw, I have a iPhone 5s, pretty old, idk what to do and pretty sure it’s not just cause my phone is old. Help please
Natalie Ellen Brown-Sherman

We are having the same problem it loads and then shuts off instantly. I’ve tried everything from uninstalling, hard reboot, reload and no luck. Help please my son is so frustrated.
Ann Valor

When I refresh the game, and I goes through mojang then Minecraft the background and stuff just starts the apear at the top of the screen, then it just quits. I can’t even get into the game before it crashes. Can anyone help? December 4 2018
Ben Domagala

Mine says i havent brought it genuinely when i purchased it of the play store. Any ideas??
SanityJane

My daughter has been unable to play the game on her iPad since the update. The game loads but then freezes after a minute or two.
Lara Lemm Hubbard

MCPE on my sons iPad has not been working. It appears to be opening then just closes down. So frustrating! Is there a fix on the way?
Sneeky Kidd

okay phone is giving me a message that says it cant connect to realms right now and wont let me on servers i have tried everything. Deleting the app and re-downloading it, turning off my phone, logging out, turning off my phone while its logged out. im kinda freaking out. I also am on an Iphone 6 and on the latest ios update. it happened like 2 days ago and i know this happened before but i have no idea how it was fixed and im scared i will have to give up on the game
L Voss

Minecraft PE on iOS 12.1 iPad stopped working after last update. As with others, appears to be loading in but crashes before game selection screen.

I used another iPad and loaded on image of the original iPad and the Minecraft icon showed up immediately as “loading” and was stuck at about half way. I tried deleting this and reloading the game. This fixed it but all games lost—this is not okay! Now I must dump that image and hope Mojang fixes this soon so the original iPad—with games-will work.

I suspect if the programmer’s children were Minecraft addicts this would be very uncommon indeed. Kids NEED this… Hoping for quick resolution for peace at this house.
Royalty Kim

My MCPE has stopped working probably since last month. I never knew what happened to it or anything but the last time I used it was when I played in one of the servers. I logged off without leaving the server and when I returned, I got stuck in the Title screen and it crashes. I always try to play from now and then but it just crashes no matter what I do.
Im using an Ipad btw.
Alligator 6000

My game runs just fine when I open the app on my Ipad. However, then I go into one of my worlds and take about two steps and the game turns black and immediately crashes. Every single time. It’s been doing this for a few weeks now. SO ANNOYING
Jim Crants

Yesterday, Minecraft Pocket Edition stopped working on my son’s Android tablet. At first, neither of us could enter the other’s world, which was frustrating enough. Then, things got bad. When he tries to open any world, the progress bar advances to the last tick mark and stays there indefinitely. I am not having this issue on my Android phone. We tried reinstalling his app, and for a while we were back to the first problem (but with all his worlds gone). This morning, he suddenly has his worlds back, but they winwo load.
Tan Salazar

Hello, We’re experiencing the same problem :/ ever since nov 19, 2018 it keeps crashing once I open the app and the titles show. I hope it starts working soon!
- Nadia Privett
  
  Same
- Eileen Pretorius
  
  Having the same issue on iOS since the update.
Erin Miller

My sons goes to title screen and then returns to homepage on Kindle Fire. It’s been like this for 1 1/2 weeks and he hasn’t been able to play.
alex

My game keeps crashing as soon as it logs into Xbox live (nov 20th, ‘18) on my iPhone se (iOS 12) and I tried restarting my phone but it didn’t do anything :/
Jaime Blakley

Mine is crashing since yesterday on my Galaxy S6. Uninstalled & reinstalled. Happens on first screen immediately.
Christine Davis

crashing after white start up page for the past week on son’s ipad mini 2 … daughters is still fine.
Vicki Vik-Mallett

Crashing on my son’s kindle at the title screen. Was working yesterday just fine
Kian Hong Tan

Huawei phone running on android. Game suddenly does not work since today, was working fine yesterday. Game loads up to the white title screen then screen goes black and the game crashes.
Chrys

What the heck! It’s been almost 2 WEEKS since I’ve been able to play! Someone please help!
Mary Stewart

MCPE is crashing on Startup. Has been all day. Shows the white screen with “Minecraft” then closes. Have tried restarting the app, restarting my sons tablet and reinstalling the game. No luck all around.
Star Inc

I’ve got an Android and I’ve been having this crash where I tap the app it rushes from the black screen to the white, to the minecraft on white. It’s been happening since the beginning June 2018. Please do help.
Chrys

The next major update is most likely in December. So if there aren’t any bug fix updates between then and now, it means we’ll be waiting for another month.
Scott Feierstein

Still no luck. Crashing over and over.
GamerRejectProject With A Pira

As of the past 2 days from today November 10th 2018
I have been getting prompted by minecraft at the start of my load screen for my realm that my realm is going to update soon check app store for update
Then it gives me the option to check or to proceed to my realm .
I havent had any crashes except for the normal server disconnect issue that ivv had for years now playing minecraft pe.
P.s. I use Andriod not IoS
Danielle Nevin

I’m trying to open 1.7.0 on an iPhone SE running iOS 12.1. It shows the white screen, then home screen for about 1 second before crashing. It is running fine on my iPhone 8 running 11.4.1. I was able to open it on my SE last week with no problem but no dice today. I have done a hard restart on my phone to no avail. Any suggestions?
Nadia Privett

I try and open the app it sits for a bit, shows a bit of the Minecraft home screen for a split second and then crashes out of the app. How would I fix this? It’s been happening for a couple of weeks. And I have tried restarting my iPad, and I updated to iOS 12. If anyone knows how to fix this PLEASE tell me!

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