When opening up Minecraft for the first time I was excited to test out all the new features on my friends realm. However I ran into an issue. When clicking on the realm 1 of two things would happen:

1.) It would encourage me to buy a realm when I would click on my friends realm

or

2.) It would not allow me to press the play button (double clicking doesn’t work).

Oddly enough if I continue this process for a while, the play button lights up at random and I can join the realm.

(just copied down what was in my F3 on the right side lol)