me and a friend had been playing on each others worlds a few times to help each other out and to show off our worlds to each other. we haven't been able to get onto the others world since the nether update and it has been driving us both nuts. the game shows that i have entered her world but doesn't load my character or show me anywhere on her world. the locator map shows that i should be at spawn but my screen still says "Locating Server". we can connect to realms easily enough but neither of us want to waste money to get a server/realm to play on with each other. we have tried to uninstal and reinstall multiple times (fully lost a world because of this) and are both getting fed up at this point. any advice would be helpful.

We have tried Pc to switch and Switch to switch.