My son (13) and my daughter (7) have PS online accounts linked to our playstation. Based on my parental settings, I have manually approved the game for both of them, as well as to “communicate” (even though I wish that wasn’t required) as we only intend to play locally.

My daughter is still unable to join a local play that another profile is hosting, and if she is signed in as her, she can create a world, but not enable local multi-player. Playstation confirmed it’s no other settings I can do to fix.

The game appears to not distinguish between local play multi-player and online play and as a result she is unable to play her christmas gift. This is for the PS4 Minecraft edition played on a PS5.

I’m not 100% on version number - but the PS5 says Minecraft is up to date, as does the system software.