Is it possible for Minecraft users on Mac (Java) to play with iOS (Bedrock) users? [duplicate]

Solution 1:

TL;DR

This is not achieveable!

You are looking for completely different versions of the game. Java version is not even remotely compatible with the Bedrock-Version that you can run on mobile devices and Windows 10.

Since the diffenrence is not just in the naming and the features, the Java-Version is literally written in a completely other language than the bedrock-version. [Java vs. C++] Bedrock is a completely rewritten version of the original Java-Source code, which behaves very different from the original in a lot of ways.

Redstone for example is quite often very unreliable in bedrock and does not behave the same every time. While I have to admit that those kind of things also appear in Java they are rarely encountered in "normal" gameplay.

Unless you can all commit to one of those two versions, that will not happen unfortunately.

As of my knowledge there is no straight forward way for oyu to get a bedrock compatible version of minecraft on a Mac. Mojang has published the Windows10 edition which would work, but that seems to be out of the question for you.

You might look into the possibility of emulating a Android System on your Mac and run minecraft on that, but since you are commited to Apple only I assume that would also not be acceptable to you, or even possible since MacOS blocks some of those crafty and fun stuff.