“Unable to Connect to World” Minecraft PE 1.16.201

So my brother and I have been playing Minecraft together on our iPads for years now, but in September I got a new iPad Pro 3rd Generation and I’ve been having issues with Minecraft ever since. Every time we have tried to join each other’s worlds we get the message “Unable to connect to world”. Recently after the update on December 16th, it worked for about a week without having any issues, but now it has gone back to not letting us connect to the worlds. Both of us are able to connect to other people’s worlds, but not each other’s, we’ve tried many things to fix this but so far nothing has worked. If you have any ideas for what we should do please let me know, thank you so much!

I have had this same problem! After sooo many trials and errors I figured it out. I went into settings on the IPad, not in the Minecraft app. Went to Minecraft and allowed access to “Local Network” went into Minecraft and boom! It works! Hope this helps.