Are the servers for Minecraft down? People who play Minecraft are getting the error message “You Need to Authenticate Microsoft Services,” which means they can’t play their favorite game.
This error message started showing up here and there in 2021 and is still happening in 2022. Why did this message come to you? Is it because Minecraft is down or is it because of something else? What we know about it is as follows.
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The Minecraft error message “You Need to Authenticate to Microsoft Services” comes from a decision made by Microsoft in 2021. Since 2021, Microsoft has made it so that users need a Microsoft account to play Minecraft games.
This means that everyone who plays Minecraft will have to link their old Minecraft accounts to a Microsoft account. This can be either a Windows account or an Xbox Live account.
When your Microsoft account can’t connect to the iOS Minecraft PE app, the error message appears. There are many possible reasons for this.
The first thing you should try is turning off the game and restarting the device you’re using to play Minecraft. If this doesn’t work, try signing out and signing back in several times.
You can do this by going to the Settings menu, clicking on the profile tab, and then using an option to Sign Out of your Microsoft account. Just sign back in after you leave.
If the “You Need to Authenticate Microsoft Services” error still shows up after doing this, try changing the time settings. Set the system you use to host the Minecraft server to automatically set the time and time zones. This has been known to sometimes cause trouble. What you should do is this:
- Open Settings
- Go to the “Time & Language” page.
- Find the “Date and time” tab.
- Set the time to be set automatically and the time zone to be set automatically.
If none of these solutions have worked, the problem is probably not on your end. The Minecraft servers are probably down because something is wrong with them. If that’s the case, you might want to wait a few hours until they come back.