When Forza Horizon 6 throws a Feature Locked pop-up saying entry to user-generated content material is restricted by your profile, the sport is failing a permission verify on the Xbox account behind your gamertag.

That is why the lock normally hits shared options such because the Auction House, items, tunes, liveries, and different neighborhood content material as an alternative of the entire sport.

The complicated half is that a couple of layer can lead to the identical outcome. The Auction House can keep unavailable early within the sport earlier than the Festival Playlist unlocks. Xbox privateness or household settings can even block neighborhood options outright.

On PC, the Xbox app, Microsoft Store, or Steam can hold previous sign-in permissions cached after you already modified the precise setting on the internet. That is why a reinstall normally modifications nothing.

1. Make Sure This Is the Profile Lock and Not Just the Normal Auction House Progress Gate

Start by separating the 2 most typical lookalikes. In Forza Horizon 6, the Auction House can keep unavailable as a result of you haven’t progressed far sufficient by the opening circulate. That is totally different from the profile restriction message, which factors to Xbox account permissions as an alternative.

If the sport particularly says entry to user-generated content material is restricted by your profile, deal with that as an account-permission situation. If solely the Auction House is greyed out and nothing else seems restricted, early-game development is the extra possible clarification.

1. If solely the Auction House is grayed out, hold progressing by the opening tutorial till the Festival Playlist unlocks.
   

   

2. If the sport explicitly says entry to user-generated content material is restricted by your profile privateness settings, transfer to the Xbox privateness checks subsequent.
3. If the identical restriction can be affecting items, tunes, automobile designs, or liveries, that’s one other sturdy signal that is an account-permission downside relatively than a tutorial gate.

Once you recognize it’s the actual profile lock, the quickest repair is normally in Xbox privateness settings relatively than within the sport menus.

2. Open the Xbox Privacy Settings and Allow Community Content

Forza routes shared creations by the Xbox account’s privateness and online-safety layer. If that account will not be allowed to view neighborhood creations or see different participant profiles, the sport can block the Auction House and different social content material even when you’re signed in appropriately.

This is crucial a part of the article as a result of it’s the setting pair most straight tied to the message you’re seeing.

1. Open account.xbox.com/Settings or xbox.com/person/settings/privacy-and-safety and check in with the identical Xbox account or gamertag you utilize in Forza Horizon 6.
   

   

2. Under the Xbox privateness part, set You can see and add neighborhood creations to Everyone.
   

   

3. Set See different folks’s Xbox Live profiles to Everyone as nicely.
   

   

4. If multiplayer or convoys are additionally failing, set You can be part of multiplayer video games and You can be part of cross-network play to Allow.
   

   

5. Save the web page earlier than leaving it.

If a kind of permissions was blocked, the message usually clears after the account refreshes. If the settings already look appropriate otherwise you can not change them in any respect, verify whether or not the account remains to be ruled by household controls.

3. Check for Child-Account or Family Restrictions

Xbox privateness toggles can look appropriate however nonetheless behave in another way when the profile is handled as a toddler account or is managed by a household organizer. In that case, the seen setting will not be all the time the ultimate authority.

This is why some gamers change the net settings and nonetheless get nowhere. Family controls can sit above the profile’s personal privateness toggles, so the true restriction could also be coming from the household layer or from the account’s beginning date relatively than from the person toggle you simply modified.

If the account is already a standard grownup account with no household administration, skip this technique and transfer on to the sign-in refresh.

1. Check the Microsoft account’s beginning date and ensure the account will not be being handled as beneath 18.
   

   

2. If the account belongs to a household group, have the grownup organizer assessment the member’s online-safety and privateness permissions from the family-controls facet as nicely.
3. If you’re on an Xbox console, open Settings > Account > Privacy & on-line security > Xbox privateness and make sure the console is utilizing the identical permissions you simply checked on the internet.
4. After any age or family-setting change, signal out and again in earlier than testing Forza Horizon 6 once more.

If the account was nonetheless being handled as a toddler account, that normally issues greater than any reinstall or cache clear. If the profile is now allowed to use neighborhood content material and the sport remains to be caught, refresh the sign-in state in every single place the account is cached subsequent in Method 4.

4. Refresh the Xbox Sign-In State Across the Xbox App, Microsoft Store, and Steam

Even after the precise privateness settings are in place, Forza Horizon 6 can hold studying older permissions from cached Xbox tokens. This is very frequent on PC, the place the sport could be pulling account state from a number of locations without delay. If you haven’t modified the privateness settings but, do this first and skip this department for now.

If the web site seems mounted however the sport nonetheless behaves like nothing modified, deal with that as a sync downside between the account and the apps which are feeding it into Forza. If the Xbox app itself is not going to open or check in on Windows, use this Xbox app gained’t open information first.

1. Sign out of your Xbox account on the Xbox app, Microsoft Store, and the Microsoft account web site, then signal again in in every single place.
   

   

2. If you play on Steam, return to Forza’s Start Game display, select Sign Out, and relink the right Xbox account if the improper one was hooked up.
   

   

3. Make certain the linked Microsoft account is definitely signed up to Xbox and has the gamertag you count on to use in Forza Horizon 6.
4. Restart the sport fully after the sign-in refresh as an alternative of solely backing out to the earlier menu.

If the error was being fed by stale sign-in state, that is usually the place it clears. If the warning disappears right here, cease and hold the corrected account hyperlink in place. If nothing modifications after the total sign-out cycle, proceed to Method 5 and refresh the Windows Xbox id layer itself.

5. On PC, Update Gaming Services and Clear the Old Xbox Identity Cache

On Windows, Forza Horizon 6 depends upon greater than the sport launcher. Gaming Services, Xbox id elements, cached Xbl credentials, and some background providers all sit between the sport and your account permissions. Use this solely on PC. Console gamers ought to skip to the connectivity and help checks as an alternative.

That is why the net settings could be proper whereas the PC nonetheless behaves as if they’re improper. Windows should be handing Forza an older Xbox id token than the one which displays your present permissions.

1. Open the Microsoft Store, go to Downloads, and replace Gaming Services.
   

   

2. Open Credential Manager, go to Windows Credentials, and take away entries that begin with Xbl.
   

   

3. Open %localappdata%, discover the Microsoft.XboxIdentitySupplier… bundle folder, open AC > TokenBroker, and delete the Accounts and Cache folders in the event that they exist.
4. Open Services in Windows and restart Xbox Live Network Service, Xbox Live Game Save, and Xbox Live Auth Manager.
   

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5. Restart Windows after which open Forza Horizon 6 once more.