REALMS-5079Replacing and Opening realm does not work
An error message appears when attempting to replace a realm and even opening it failed (once closed)... The because you can’t connect to it everything else fails.
This makes the realms service un-usable if you are a new subscriber (AKA me).
Please do fix this as soon as possible as it does not work at all. 
Environment
Minecraft Bedrock (Nintendo Switch), Version 1.16.1
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Replacing and Opening realm does not work
An error message appears when attempting to replace a realm and even opening it failed (once closed)... The because you can’t connect to it everything else fails.
This makes the realms service us-usable if you are a new subscriber (AKA me).
Please do fix this as soon as possible as it does not work at all.
Environment
Minecraft Bedrock (Nintendo Switch), Version 1.16.1
An error message appears when attempting to replace a realm and even opening it failed (once closed)... The because you can’t connect to it everything else fails.
This makes the realms service u
s-usable if you are a new subscriber (AKA me).Please do fix this as soon as possible as it does not work at all.
An error message appears when attempting to replace a realm and even opening it failed (once closed)... The because you can’t connect to it everything else fails.
This makes the realms service un-usable if you are a new subscriber (AKA me).
Please do fix this as soon as possible as it does not work at all.
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duplicates
Thank you for your report!
We're tracking this issue in REALMS-474, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
A fix for the upload issue specific to Switch has been announced and will be available in an upcoming release. No date is available for that however. Also note that after a failure occurs there may be a delay before the realm is accessible again while it recovers.
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