Lost All My Game Center Friends :(

I've lost all my lovely Game Center friends. They were there last night, and this morning they're all gone from my list. Facebook pals are still there, but Game Center chums have vanished?

This is makes me very sad as I had lovely friends, and I want them back! *stamps feet*

I had taken a Hay Day sabbatical due to a hectic busy life, but I'm back again but with no friends!

I found 2 on my last helpers tab, and I asked to be their in game friend.

My my friend tag number is #J20GPGPU if anyone here used to be my friend.

Is there any possible way of getting them back, or finding them?

Oh no! That's terrible! I would be very upset if that happened to me :( I hope your friends find your post!!

Just a thought--does the icon pop up that shows you are signed in to GC when you opened the game?
sometimes GC signs me out. So I have to open GC and sign in again.

There's some posts around by Ranger describing how to correct a bug in Game Center and make it reconnect itself to Hay Day.

Ooooh, sparkly pops in with a glimmer of hope! *fingers crossed*

I'm so unhappy Neen! Apparently they can see me, but I can't see them, so I can't help them out. I know this as one of my family is a Game Center friend. I've found some lovely new friends today from this forum, but none of my old friends have seen this. *fingers crossed

Sparkly, I am signed in. My name pops up in the little sign when I open Hay Day. I checked the settings, and I'm definitely signed in. It's strange that my friends were there last night, and gone today, as I have changed nothing. I even downloaded the OS update on the off chance they would come back. Sadly to no avail.

Rbcrewser, I searched that post and tried what he suggested and no luck :( I'm going to try it again. It's strange that they can see me but I can't see them.

Ruby, this happened when Apple pulled the plug on Game Centre. If you search you will find threads on this. If you updated to iOS10, then it's pretty impossible to get your friends back. If you didn't update and are still running iOS9.35, then adding a new picture in the GC ap will bring your friends back, but you have to do this each time you want to play HD.

I have not tried Ranger's fix, as he said in the post that after a short while GC goes wrong, but he didn't explain what he meant by that, and I'm not willing to risk my fragile connection to GC on a fix that causes GC to "go wrong". If you try it and it works, then let us know, please.

Glademaid, it’s all so frustrating. I hate anything ‘beating’ me, so I’ve been online most of the day searching for ways to fix it.


Unfortunately I did update to iOS 10. Had I known that they would change the way Game Centre worked I would maybe have waited.


Ranger’s ‘fix’ is the exact same ‘fix’ that was given out in the Apple forums after the iOS 9.2 update. It was stated it was a temporary fix for people who were getting a ‘blank, white’ Game Centre page. Although it was apparently meant to be a temporary fix, it worked and continued to work for some people.


This is the ‘fix’


– Close all running apps
– Go into airplane mode
– Power off the device
– Power on the device
– Go to settings -> Game Center and log out of the game Center.
– Disable airplane mode and enable wifi
– Log back into Game Center from settings->Game Center


I have tried this a few times now to no avail. My Game Centre has not ‘gone wrong’ It is exactly the same as before - broken with no friends visible in Hay Day.


The most frustrating thing is that my friends can see me and visit my farm, but I can’t see them. My main enjoyment from Hay Day is helping people. It’s why I play the game. I can no longer help my old friends as I can’t see them.


I’m sad that you have lost your friends too. You can befriend me if you like. As I said I love to help, and I love to share, so I won’t come a’raidin ‘

This actually started to happen to me well before iOS 8 even. There were several people on the forums here who I could no longer see while they could see me in their GC. Repeated adding and deleting them when this was still a possibility never solved it either. I just gave up.

I do think a lot of times this issue can be caused by people getting new devices, resetting their device, and other issues that make for tiny changes, e.g. setting it up as a new device even if you use the exact same AppleID and GC name is not always going to yield the same results as restoring a new device from a prior backup of an older device. Even something simple as traveling with your device and have it connect to a foreign AppStore seems to throw it off.

Yeah Rbcrewser, that could be it - miscommunication in the device connecting to Game Centre. I did occasionally have problems in the past with it disconnecting and me losing friends in the process. Never anything on this scale! Every single friend gone.

I've have not changed a thing. Same iPad, same Apple ID. In fact the iPad hasn't left the house since I got it, and no one else is allowed to touch it haha.

I contacted Apple and they said it sounded like someone had used the 'Remove all Game Centre friends' option that is now in Game Centre. This did not happen. Surely if that happened then my friends would not be able to see me!

I'm hoping they all miraculously reappeared in the morning, as quick as they disappeared this morning.