If Modern Warfare shows “Friend Request Sending Failed,” confirm your friend’s Activision ID and add them through the game’s Social menu. Activision documents that normal process, along with crossplay settings and Social-menu tools, but its support pages do not identify a guaranteed fix for this specific error.
Add the friend using their Activision ID
- Ask your friend to confirm their Activision ID from their account or game screen. Check the spelling and any suffix. Activision notes that some older IDs do not have numbers after the player name, so do not assume every ID needs a numeric suffix.
- In Modern Warfare, open Social, go to the Friends tab, choose Invite Friends, then select Enter Activision Account.
- Enter the confirmed ID. Activision’s example format is
PlayerName#1234567. The documented steps appear in its Modern Warfare crossplay instructions, dated October 27, 2019; menu labels may differ in later versions.
Check crossplay for players on different platforms
If you and your friend use different platforms, check Options → Account and confirm crossplay is enabled. Activision says crossplay is enabled by default, but this setting is still worth verifying. Its documentation does not say that changing crossplay resolves this exact friend-request error.
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Review requests and blocked players
In the Social menu, check the sent and received friend-request tabs. An existing request may need to be accepted rather than sent again. Also check the blocked-player list on both accounts and remove an accidental block if appropriate. Activision describes these Social-menu features in its Modern Warfare account registration and in-game account guidance, dated September 15, 2021. Treat these as useful checks, not a confirmed remedy for the error.
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If the request still fails
Contact Activision Support with the exact error message, both players’ platforms, and the steps you tried. Activision’s reviewed guidance covers account and friend management, not the underlying cause of “Friend Request Sending Failed,” so no universal fix is established.
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- SHARE BUTTON: Seamlessly capture and share content such as screenshots, recordings, and more with the new Share button.
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