How to play private map with friend who doesn't have UEFN

I made a map in UEFN and I want to play it with a friend without having to publish it. My friend doesn’t have UEFN either and, therefore, she is not in my team or anything.

When I launch the session and invite her to my party, she clicks the yellow “Join” button. It loads for some seconds but when it gets to the “Preparing” phase, it shows an error:
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Matchmaking error (2)
You can’t play this gamemode right now.

How can I fix this or is there another way to play with them (without them having UEFN)?

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Do they have to have UEFN to be in your team ?,
I was thinking about creating a team with my kids so they could help me test, only one is over 18, none have UEFN, and some use consoles.

That’s what I am asking. My friend doesn’t have UEFN either, I just want them to be able to join my island and play. Kinda like you could in creative 1.0, where being in the same party allowed you to play together.

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I have a private island published i can invite stangers. not sure what is stopping people from joining yours. could be your island settings match making , there is a place to make map public and you may not assigned player spawners priority groups I know its alot lol just trying to help identify your problem. I don’t think you can invite people to a live editing match has to be the current published activated map.

Just seen this, may help

I cannot find such option… Can you send a screenshot which shows where it is?

Is there any news? Summer is finishing and I cannot create a team because I am not over 18. What can I do?

I tried creating another account but I need to send a picture or enter a CC, which I obviously don’t have. Is there any way to play PRIVATELY with friends? Why do you even need to be 18+?

Hey, bad news, you cant do that, to play with your friends you need to publish the map as a creator which to be creator u need to be 18+, ofc then you can publish it as a invisible which mean only ppl with island code can join.