Steam: How To Fix Friends Not Working Issue - Ultimate Guide

With our help, you will see that knowing how to fix Friends Not Working Issue is easier than you thought in Steam.

What to know about the problem of friends not working in Steam?

It is a problem with the list of friends that we have and that in some cases it happens that we cannot load it for different reasons, we know this through a message that indicates that there are no friends to show, now to have an idea of How to fix Friends Not Working Issue there are some considerations to follow that will be presented next in this guide, let's see.

How to fix Friends Not Working Issue in Steam?

As for How to fix the problem of friends does not work in Steam our first option for this is to do a steam restart, which consists of ending the process so that it starts from scratch, when we are in Windows 10 or 11 we have to press Ctrl Alt Delete, and we will give in the task manager, we have to right-click on steam in the processes tab to finish it, and we restart our PC, we start it again, and we enter our user profile, we click on friends to see if the list appears noting if the problem is still or not, if it continues to appear, we must deactivate our security software, be it a firewall or tool that we use, after that we check, considering that in some cases a blockage occurs by the firewall or antivirus.

Another important option to consider is cleaning the application cache, considering that due to frequent updates it is possible that it is saved in the download cache, this causes an oversized one, causing an interruption in some functions, then eliminating the cache is necessary considering that it does not affect the games at all, now any file that is required will be downloaded again, to do this we start the application and enter the client to configure the downloads in the pop-up box, here we have the option to eliminate the download cache, a restart of the application will occur, and we will have to log in again, we will only have to check if our friends list will appear now.

We hope that the detailed information here on How to fix Friends Not Working Issue has been useful for your return to stability in Steam.

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