Add a player to the allowlist

How to add players to your Minecraft server's allowlist.

Allowlisting is a feature that allows you to limit the players who can access your server, increasing its security. When enabled, only allowlisted players can join your server.

This guide only works on Bedrock Edition. We have a separate guide for Java Edition.

Allowlisting was previously known as whitelisting prior to the Bedrock 1.19 update.

Enabling the allowlist

Head over to the Game Panel and select "File Manager" on the sidebar menu.

Click on the server.properties file to edit it.

Change the allow-list value to true.

Once done, click "Save File" and restart your server to update the configuration.

Adding and removing players

Head over to the Game Panel and select "Console" on the sidebar menu.

Make sure your server is online. You can now type "allowlist add <username>" in the console. Make sure you replace "username" with the username of the player you wish to allowlist.

You can use "allowlist remove <username>" to remove the player from the allowlist.