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I am using an iPad Air on iOS 8.1.3. Me and a friend are trying to become friends in Game Center. At first, we couldn't get any requests to show up. We both went to the Add friend feature and tried entering both usernames and email addresses and neither of us were getting a request from the other. I have tried restarting the iPad and signing out and signing back in. After persistence, we managed to get requests to show up on each others iPads, but it wouldn't let us accept the request. It would appear, we would hit accept and then the request would stay in the requests list like we had never hit accept. Then my Game Center homepage would sometimes not change, or sometimes it would say 1 request and 1 friend, and sometimes if i had recently hit accept multiple times, it would say 1 request and 2 friends, but when you go in the friends list, it is blank. The friend is also running iOS 8.1.3. I am new to using Apple products, and this would be my first Game Center friend.

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Greetings Alvin XD,
It seems you are unable use a Game Center feature. Have you attempted signing out and signing back in to Game Center? The following article provides the steps for signing out:
Using Game Center on your Mac or iOS device - Apple Support
iOS: Go to Settings and tap Game Center > Apple ID > Sign Out.
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Bobby_D

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Just in case, the following is what I did/saw :
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The Game Center app suggests primarily people I have met in real life... but have had NO online interaction with!
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2. Meetup.com. This is a 100% correlation! I'm in several local groups that use Meetup.com to schedule meetings, and ALL of these Game Center recommendations are memebers of Meetup groups that I too am a member of. That's how I've met most of them. But Meetup has no "friends" feature, and most of these people have had no online connection with me (Meetup messages etc.) through Meetup. We've just attended the same events--which do have online RSVP lists--or else we are merely listed as members of the same group(s). (But we're talking large groups, so I haven't actually met most of the members, and I have met most of these GC recommendations.) But how would Apple obtain my Meetup info? Again my Meetup account's email address is not my Apple ID, and I have never used that email address with any Apple service (although it is on my Contacts card).
3. Maybe Apple harvested my address book/contacts list (which does NOT contain these people), and also harvested the contacts lists of these people, AND also harvested the contacts lists of people we know in common who happen to have both of us listed. Then they put it all together. (That's a stretch: the people I know the best on Meetup--whose info I do have in Contacts--are Android users!) But again, why not recommend my actual contacts, instead of contacts-of-contacts? My actual contacts--which contain numerous iOS users and games--are notably absent from the recommendations (with one exception).
Obivously Apple cannot, and does not, literally know who I have met. (No foil hat for me!) But they DO seem to have some data source that correlates closely with people I have met (and Meetup activity especially). I'm dying to know how that's possible.
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