Whispers not working UNLESS Friended

I cannot Whisper anyone NOT already on my Friend list. Once they are Friended, no problem. But if I’d like to Whisper someone in the Trade channel, for example, I cannot unless I invite them to be a Friend first. 1) This is awkward. 2) Most times, players will ignore Friend requests from random people. This is really affecting my game experience. Please help.

See if this fixes your issue… let me know

Thank you for responding! All my settings in privacy are enabled and I am public. Not sure if I accidentally went private and now the settings won’t reset??

Thank you, though!

Interesting, not sure what else to offer… I’m assuming you’ve searched posts on here already. Can always check Reddit posts to see if there are other solutions.

To the guy who can’t whisper. Are you playing with xbox gamepass? Coz i do and i have the same problem.