Hello @catsay1960, I'm glad that you love this game and it's wonderful to see players like you. I would like to inform you that this problem of sending / receiving lives is all due to FB and King team is doing their best to resolve the issue as they are completely aware of the hardships being faced by their loyal players. We can only hope this is fixed as early as possible. In the meantime you can open a king account and request lives from other king players as this is working perfectly.
My husband and I both play Candy Crush. Both on iPhones, however, he has a button to send lives to friends, I do not. Our app is up to date. Also, whenever I need lives, I use to be able to select “all friends” or “cc friends”. That isn’t the case any more. A select (20 or so) group of friends is listed and it’s the same few people every time. Any suggestions?
We are aware on the issue and understand that it's not ideal at the moment. We're doing our best to get this fixed, however, we do not have any estimation time for now. You can follow updates in the main thread here.
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