I can’t receive lives from friends

Welcome to Soda Community @ragrunberg

I am sorry to hear this and that you deinstalled your game 😕. We never just advise to uninstall the game because that will make you lose all boosters as they are stored in your device's memory. Your progress and gold bars are registered on King's servers.

In case you have lost boosters that you purchased and have not yet used, please contact Player Support; they can replace it. Since you play on a mobile device (iOS), you can contact directly from the device.  That way Player Support will automatically get your purchase history and transactions. All you need to do is:

- Tap on the blue gear

- Tap on the ? mark

- Tap on “My Purchases“

-  Choose and tap on a topic that is closest to your question/issue

- Scroll down to the bottom and tap on "Contact Us"

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Are your friends team members of your team so they can help with Bake a Cake? You can check this in your own game by opening the icon Teams and tapping "Team". Then you can see who your team members are. If you have the new Social Hub you can share links with friends to receive and send lives and boosters. Find more info here. The new Friendship system has had some bugs and issues which the Studio has improved. Hopefully the fix will be released this week.