Minecraft – Is it possible to share Minecraft texture pack on iPad through family sharing

Local Area Network

When on the same network, you and your friend can easily join each other's worlds. First, the host must load up a world. Then your friend taps on Play, and there should be an extra world with your username, highlighted in purple.

Multiplayer for Minecraft PE

You may buy an app for $2.99 that allows you to host and join servers with only your device. With the app, you can join PocketMine servers and servers created by other users. Voice chat is one of the features in this app that makes it great. However, there is a player limit of 4 on regular servers. Using this app to join PocketMine servers is better because it lists some great servers available to you.

PockeMine-MP

You can also host a server on a computer and then join on your device. Tap edit and then external. Enter your public IP and keep the port default if you do not know what to do. Make sure you know how to port forward, or this will not work. Remember that you have to manually add servers. You can find great servers on the Minecraft Forums.

Hope these solutions helped!

You may have an easier time buying the Java Edition and creating an account there. Your question wasn't too clear on whether or not you two share a laptop or necessarily want to share an account, but in either case it's pretty simple to make an account for both of you here.

In this case you create a Mojang account and it's completely independent of a Microsoft account (as your comments mentioned you'd like to avoid).

This takes Microsoft out of the equation entirely but it doesn't allow for you to create a "child" account necessarily or create parental controls. But in this case you just set up an account and you're ready to roll.

Plus the Java edition has the added bonus of much more customization compared to the Windows edition (which charges for things you can get and do for free in the Java edition).