PS5 online friends not showing

Good afternoon

Up until recently, Wednesday 15th August, I was able to see all my PS5 friends, online or offline, at the 'invite to game' section.

Now however, I can only see online/offline cross-platform friends, even though my PS5 friends are online and playing minecraft.

There has been no change of settings from my end, this happened just overnight.

I have completed the following to try solve the issue

1. reset internet
2. log out / log in
3. delete minecraft and reinstall in
4. logged out and in of the playstation account

any and all help would be very welcomed.

thanks