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never in my life have those worked for me. My family used to infuriate me talking about what they saw and telling me to relax my eyes. WTF is relax your eyes!
If all they ever told you was to relax your eyes then it's not surprising they don't work for you, that's not very helpful! Feel free to skip the rest of this if you don't want advice on how to get them to work.
For me, the best way to get them to work is to cross my eyes and let my gaze drift out of focus. When I was a kid I read a tip in a book to press your nose up to the book, look at the picture, and keep them in that position as you pull away. That works well for me too if I'm having trouble doing it on my own.
I can do the out of focus thing on command, but even with the other tips you gave here i could never see it.
Crossing your eyes will show you the opposite effect though, something being concave instead of convex.
You still get the image, but that explains why they’ve always been concave for me 😂
So, I never had to try, it just always worked for me. But, a friend of mine once said that she got it to work by holding her finger up in front of her face, like a foot away, and then looking past the finger at something farther away. Then, back to the finger. Looking past her finger, she'd see two of the finger, but as soon as she was thinking about the finger, she'd focus again on it and start just seeing the one finger. The trick to the magic eye is basically getting to where you can deliberately focus past the finger and still look at it? I don't know, I just look and see the image. Once, someone made a fake one that had no image to try to mess with me. There's also a neat trick where you can immediately see the difference in side by side images by "magic eye-ing" them. The differences kinda flicker or glow, it's hard to explain.