When you fly in Creative or Spectator mode, press the sneak key and have it set to "toggle" mode in the accessibility settings, you will keep flying downwards until you hit the ground or die in the void.
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MC-163284
lock shift makes flying go strait down, it's really annoying
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MC-163420
Toggle shift affects creative mode flying. (grass texture looks weird)
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MC-167390
Flying in creative / spectator causes player to descend if Sneak Toggle enabled
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MC-182183
Creative mode flying inconsistent
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MC-234963
Sneak toggle not applicable when flying
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This is a parity issue, as this does not happen on bedrock when using a controller and the parity issue was introduced in the buzzy bees update.
Why is this considered to be working as intended? I recently started using the Sneak: Toggle setting, and I find this interaction between the sneak setting and fly mode controls to be quite unintuitive.
For one thing, sneaking is not something you can even do while flying, so I wouldn't expect a setting related to sneaking to affect flying controls.
Further, with the current behavior, with the Sneak setting set to Hold (which is the default), all 6 directional movement keys (WASD, Shift, and Space on a US keyboard) behave as momentary inputs in fly mode: you move as long as you hold one of those 6 buttons down. But, with Sneak set to Toggle, the behavior of just 1 of those 6 keys gets modified. Going down is is now a toggle control but going up is is still momentary! Surely this inconsistent control behavior cannot be the intended behavior?
This is WAI. Press your bound sneak button again to stop going down.