I just defeated 6 withers then created a 6-beacon, then left to work on a building project (in chunks that did not have the beacons in it). I left, then returned and went back to my base (where the beacon is) and found that I wasn't getting the effects anymore. I tried moving around, then continued to look into the beacon's GUI, to find that all of them had reset and weren't powered or have any effects selected. I was confused, so powered them again, went into unloaded chunks, rejoined then returned to find the beacons were reset again. I doubt this is intentional, as it'd be really annoying to have to repower the beacons all the time, as it would be a waste of time and resources.
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I seem to have a similar issue, I have multiple beacons set up and sometimes when I start the game (solo survival) some of the beacons are de-powered and need to be charged again (I'm using iron).
I have this issue with just a single beacon. It was set to Haste 2 (mining improvement). I've changed it to Speed 2, but two times I've rejoined my single player world still have the Speed 2 buff, but immediately get Haste 2 applied and Speed 2 times out. In the beacon UI it has reset to Haste 2.
Running latest Java edition on Windows 7.
I've been testing it, and it seems that it is actually whenever I leave my game, that makes the problem a bit simpler!