Realm Render Distance Reduced After Release of 1.18

The realm that my family has been playing on for the past few months had it's render distanced statically reduced when 1.18 released. I loaded up the client and then the game. Went to my realm list and restarted our world so we could have a fresh start and out of no where all I see is fog. I've tried increasing the render distance and simulation distance but nothing seems to bring it back to how it used to be. Prior to the 1.18 update, when we were playing on our realm, we were playing on default settings. When I bought the realm and created the world, I didn't change any settings. Is there a way for the render distance to be fixed back to default?