Whenever I play on my friend's world and he goes out of my simulation distance and comes back his skin chances into a steve skin. It stays as a Steve until I rejoin the world.
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In Settings > Profile, is "Only Allow Trusted Skins" enabled? If so, does disabling it fix the issue?