When opening and closing minecraft pocket edition on android (not Windows 10) the custom skins from the gallery replace Steve or Alex, this is annoying because all the time you have to put the skin and this did not happen before, I have seen that the same bug has been registered in MCPE-32089 But this bug is from 1.17.0.54 Beta Edition. I thought it was my phone but other friends experience the same bug. This bug is quite old, I don't remember very well but I think 1.16.210
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We're tracking this issue in MCPE-32089, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
Updated the ticket to set an affected version to include 1.17.0.54
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