i linked 2 portals but minecraft kept creating new ones

Please see the linked report for a brief explanation of portal linking. If you believe your issue is different, please provide exact coordinates of all of the portals and how they seem to connect.

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We're tracking this issue in MCPE-39609, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.

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