Holding the attack button in the new touch controls does not attack mobs and players continously.

Can you upload a video of this happening? If the video is too big, you can upload it elsewhere and link it here. 

Here ya go lad. I uploaded

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We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-14419, so we will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.

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