Game laggy, unresponsive, only accepts player input after tapped twice or more

Last night I noticed that Minecraft was very very buggy. I would have to tap up to 4 times for something to process as a single click, and it was extremely tedious, if not completely impossible, to do double tapping or move items in-game, such as the double-tap feature to condense items into a single spot in the inventory. The only things that were unaffected were movement controls and pausing the game. I decided it could be because it was late and my WiFi was down at the time (something it does every night between 9 PM and 7 AM), and went to bed. When I was looking at it this afternoon, I discovered that the problem hadn't gone away, and that it was still unresponsive and buggy in the exact same way. I recently updated my phone to iOS 16.4.1 so that could be it, but I don't think so; earlier in the day I had played for about 6 hours with no issues. My WiFi works well, and I have tried numerous times to shut the app down and force quit, but the problem persists. The game is not fun or enjoyable right now and I can't really play it until this is fixed :/