Ever since version 1.21.70 (spring to life update) my Minecraft world that I’ve had for almost 10 years now will completely freeze my device (iPad pro 12.9in 4th gen, 2020, running iPadOS 18.5–although it was having the same freezing issue on iPadOS 18.3.2 back when 1.21.70 released) for 1-3 seconds no matter what I’m doing (flying, walking, standing still not even touching the screen, mining, etc.) every 30-45 seconds after the previous freeze in an endless cycle. I’ve tried reducing my graphics settings from 16 chunks and unlimited frame rate (I’ve never had any issues in the 4 years I’ve had this iPad while playing this exact world) to the lowest settings possible on iOS and then restarting the app/world, but it still freezes every 30-45 seconds no matter what. I have no clue what could be causing this issue but it makes playing the game really annoying when you’re in the middle of placing blocks and suddenly you can’t place blocks or move at all, the sound cuts out, and then the game comes back after 3 seconds (but because it still registered the last touch on the screen before the freeze, it then causes the game to glitch out and break/place random blocks).
All of the recent updates have not addressed or solved this issue and it really, genuinely, ruins the gameplay so much that I can’t play for more than 15 minutes before getting frustrated with how much the game is freezing for literally no explainable reason.
I figured out the issue: My minecraft world, being as old as it is, had a lot of old resource packs (not currently activated, by the way) and I had no way of deleting them through the minecraft app (they don’t show up when I go to “Storage” in the settings). I figured since I’ve tried everything else, I’d try deleting the files for the unactivated resource/behavior packs through the ios files app in the Minecraft Worlds folder under my current world. After deleting the files under my world for the resource_packs and behavior_packs and deleting their corresponding resource packs history JSON files, this issue has gone away. Have tested this on multiple worlds having the same issue and it has fixed it on all of them.
I’m not sure why there’s no option of deleting the 3rd party resource/behavior packs that are on a specific world and not in the minecraft marketplace, but manually deleting them in the files app has fixed everything.