Issue

Sometimes, after loading up Minecraft Bedrock Edition, the setting “Screen Animations” (Settings > Video) is reset to the default state of “Enabled”. I have noticed this behaviour for the last 4 updates, and between them, after loading up my Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs, the setting has been re-enabled. No other settings have this same issue, but it appears that the state of “Screen Animations” has some persistence issues.

Reproducing

This one has been really hard to reproduce, as I have only been able to consistently notice the incorrect behaviour after new updates. It’s worth noting that I launch Bedrock directly by searching for “Minecraft” on Windows rather than going through the launcher. I have tried restarting my computer and the game, and it seems to happen more often after a crash (even if the setting has been enabled for multiple other restarts). I am an addon developer, and I do use `/reload all` quite a bit, which may somehow be a contributing factor.

Other Notes

This is only seeming to be an issue more recently specifically with opening chat to type a message where you have to wait for the UI to open before being able to type, whereas on Java you can immediately type and have all inputs captured. A fix would of course be having “Screen Animations” remain persistent, though this might be a hard issue to track down if it’s only on some crashes/restarts/updates.