Can't change personal play mode without cheats. Touch controls cannot hold down to break blocks

Update: this issue seems to only affect my saved game. I started a new world and it works fine…. I still need help.

I noticed that my personal play mode doesn't match my global. The only way I can change it to survival, is to turn on cheats…. I made a copy and turned on cheats, then changed the personal play mode to survival and it worked.

I dont know what caused that in my game and how to fix it without cheats.

I allowed other players to come to my game and they can break blocks, and place items… This is frustrating.

You can edit the world settings to change personal game mode as “default”

Where is that setting on mobile? I only see one setting, and it's set to Survival, yet when I play and go to settings I see two (see image in my previous comment)

Is this enabled cheats on your world, If you not
Please attach your affected world to check that game mode

Cheats are not enabled. They were never enabled.

I don’t know how to export worlds on my Android. The game is in the app protected space and my file browser doesn't allow me to go to those folders.

Do you recommend an app to let me get to my saved game?

I wish there was a way to move the saved games from internal storage to external one.

Update: I noticed that I cannot delete addons from that world. I delete them, then after playing a bit and quitting, the addons reappear under the active resources….

Since I cannot play on default Survival mode, and I need to cheat to be able to change the mode. And since I cannot access the map files for further inspection.

I decided to delete that world. I don’t know what broke it, but it was working fine prior to the Wilderness Bound drop.

It is frustrating not to have the ability to export the world to test, because even worlds on external space are still not accessible by the pc or phone file apps.