Bedrock 26.50 & 26.51 hotfix iPad OS have to delete options file every time the app starts up

This issue began with 26.50 and is still consistent after the 26.51 hotfix, with only slightly different symptoms. When I start up the app, instead of getting the crash others have reported, the game loads into the opening menu screen, but any button pressed after that does not work. In 26.50, the entire touch screen seemed frozen, but in 26.51, the buttons can be pressed but lead to an endless wallpaper screen that never loads into the game. This happens whether I press “play,” “settings,” or “profile.” The only fix that has worked so far is deleting the options file from my iPad (at which point I must reset all my options in the game), but the issue reoccurs if I quit the app and launch it again, as though the file is becoming newly corrupted every time. Video attached. In the video, I have launched the game and press “play.”