Basically, I had just downloaded the game, so I went to configure the controls.
I wanted to check if the issue where the "hidden joystick" treated the entire left side of the screen as the joystick was still happening.
I'm not sure exactly what I did—I know I moved the visible joystick to the right side, and before I realized it, the hidden joystick had gotten stuck on the right side.
The problem persisted even after quitting and restarting the game, but everything went back to normal once I reset the settings to default.
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