Unable to easily pick up a fish in a bucket using touch controls - interact button is needed

I am also having issues with catching fish in buckets. I'm on Xbox One S Bedrock Edition v1.4.0.

When trying to catch fish in my bucket, it would delete the fish, and the bucket would still be empty, unless I had a filled water bucket, and tried to catch fish again.

Some "me too" and a comment:

Me too: on Xbox One 1.4.2, I found that trying to catch salmon in my 3x3x2 deep fish tank was pretty frustrating, as the bucket would grab the fish and then immediately dump it back out. This did not happen when catching fish in rivers, and it seemed to go better if I wedged myself back into a corner and tried to catch fish farther away. So maybe it's detecting the non-water blocks near the fish and causing the Fish Bucket to immediately empty? It kinda reminds me of the old ~1.2 era bug of double-placing torches when walking, or the quick open-close of gates when walking towards them.

Comment: the wiki says that to obtain a Fish Bucket you apply a Water Bucket to a Fish. I interpreted this to mean that an empty bucket would not work - it has to be a Water Bucket. My experience chasing and catching fish under water seemed to confirm this behavior. And so @KraftyFox I think that you are supposed to have a full bucket; that part isn't a bug.

The catch-and-release behavior does seem to be a bug.

I never did have an empty bucket actually delete the fish, though. It just took the source block of water and the fish got away. If empty buckets delete fish (and don't result in a Fish Bucket) then that is also a bug I'd think.

The wiki also says that an empty bucket works in Bedrock.

I’ve had a lot of trouble getting fish into buckets since the update from Legacy to Bedrock, but I’ve been assuming that it is my epic lack of coordination at fault (PS4).

This appears to be fixed

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