When playing in a split screen co-op game, if one controller turns off at all, all other players have both of their controller sticks immobilized. The left and right sticks do nothing, and are frozen in whatever direction they were last pointed. Turning on the off controller fixes this.
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We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-62491, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
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