When building/editing your world and then "exiting" while still in said world (this is a soft exit, turning the phone off, going to the iPhone apps page, or moving to another app. This is NOT a force close) going back into the Minecraft app it will start in the Main Menu, causing you to re-select your world which opens with the previous edits gone, everything including character position is returned to a previous saved state.
I can replicate this consistently.
The only way I've found to make sure it "saves" is to exit to the main menu. This will save the world building but sometimes it will still return the character to the previous "save" and not the latest "save".
This side of it is not as consistent.
Also this is 0.11.1, as is says on the main menu but I cannot select 0.11.1 so I chose Beta 6 instead.
Cleaning up all old issues, please reply if affects 0.12.1