Before the Nintendo Switch 1.16.21 hotfix, the first way I noticed that my Nintendo Switch was freezing was while using commands in chat. Then I investigated further and realized that any text, not just in chat, but in an anvil or on a sign too, was freezing the game. I then realized that exiting the software was freezing it too. When I got on here to report it and saw the post, I figured that everything would be fixed after a week or so.
However, only a part of it was fixed in the hotfix. My game still freezes whenever type something. Mojang, please fix this, it's really annoying for when I need to talk in chat or rename something.
Steps to reproduce:
Open the Nintendo Switch Bedrock 1.16.21 version of Minecraft and sign in to a Microsoft account.
Go into any world (regular world, friend's world, server, realm) that allows you to type on a sign, on an anvil, in chat, or in some other way.
Type a few letters and confirm it. You should be able to exit the keyboard, but right after the game should freeze.
Edit:
I think they fixed it? It seems like some people have it solved and some don't. I think I'm one of the lucky ones, it isn't happening to me anymore. But it seems like it is still to some people.
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Does it affect 1.16.40?

Doesn't look like it

This clones MCPE-95621.

It doesn't... did you read it? It's 1.16.21, not .20
.21 was supposed to be the fixed version

still happens on 1.16.4, but worse. Now it crashes and the game takes like 20 mins to load.
Thank you for your report
If an issue hasn't been fully fixed, you can add information to the original ticket, there's no need to create a new one. For that reason, this ticket is being resolved and linked as a Duplicate of MCPE-95621.
I've left a comment there stating that it still occurs - Hope to see it fixed soon!
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Oh, okay. Sorry that I didn't understand that this is considered a duplicate
I have this behavior also under Windows 10 and for over 1,5 years.
The longer the game runs, the more likely this bug becomes.