Same issues here on my iPad Pro 12.9 inch ML0F2LL/A running iOS 14.3 and Minecraft 1.16.201.
One additional note is that I do not always see the loading progress bar get all the way to the end; it disappears with about 20% of the green bar visible.
I feel like it started around when I did the iOS update from 14.2 to 14.3 or something.
So far I have tried the following things that do not consistently help, if they help at all:
Uninstall minecraft, reinstall it
Log out of xbox live, just use Steve
Change resource packs for a world
Load a new world using just the default resource pack
Soft reboot the ipad
Hard reboot the ipad
Reset network settings on ipad
Possible workarounds:
By reducing my render distance from 24 chunks to 8 chunks, I was just able to load worlds five times in a row in about 30 seconds or less each time. __That's a much much better success rate and load time than I was having before. Hope that helps players and developers and parents troubleshooting their kids stuff like me 🙂
I lost all my worlds too. As i uninstalled and reinstalled
I was just about to see a rise that it only happened an iPad Pro and that the developers or testers do not have access to one. It looks like it is happening on more devices than just that though. For what it’s worth my 10-year-old child seems to be fine playing at a render distance of eight. It is unfortunate that the highest powered tablet devices can’t run the game thoug