IMPORTANT! I discovered a temporary fix by updating the 3rd Party Site to a modern version and THEN RE-IMPORT YOUR SKIN BACK INTO THE GAME.
NOTICE! When you relaunch the game, your skin will TEMPORARILY NOT BE SHOWN but it is STILL SAVED, just enter to the select world screen then go back to the title screen, your skin SHOULD RELOAD.
I did some experimenting, skins bought from skinpacks or created from the character creator should work as normal. The Custom Skin made outside of the dressing room doesn't have any noticeable corrupt or missing files, and it still being shown inside the dressing room.
It's like Minecraft can't read the Skin File in game and since you can't have a blank skin, Minecraft substitutes it with a defalt skin.
1.21.40 and no issues with it.
I noticed this was fixed for me with 1.21.30 (I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S7) and it came back with 1.21.31.
This bug is still present as of 1.20.73 and I have a newish device (Samsung Galaxy Tab S7). The game freezes for no more than a second or two, and is most present near older chunks and especially near Villagers. I bought this tablet in 2021 for the sake of running Minecraft better (I had an outdated tablet then) and it's been almost 3 years and I am having the worse lag (mostly freezing) I have ever seen and I can't do anything about it. I have lowered my render distance, lowered my simulation distance, I even did research and tried clearing areas that cause the slightest, slightest bit of lag with no results (other than FPS improvements). Please, prioritize this bug to be fixed. It's ridiculous that it's been over 6 months and no updates fixed this issue in the slightest. I don't know if this issue is present on every Andriod device, but I'm not willing to spend money I don't have on a device that may or may not fix the problem. I hope this helps someone, but it likely won't.
I am using an Andriod, specifically a Samsung Galaxy tab s7. Unfortunately, It is very difficult to screen record the issue as I would need to be recording before the game fails to load in the first place, which mentioned in the report is unrepeatble on command, but is by random chance. I do try to clear memory and delete unnecessary files whenever I can.
A simmilar or the same issue also occurs when I change the mobile control layout scheme, lets say from Joystick to D-Pad, and back to Joystick, the original customization of the controls from the Joystick previously are reverted back to default.
Affects beta/preview 1.20.30.21
Also doesn't work in 1.19.30.
It got fixed in the recent Beta, lower render distance does work to solve the issue.
It was ment to say "before 1.18.0"
Also, as well as further investigation, it moves chunks over existing ones in a seperate perspective.
I have the same issue, when me and my sister play, her skin is normal, but then when she looks at me, I have the Steve skin when in my perspective, I have my normal skin.
I need help or I will be dead when trying to put things away.
Reminds me of an earlier issue. I have it too but isn't as bad as before but very irritating when fighting mobs.