And the world was an upgrade from 1.12 to 1.13...
I believe this is a render distance issue. Realms is functionally crippled. My understanding is that the server side render distance is set to 10. This cannot be changed by the user. Setting your own render distance higher than 10 has no effect. Presumably done to reduce the processing power used by a realm. I now use Hamachi by LogMeIn to host my own server. Realms, as currently parameterised, does allow full gameplay.
Since many people are talking about Realms and Switch, I’d like to mention again that this is happening in local worlds as well in my case. The player affected by this bug in my household never signed into XBox Live on his device and never switched devices either. The device that hosts the world has never been switched as well.
Adding another datapoint. This happened to one of my kids’ account.
Local Survival world (non-Realm), no cheats
Mine: iOS (host), signed into XBox Live
Kid 1: Windows 10, signed into XBox Live
Kid 2: iOS, Not signed into XBox Live, affected by this bug, spawned at world spawn with both XP and inventory reset.
Still an issue in 1.12.2 LAN. Affected ender chest, location, armour, inventory. When a second player opens tge world in single player mode they are given the first player's stuff. Also overwrote player 2 advancements.
Quote "(I had the same problem with signs in MCPE 0.6.1 but could type everywhere else with that version)"
+1 with my Galaxy Tab 2.
Have you tried the Gingerbread Keyboard? Ugly keyboard, but it works for MCPE 0.7.1. (for me anyway)
Double Confirmed! See my report at MCPE-2801
Although I have it working now, by using a different keyboard. The default Samsung Keyboard and TouchPal keyboards have this issue.
I'm currently using Gingerbread Keyboard off googleplay to at least play MCPE. (now to look for a better keyboard that is compatible.......)
To Sam Juin Taliex- Mojang aren't changing them all to 'resolved'. They are closing all the duplicates.
Agree that the game is rendered useless for Survival now..... 😞 Much the same when they released 0.6.0. An update shortly after fixed the main bugs.... We just need to chillax.....
I can confirm 1.16.X