Sorry for off topic,
I have bad news for iPhone users,what I found is Apple fault itself.Apple responsible for this.They slowing down all old devices for making the batteries last longer.They capped your cpu clocked which the main 'Minecraft' brain to operate.Google yourself because many users going to rage today.
If you having a problem,please write your device model so I can know your device too old or else.
When my device use 843/1000mb ram,the render sliding can go to 14 but when ram usage below than 800mb ram,the slider set to 6.The more interest me is I reinstall the game back,automatically get 14 render even have 80mb ram free.When open the second time,it back to default.
I check at Wikipedia about chunks render,I google and change game option.txt and modified the render code.And now fix but sometimes it don't work.
Intel CPU has better fab than ARM CPU. Second,due ARM CPU especially for low power devices (phone),they run at low frequency than pc CPU. Third,PC has 2-5x better speed of RAM.Forth, PC run at maintain speed.Example,you have pc that run at 3.5Ghz,the pc run at 3.5Ghz exactly unless phone,phone CPU run at various of frequency to keep phone at the best performance but stuck at battery performance.
Back to the game,I got pissed off my phone run well at 6 render distance but FPS stuck at 60 ,never get below than 60 FPS and something I realize new brand of Minecraft less consume my phone battery than before.
Ok,I hope the dev got fix this issue before the winter coming.
I guess the game developed with win10.Because phone cpu not greater than pc cpu,it locked the render distance.My second predictios,because phone cpu do not have heatsink,the game was optimized to lock the max render to avoid overheating and drop performance on some phone.My prediction.
I dont know,the game lock the render to 6 on some phone.Maybe due insufficient RAM,GPU limit or the phone totally bottleneck
I had format my device and seem the bug is fixed but still occur if my RAM full.
The bug occur when try to changing tge render in main menu but seem can adjust im game world to 14 chunk.Max I got 16 chunk but too lag.
Affect iOS and Android.
Still occur
Dude,hold and it works on me
I mean hit the walls at excessive velocity.
true,I put slime block on sticky piston
Its true,need log out xbox account first.Quite annoying.
Already 1 year and 7 months and seems like older device can't go more than 6 chunks
Mobile Phone 2019 spec
Minimum spec:
Quad-core 1.8GHz
3GB RAM
Mali T660 MP4
1GB free disk space
Recommend spec:
Octa-core 2.1GHz or higher
6GB RAM
Mali G73 MP4
5GB free disk space