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Our latest Preview release brings several updates to mobile controls which we're excited to share with you. These range from improvements to swimming all the way to control scheme onboarding.  
 
Below are some questions based on the updates in this Preview which we would love to hear your feedback on, so once you've played and read through the questions, let us know what you think in the comments! 
 
Touch Controls 

  • How do the touch controls feel overall, and do you see any critical issues with them?  

Block Breaking 

  • Do you feel like block-breaking controls slow you down in creative mode? 
  • Compared to the prior Creative block-breaking mobile implementation currently in the retail version, are accidental block adds or breaks more or less common on the new touch controls? 

Stack Splitting 

  • Does stack splitting feel intuitive?  

Mobile Controls Onboarding Video 

  • Does the video help you better understand the differences between the control schemes?  

Drag and Drop 

  • Does the drag-and-drop feature feel intuitive?  
  • Do you feel anything is missing with the drag and drop system, or does the feature improve your inventory management experience?  

Swimming 

  • Is jumping out of water easier now?  
  • Is it harder to drown underwater now?  
  • Does the new swim logic make swimming more enjoyable overall?  

If you have any additional feedback you have doesn't fit the questions we’ve asked, feel free to create new feedback posts in this dedicated category!  

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    I know this is an old post, but jumping out of water (and any kind of moving) has been made nearly impossible in pocket edition since the latest d-pad update. And yes, the creative block braking thing DEFINATELY slows me down, although just as an FYI for anyone who finds it annoying too there is a way to change it in settings!

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    The new touch controls are very difficult to use, given that I personally set my controls to a large size and close down to the bottom of the screen as possible.

    To add to that, the toggle with flying is strange in the sense that you double-tap jump and now double-tap the down control to stop flying. There are some things I do like, which is honestly the way it looks, though that is honestly the only thing I personally like from this.

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    As of 1.20.71, the controls are very spaced out, with no smooth transition from forward to forward-right or forward-left. Therefore if I want to strafe, I have to stop moving. Completely unplayable and the worst feature in the 10 years I’ve played this game. PvP in particular as that’s what I like, but I’m sure it ruins everything.

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    Unless you plan on losing many million mobile players, this needs to be fixed ASAP. (Regarding my last post)

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    Would love the original dpad controls to at least be an option in the settings menu as its pretty annoying to deal with the sudden change of the dpad controls with no option to change it back to the original.

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    New D-pad touch controls are terrible. Change this back now!

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    After the last update the game is lagging a bit more than usual... Also, split screen controls are messed up! Please bring an option to put old controls cause i cant even play properly, not only me facing this issue, since you cant really put them where you like, it was okay until you guya touched the controls! Please fix it!!

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    The running speed has decreased to a jog in Bedrock 1.20.72 mcpe

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    i know this is an old post, but it’s genuinely driving me CRAZY. i actually hate the new 1.20.72 dpad controls. please change it back or give us two options between the different pads. i’ve seen so many other people agree and so many people stopped playing because of it. i genuinely believe mojang is going to loose so many mobile players because of this update, and ill be one of them because Minecraft is genuinely frustrating and unbearable to play. i love Minecraft but this new update is genuinely affecting me, i can’t enjoy it now.

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    Please bring the old controls back, the new moving ones are super uncomfortable

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    Posting BE1.20.72
    Touch controls - overall feels bad, but I'm hopeful these changes will be a ground work for future increases in functionality. It took me days to figure out how to stop flying in creative. My error rate has gone up alot, its still new so I'll adjust to some degree, but I feel like i'm missing the buttons in different ways or almost placing blocks through the d-pad. Also feel a lot less smooth. Like, sometimes it just stops taking input. There might have been a similar thing before and these freezes are shorter, but more frequent. Not too sure what the cause is; multitouch, diagonals maybe, but its most impactful in combat and parkour. Suddenly stopping while strafing around zombies or losing momentum in a big jump.

    Block breaking - yes new controls slow me down a little. There less of both, mostly "do nothing errors". acceptable but makes me feel less powerful.

    Stack splitting - yes

    Onboarding video - yes

    Swimming - I haven't noticed a difference with jumping out of water, but I wasn't bother before so, positive vibes.
    Drowning has NOT gotten harder. I feel the slightest bit slower swimming upwards and I still get stuck to the floor when I enter sprint swimming while standing on the bottom.

     

    thank you

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    Gostaria que Minecraft voltasse os controles antigos os novos controles estão muito ruim no meio da tela gostaria que eles voltassem a ser como eram antes porque a jogabilidade ficaria melhor com os controles antigos controles novos deixaram a jogabilidade muito ruim e voltar seus controles antigos ficaria melhor no meio da tela atrapalha PVP e até a construir agora se voltar seus antigos ia ser como era antes melhor.

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    Please give mobile users the d-pad option back. It is extremely hard to play with the new one. Mobile users hold their phone a certain way and for me at least the new d pad is wont even allow me to run effectively. It does not feel comfortable and ruins the game. So PLEASE I beg of you to consider this, it really means a lot to mobile users. It’s not like we can keep the same controller because we aren’t playing on Xbox. We haven’t grown up playing on an Xbox controller, we have grown up playing on the old d-pad. Please take action.

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    Me personally, I dislike every single new touch control. I miss the old single touch control that was big and easy to reach and control with bigger hands, the old boat mechanics and everything else. Sure I love how you can customize your touch controls but it’s so limited it actually makes it worse.

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    You ruined the game with these new controls,I've played for a decade built amazing muscle memory and you just ruined it, no one even wanted this you just ruined everything that us mcpe players know. Fix this

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    很抱歉，我是一个非英语母语国家玩家，所以请大家使用翻译。自力更新到1.20.73后，控制难度明显变大，我所使用的设备是iPad Pro第三代（11inch），最新版本我使用触摸屏时，我的手指极其容易点到空白处，导致我的操作（always）被打断。我前天更新的版本，3天内我一直在调整大小，以实现精确的控制，但结果证明，我根本做不到。
    我希望官方增加操作的多重版本版本，让玩家自己去选择：到底是使用新版本的操作，还是像过去过个版本的操作方式。
    最后再表达一下我的情感：我是中国玩家，某公司代理的Minecraft在中国大陆是什么情况所有玩家都清楚。这就是为什么我花美元也要买Minecraft国际版的原因。我不希望国际版我的世界也开始变得不那么好。请珍惜每一个艰难绕过重重阻碍，坚定支持国际版的中国玩家

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    I've been playing playing minecraft bedrock edition for 5 years and since the 20.7 update I haven't been able to play at all. I tried to change the controls but It wouldn't let me. Can we just have both controls designs? The new controls also take up most of the screen so it's very hard to move or interact. Can we please get this change?

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    The new controls make it a lot harder for me. Swimming is also even harder now too.

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    I keep changing to the 1st hotbar slot when trying to backwards. I know I can change it around but then the controls are harder to press directly. Can we please go back to the old controls??

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    I feel like everything is great BESIDES the distance between the buttons and the placement of all the buttons! I just can’t reach many of them, it’s too centred in the screen (too far for me to comfortably reach) and the jump button is SO ANNOYING
    I SWEAR
    IT MADE ME DROWN
    I JUST CAN’T CONTROL IT AS WELL! Before, I can just hold the jump button, and move forwards like a normal person. Now, I have to switch buttons (but more commonly, MISS, because of the SPACE btwetween them) and DROWN
    LITERALLY
    I’VE LITERALLY FALLEN WHO KNOWS HOW MANY HUNDRED BLOCKS
    AFTER BUILIDING SOMETHING IN THE SKY IN CREATIVE MODE
    BECAUSE TO TRANSITION TO ELYTRAS I HAVE TO CLICK JUMP BUT THE FLYING BUTTONS ARE SO ANNYOYING
    JUST BRING BACK THE OLD ONES
    PLEASE

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    Jumping out of the water is hard because when leaving the water, the up arrow move towards the top of the screen a little and when I go back down, it swaps again. It would be helpful if it stayed in the same place so I don’t have to keep alternating.

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    I've been playing Minecraft for a very very long time, especially mobile, and have religiously played creative on it whenever I had any free time but these new touch controls have been awful for me since having to redownload the game, post 1.20 updates. For one the new D-pad and tap to interact buttons feel very off to me. I attribute a lot of it to having built up such a strong muscle memory to the old controls but these new ones, no matter the adjustments I make, always feels off and difficult to get used to. The old control scheme felt intuitive where this one just feels a little extra in being overly complicated and unnecessary. The fact that you have no option to even go back to the original control scheme is what hurts me the most. Additionally the new creative-block breaking slows the game down so much for me, I felt before there may have been times when you would accidentally break blocks but it was easy to get used to not breaking and avoid mistakes. This new breaking system even with delayed block breaking off, makes the game feel so slow in creative overall and when building especially. It's brought such a terrible feeling to play that I don't even bother with mobile anymore because of how bad the replaced d-pad control scheme feels. So many other little things too but the ones I mentioned before is what really makes the game feel unplayable to me. 

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    Please make an option to use the old mobile controls

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    Mojang, be so kind and change the touch controls to the old ones because these new controls are absolutely unbearable and unpractical. Every time I double tap the jump button to fly, I always accidentally place a block because there is a huge gap between the up and down button

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    Please add a new option to allow players to use the classic controls, my son no longer wants to play minecraft because of the changes.

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    I enjoy almost everything about the update but THE NEW CONTROLS ARE SUPER GLITCHY AND MAKE SWIMMING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE ITS NOT INTUITIVE AT ALL please give an option to use old controls

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    I want the old one back

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    this new control method is really complicated :/

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    This has been an extremely painful time for mobile users. All these new iterations of the mobile controls do not fee right at all. They were already perfect before. Just please add an option to use the old controls!!

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    The drag-and-drop is very cool, but you have to get the timing right.
    Press and hold for too short, and it won't work.
    Hold for too long, and it also won't work.
    Please fix :)