I recently updated Minecraft on my iPhone 6 Plus to version 1.2.0 via the App Store, but I quickly noticed that the render distance was vastly lower than it previously was. Before the update I could set my render distance to as high as 12 or 16, if I wanted to. However now I can't go any higher than 6 chunks. My device has 1GB of RAM, so that should be enough memory to run the game at a higher render distance than 6 chunks? As it worked just fine in the version prior I hoped that it would work just as well in the new version as well, but right now that doesn't seem to be the case.

Any help would be much appreciated.