'Freezing' is what I call which means the game doesn't respond to any user input (the game didn't crash— but its not responding).

This issue has already been happening to me lately ever since I purchased Minecraft for the Switch.

In my experience, it happened:

• Sometimes when the game is suspended in the Main Menu for a long time, and then joining a server/realm or opening a world;
• Sometimes when getting disconnected from the joined friend's world;
• Now, everytime I force close the game, my Switch itself freezes!

To be honest, I am not sure when it really happens. But when it does, I do not have a clue why it happened now– but not earlier. There's just a lot of 'unstable' things.

I usually have to restart my Switch, and then re-open the game to fix the issue.