A Workaround for Minecraft’s Broken MFi Controller Support
If you’re a Minecraft player with an MFi controller, chances are you’ve run into an irritating bug: the game doesn’t let you move and look at the same time. As long as you’re activating the left analog stick, the game ignores inputs from the right analog stick.
We’ve reported this bug to the developers several times, but despite multiple updates to the app, the problem persists.
The good news: there is a workaround that makes the game playable. Turns out the problem is strictly limited to analog stick inputs – all you have to do to work around it is map movement to the d-pad instead.
You can add movement bindings for the d-pad in the Minecraft PE settings. If you do this, then as long as you use the d-pad to walk, you can use the right analog stick to look around while you move.
This isn’t necessarily the controller support we were hoping Minecraft would have, but hey, it’s better than nothing. Fingers crossed Mojang will someday issue a real fix for this bug.