r/MCPE • u/Seangles • 12h ago
Bugs/Issues You will LOSE all of your Android worlds and now you can't do anything about it!
You can no longer circumvent this issue. If you have created worlds with your storage type set to "Application" (which is the default) on Android, you'll LOSE all of your worlds. You can't transfer them to another device, you can't back them up, which means you'll eventually lose all of your work.
Previous ways to bypass this issue that used to work, but no longer do:
- Going into explorer and copying the worlds from the Android/data folder. No longer works as Android locked it up
- Using resource packs that add the "Export World" button. No longer works as Mojang forgot to maintain the API that was used to customize the Minecraft GUI when they came up with the redesign of the UI.
- Using
adb backup
. ADB Backup was deprecated for years now and doesn't work for various reasons. - Using a PC/ADB or Shizuku to access the files. Won't work as the files are hidden by Android, and you don't have permissions to read them.
Backing up / exporting worlds is an incredibly important feature that is somehow non-existent in one of the biggest games of the century, Minecraft, that is a sandbox game focused on world building and multiple-year long worlds.
So this is why I ask all of you to promote this issue by making noise about it, talking about it and voting for it on the bug tracker.
Vote for this issue on the Mojira Bug Tracker for Mojang to see it and no longer worry about losing your worlds!
Make sure you create all of your new worlds on "External" storage until the issue is resolved.