Render distance will not increase past 10 chunks

The render/view distance will not increase past 10 chunks in a realm. In single player/local world it's fine... but whenever I join a realm the render distance will not increase past 10 chunks. I see that there are a couple other posts about this issue from months ago, both of which are Unassigned.. which I'm guessing means no one is working on them so I figured I'd make a new report. Please fix this.