Being offline freezes and crashes my game

When I am offline, sometimes my game will freeze, sometimes it will be for a couple seconds. But when I am in my offline world I freeze for a long time and don’t regain control of character, then crash, time and time again. Is it a requirement that I have to be online to play minecraft on my device, even though it can be used offline? Is the game punishing me for not having an internet connection? Edit: it still happens in the new aquatic update Part 2. Edit 2: my game gets “corrupted” sorta, ie I was mining pumpkins (say 7) and I froze and crashed, I come back in to see 3 things: Animals out of their pen, animals in the wrong pen (chicken in a cow pen, vice versa) and the pumpkins I mined? Gone. Also I spawn a few blocks away from my original frozen location. Edit 3: I think I found the source, it is caused by the Xbox live auto signin. When it tries to log in but i am offline, it breaks, because it freezes sometimes when it “finishes signing me in”.