Resuming game sends me free falling at spawn point and dying.

I am playing game in a chunk that is kinda far from my spawn point, but occasionally I will open the app and start the game, and it will open with me in the sky above my spawn point. I free fall to the grown and die, losing all my inventory (which I can get back if I go all the way back to my spawn point.) I respawn at my chunk far from my spawn point with no experience and no inventory.