Typing lag in Notes app on iOS 14

are you on low power mode when it happens? I have this issue a lot, and finally decided to look it up and find a fix, kept going in and out of a long note to test it and look at solutions, but then my phone turned off low power autmatically and it went away. I manually turn on low power mode a lot to conserve power. I'm not sure if it'll continue working fine, but thought I'd leave this here to see if it helps anyone.

Is Apple going to do anything to fix this? Or is it going to take a class-action suit to get Apple to again fess up to designing software that purposely slows down older phone models? Please fix this, Apple.

SO true! My perfectly working phone all of a sudden becomes out of memory or lags or acting strangely right about the time a new model comes out. I loved my 5S and never had issue until the 6 came out.

This has been going on a long time. With the amount of reports you thought it would of been fixed with the last update. Does any Apples support people even read these threads. SMDH who cares about 100 new emojis

I have had the same issue recently, on an iPad Pro. It has been more noticeable following the recent update. I have tried all the suggestions People have written on here. Resetting the keyboard gives temporary relief but the problem keeps coming back. By chance, I noticed the lag disappears if I close the side menu so the open note takes up the whole screen.

The custom dictionary in iOS/iPadOS 14 isn’t compatible with the one from previous OS’s, and resetting the keyboard dictionary might reduce or eliminate the keyboard lag problem. I was doubtful at first, but I went ahead and reset my dictionary, and INSTANTLY the lag problem disappeared!

To do this, go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Keyboard Dictionary.

I applied the fix of shutdown to reset keyboard dictionary but problem re-appeared. Is there a permanent fix? Also anyone know if it has to do with additional keyboard use. Possibly one grabbing your keystrokes?

From what I have observed, the keyboard lags happened when I was working on a very large Note or Messages.

I also have noticed that my other devices, in which my iCloud account was signed in, was not recognised or couldn’t be found.

I signed it from the other device (laptop) and checked again my iCloud account seeing to it that all my devices were found and synchronised.

After that my keyboard lagged was somehow resolved and never had any keyboard lag anymore. I didn’t do any reset of any kind as some suggested here.

Another thing I’ve noticed, you have to completely ensure that both devices are fully synchronise with your iCloud account. Am not quite sure what does the iCloud account got to do with this.

I hope this helps.

Btw, as of this writing, 3 of my other friends and family that had had the same symptoms were able to fix their problem with the above workaround.

This is complete bullshit. Fix this issue Apple. Absolutely unacceptable to have something like this happen at this point in iPhone development and iOS 14. What kind of Busch league crap is this?

The dictionary reset doesn’t fix it. Maybe the iOS 14.2.44.123.87.2233 update will.

I have a iPhone Xs Max (128MB) and I've figured out ... you just need to buy a new phone ... and everything is solved. So, this is Apple telling you that your phone is obsolete because we need to drive top-line revenue.

I believe my keyboard lag problem in Notes was caused by my Note being too long. I keep lists that, after a while, get very long. I upgraded the OS, rebooted the phone, deleted dictionary and non-native keyboards to no avail. Then I tried starting a new blank note and there was no lag. Went back to an old lengthy note and the lag came back. My verdict is that, in my case, I was using Notes too much like a word processor. Since Notes is constantly saving, it couldn’t keep up. Test yours by starting a new Note and see if you have lag or not.

My solution: keep notes shorter or use Pages word processor.

I found something worked for me! I copied my note that was responding very slow and pasted it into a new note and that fixed it!!! I did reset the keyboard first and that didn’t fix the original note. I’m not sure if you need to do that before copying and pasting into a new note or not.

Same problem here on a 2018 iPad Pro.

me too! my keyboard is extremely extremely laggy in imessage and i have an XR

I’m on an Xs max and it’s so slow it’s almost unusable and eating whole sentences