iPhone keyboard lag iOS 14

I had the same issue. First I tried resetting the keyboard dictionary as some have mentioned. It didn't work for me.

However I tried something else I found on Google. I disabled the Facetime and disabled iMessage. Restarted my Phone. Then re-enabled Facetime and iMessage and it seems to have stopped being laggy. So far so good.

Someone previously mentioned disabling FaceTime and iMessage then restarting your phone. When restarted enable the apps and you should no longer have a lagging keyboard. It worked for me so is worth a try.

Additionally:

The English (UK) seems not to have lag at all when I delete all other languages from the General / Keyboards / Keyboards menu.

solution: use only one language in General/Keyboards/Keyboards, in my case it works perfectly by only having English (UK) enabled. No lag afterwards anymore. I use an add-on keyboard for a secondary language.

Even when having two additional keyboard add-ons enabled, the English (UK) keyboard seems to work flawlessly without any lags-spikes. so it has to with the internal extra keyboards available in iOS 14.3

When I install Dutch (Belgium) additionally:

• the delay with English (UK) is between 1-3 seconds, so mostly ignorable.
• the delay with Dutch (Belgium) is between 4-10 seconds, so slightly irritating.

When I install Dutch (Netherlands) on top of the 2 languages:

• the delay with English (UK) is between 1-3 seconds, so mostly ignorable.
• the delay with Dutch (Belgium) and Dutch (Netherlands) is between 6-15seconds, so highly irritating.

As soon a second keyboard is installed, the lagspikes are noticeably high. I got a video recorded if any of the developers like to see the effect/lag on the keyboards.

Resetting the keyboard dictionary does not offer any solution for the extra keyboards installed and the 2 add-ons GBoard and Numerical do not have any lag at all.

I’ve had this keyboard lag in Messages on my Xs Max ever since updating to iOS 14. iOS 14.1 and iOS 14.2 also didn’t fix this issue. After reading several suggestions on this thread, here’s what I did and so far it has fixed it for me.

What I did:

1. Reset keyboard dictionary
2. Turned iMessage off and back on again
3. Hard reset

It may be the placebo effect lol but I haven’t experienced it again so far. I’ll update here if it ever does happen again.

I think I found the issue. Under “Settings > General > Dictionary” it appears 3 different dictionaries where checked. Two English and One Spanish-English. I unchecked all but the first one, reset my dictionary for good measure as others have stated and the lag is gone.

Same here! Just signed up community account to complain this! It really annoying and distrupe my productivity when working on my phone. Also really bad there is no way I can switch back to iOS13! How come Apple will launch a big version upgrades with such bad UX issues? Really cannot image how Apple differently than in the past.

Yes same here along with screenshot lag every now and then as well. 14.0.1 is out now but it makes no mention of fixing this keyboard lag so I’m gonna try it and see what happens but I’m not getting my hopes up. Absolutely ridiculous for a $1200 phone to feel like a phone from 2012

Lag. Slow. It’s won’t type in real-time due to this issue. Compete garbage they screwed up the keyboard - the one thing that you need to function properly on a smartphone. This sort of nonsense has me re-thinking iOS devices.

It's not slight lag for me... Ever since i updated to iOS14 beta, it has been sooo lagging. I was hoping the official version would fix it... but it has been such a disappointment. I had to literately switch to Mac to use iMessage so i am not so frustrated typing on my iPhone 11... It is bad typing in English, much worse typing Chinese.

The worst thing is it is so not consistent. Sometimes it is fine, but sometimes it is just so lagging.

I figured the more people complaining, Apple will expedite a fix. This lag is terrible, and should have been vetted prior to release. Stop rushing new IOS versions without properly testing them! #FIXTHELAG

I am having the same issue (iOS 14.0.1, iPhone X, 256 GB). The keyboard lags, especially when switching from one app to iMessage. I’ve done a reset, and it seems to fix it temporarily, but then the lag comes back.

This is exceptionally frustrating, especially given the fact that the keyboard is such an integral part of the iPhone.

This is a communication tool, and the primary means of communication is glitchy. This needs attention, ASAP.

I appear to have found a fix. I performed a Forced Restart of my phone followed by resetting my keyboard dictionary. I lost all the custom words I've added to my phone dictionary, but I no longer have the lag. I've been using it for a few hours since performing this workaround and so far it's been very responsive.

Give it a day. It’ll come back. Worked for me at first too. Although weird is that it didn’t delete all my saved dictionary words I put in there. But I reset it like three times and the lag went away but came back today.

Same on AppleTV. Had to remove YouTube and reinstall just to get it to scroll. I’m not updating to 14.0.1 who knows what that will go wrong. Agree that we pay hundreds of dollars for the AppleTV and thousand for phones. Sad part I was showing off the AppleTV to a firetv user and they giggled and sad you can tell it’s an Apple product. Please fix.

#FIXTHELAG

I have iPhone 11 and it’s super annoying! To the extend normally I like to just pick up my phone text and put down but this lag is really annoying 😡 please Apple fix this! For a £850 this is terrible makes me think my old Nokia 3310 would beat the text in a race 😂