iPhone 7 lagging when unlocking

Wondering if any iPhone 7 users have experienced this issue whereby the phone will lag and become very sluggish when unlocking the phone. This issue arrived when I updated to iOS 14 and I didn’t have this problem in iOS 13. After unlocking , the animations will turn off and opening apps, scrolling through your apps will be really really laggy. After about 10 second when the unlock icon at the top of the screen disappears, then everything run as usual. Please respond if anyone have faced this issue before.

iPhone 7, iOS 14

Posted on Nov 5, 2020 5:24 PM

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Posted on Apr 9, 2021 8:45 AM

Just adding my voice to the thread, had this infuriating issue on iPhone 7 since iOS 14 launched.


As someone earlier in the thread pointed out, it does seem (at least in my case) to be related to pushing the button to wake up the phone. This appears to not wake up the CPU correctly leading to a period of intense lag.


Enabling "Wake on Raise" and then raising the phone to wake it, before unlocking the phone via Touch ID works perfectly. It's important to note that pushing the button to wake still causes lag. You must raise the phone to wake it.


An awful workaround, but since Apple doesn't seem to care about the issue, it will have to do.

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Feb 23, 2021 8:23 PM in response to IvanTan55

What's so **** frustrating is my gf old iPhone 6s and my friend iPhone 6 works better than my newer iPhone 7 with this stupid stupid issue. I have been in Apple "ecosystem" for a long time but this kinda proves Apple is no longer a company they're used to be. IOS was a major bug-free OS but however with recent releases and sloppiness like this, Android is going take that place it seems.


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Feb 26, 2021 7:26 AM in response to IvanTan55

I have been experiencing this problem since ios13, but the problem has worsened after updating to ios14. It used to happen very rarely on ios13 and I thought if I upgrade to ios14, the issue would disappear....

My device has never experienced shut down because of low battery health and the unused storage is almost 45gbs, therefore these factors DO NOT cause the above issue.


Really unfortunate that Apple is ignoring this and literally bullying us into buying new iPhones.


Can anybody test and confirm if this problem is solved in ios14.5 betas or if the frequency of it occurring has been reduced?

Thanks!

Mar 1, 2021 1:50 AM in response to IvanTan55

Just one more confirmation to this annoying and shameless bug.

I have a 7 Plus 256Gb model, a lot of gigs are, battery level is 82%, current IOS version is 14.4

The bug started to be observable after I did upgrade to IOS 14 version.

I tried to reinstall IOS, doesn't help.

It's feels like using a cheap android phone, quite often I just want to break it at all.

Shame to you Apple!!!


By the way the bug is not observable on iPhone 7.


Mar 5, 2021 2:33 PM in response to drag_og

Lol so my previous post got deleted but to be honest, I feel like it’s fixed, but I’m not gonna celebrate to soon because I have been facing this issue for a long time but the new version of the software (I can’t say the name because then it’s gonna be removed again) feels so smooth. But I’m not to sure yet so I’ll just continue using it to make sure.

Mar 14, 2021 5:51 PM in response to IvanTan55

iPhone 7 is the worst iPhone ever. My friend has ZERO complains with his iPhone 6s. Even my father’s iPhone 6 runs smooth. Why the heًll did I spend more money and get this shْit?! First the issue was missing unlock animation on iOS 12 and 13, Now? Unlocking my phone? LAGGING. Scrolling over home pages? LAGGING. Enabling airplane mode for while and turn it off back? Status bar glitchs and keeps showing “plane” icon instead of signals indicator ! Trying to swipe up to open control center when you have many apps opened in the background? It won’t respond and you have to swipe up slowly to open CC. And there is more of bugs and issues, in fact, every single update introduces new BUG ! What is this shiًt I’ve put my self in!

Please Apple software engineers do your fucًking job and fix these issues.

Mar 15, 2021 2:19 AM in response to MoNaggar21

I just fix mine problem with lagging, its simple really 😁 I can't believe I didn't do it earlier. What you need to do is step 1: go to xiaomi store, step 2: buy xiaomi mi 10T pro, step 3: sell iphone, Apple watch, step 4: cancel all apple subscriptions. Problem solved! Now I have very fast phone, 144hz display and everything is so fluid and going smoothly. Great cameras and not to mentioning battery life of 9-10h screen on time and 11-12h standby minimum. Apple bye bye cos you disappointed me for the second time and now there is no returning back. Guys see yaaa and I hope they fix problem for you all or you just do what I have done and have great phone, great cameras and battery life.

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