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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Jan 5, 2021 11:24 AM in response to IvanTan55

Same here, when I unlock my phone I wait to "LOCK icon" next to clock in top of the screen disappears, and then i use the phone normally. But if I use phone before that icon disappears the phone lagging. Somethimes when unlocking the phone backlight is so lagging when it's dimming and everything is so lagging too, so badly maybe 5-10 seconds. This lagg starts after updating to ios 14 and its still present. Before ios 14 never nad a problem. Its iPhone 7 128gb with 95gb free, battery is original and new installed year ago 93% health and with battery healt and screen on time is fine, just that lagging is annoying.

Feb 4, 2021 7:12 AM in response to Gimi33

When I turn reduce motion, its lagging even when phone is unlocked and when I'm using it, when I type and in half of message just freeze for 2 sec and when unfreeze phone type everything I typed when phone was frozen. When I turn reduce motion off phone is usable and just freezes and lag when unlock. And in use it's really rare to freeze or lag if reduce motion is off.

Feb 25, 2021 5:13 PM in response to IvanTan55

If you do not go into the details of that setting and how to install it, then I made a twice of conclusions and tests:


1. When unlocking, the SpringBoard system process is loaded up to 70%-80%, which is why the iPhone starts to trottling, or rather its CPU.

2. Perhaps the problem arises due to the fact that the iPhone goes into a “deep sleep” when locked and from this problem

3. The problem was really solved by the LastLook setup installation, but today once a day I had a bug with the unlock animation and everything became normal



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