iPhone so slow and laggy after the update of IOS 14.5.1

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Hi,

What did it for me, with an instant return to normal operation, was plugging it to the MBA.

As soon as the blue bar at the top appeared, my 7+ became snappy again.

In fact I wanted to restore it to 14.5, which proved unnecessary after all.

I’m experiencing the exact same issues with an iPhone 7 Plus ever since updating to 14.5.1, powering my phone down for the night, and then turning it back on in the morning. As with other users reporting here, it worked flawlessly before the update and is now rendered virtually unusable. No changes to settings, apps installed, or any other aspect of its configuration whatsoever have been made, and half its 256 GB storage is currently free. I repeat that it had worked *perfectly* before the update, ever since the day it was first purchased and used. The issue does seem to resolve temporarily when connected to a charging cable; however, the issue returns every time the phone is powered down and turned back on if not plugged into a power source. Unfortunately, a power source isn't always available should this problem persist. Needs a permanent solution ASAP.

In my case, it does works normally after disconnecting the charger. As I said, I use my phone while it's still plugged in for a few minutes before I unplug it

14.6 seems to be what is causing my problem. all 3 Apple devices are painfully slow. Speed test prior near 200 Mbps. After: less than 100...

Hey ruffyoung,

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Why are you restarting the iPhone?

Do you have multiple email accounts syncing to the iPhone?

Does this happen when the iPhone is fully charged?

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Hi I updated my iPhone to 14.5.1 last night and I’m having the same problems as you described. Although suggestions to help from others are well meaning, if your phone worked fine before you updated (as mine did as well with 14.5) surely the problem is within iOS 14.5.1 and will not be resolved until a new release? I have an older iPhone - 7, so unsure if that’s the problem??

Exactly the same issues with updating my iPhone 7 to 14.5.1. Slow phone and slow internet despite 300M fibre. Another brilliant fix from Apple 👎🏻

Cant wait for the phone call from my wife soon as I updated her phone too last night. Please rush out another fix to your fix please Apple.

Hello. I too am having wi-fi issues, except instead of it running slowly, it keeps disconnecting me for no apparent reason. Also am having issues with connectivity in that when my phone restarts, it will take twice as long to connect to internet instead of the usual immediate connection (same issue applies when not restarting phone but resetting router as i am working remotely from home and this is impacting my ability to take calls for my job).

Same issue applies to apps as well...some apps i had no issue with opening in past ios updates, now i can't even open some of them as well.

Some other issues for me include:

• issues with sending text messages (message sent failure, please try again); also issues receiving text messages as well (they come in sporadically and sometimes multiples at once.
• issues with calls coming in but phone isn't ringing (voice messages will show up hours later - also an issue with a previous update last fall which was successfully resolved until this ios 14.5 (or 14.5.1 update).
• audio quality issues while making phone calls. some people cannot even hear me while i am on call or connection breaks up mid-call, or calls failed when trying to dial numbers.

any one else having additional issues besides these as well?

I have had the same problem. I watched my phone drop 17% in less than 45 seconds. I can’t keep a connection and it’s throwing out passwords and usernames. I had just got the account to comment earlier when I was fed up that it took 2.5 minutes for Google to pull up. Just now as soon I hit reply the whole phone shut down and did a hard reboot. Now that have had to creat a new account to sign into this….. This Update Sucks and has ruined my phone. To be honest it never got a good signal but just figured it was because Verizon is so dishonest about their coverage in North Alabama. Now? Maybe it’s just the phone because this is my first IPhone but I never saw these issues with my old phone. Are updates constantly going wrong commonplace?