iPhone lagging and slow after iOS 17 Update

I have tried factory resetting my iphone, installed all updates but the keyboard is super laggy and most of the time i need to retype.

super frustrating

Hi Guys,

After days with Apple support team none were able to solve. I figured with out myself. The issue is with siri suggestion in contacts. You need to turn it off. Apparently when you search for contacts if the siri option is on it gives its own suggestion too. This wasnt the case earlier so i guess its a bug which needs to be fixed. Hope this helps anyone facing same.

I have AppleCare only for accidental only defect parts. AppleCare, in my extensive experience, is working from basic overall troubleshooting scripts that include the data destructive factory reset and build back out, with no restore. My guess, being a computer support professional for 25 years, is that Apple keeps the true "known issues" to themselves, and only disclose the ones with a fix to AppleCare support people. Instead it's reset and rebuild. It's a shame that Apple gives the illusion that all your data is saved in the cloud, but all your apps data is most definitely not. I had to reset/rebuild, without a restore from backup, as per tier 2 Apple Support commands - and lost untold data in apps like Adobe Acrobat Reader where I stored most of my PDF files. All my music play lists were gone. Some of my photography editing app work had images reside in that app and they were not saved into the Apple photos storage until complete. So that work was lost. I have 28 apps using Face ID to unlock and all of those had to be set back up again. It literally takes me weeks to get my phone built back to usable as it is used in my work. And forget about any settings you tweaked -accessibility - font size - keyboards - etc. that all have to be reconfigured, as of you try to remember what changes you made over time. IOS17 is proving to be quite buggy. And with Apple declining iOS 17 for all phones from the X series and back, it is telling that Apple knew this was coming. Hopefully 17.2, due any day now in December, will be much more than the additional features and contain fixes and hardening of the foundational accepts of the operating system. But I'm not holding my breath, as I have had issues on my $1200 iPhone 13 Pro Max 256GB that have existed with iOS 15... and iOS 16... and now a whole slew of the new lagginess and other issues mentioned in this discussion. I hope Apple hears our cries for stability, back to basics "it just works", allows us to turn off the photo taking AI - that results in bad photos, and stops the practice of recommending complete, data destructive factory reset and rebuilds (without a restore) as a trouble shooting step, when they don't have solutions. It's hurts all of us. And not all of us are technical support people. I hear the frustration of my nontechnical friends and relatives as they ask why Apple did this to them. All of this is meant in a positive light - let's hope Apple listens.

I upgraded from iOS 16 to 17 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max and noticed performance issues. The recent update to 17.2 has worsened the lag and significantly increased battery drain compared to iOS 16. I'm disappointed and hope they address and resolve these issues soon, or provide compensation for affected users.

After the iOS 17 download, my phone is a total slug, like everone else's. Time for a new phone, but it ain't gonna be an Apple. All these engineers who need a job, piling up more and more features, more junk, just so they have work. More is better. All these people pretending like they didn't just totally screw up. What a mess. Who's in charge? I'll be lucky if I can even send this. I need a completely different platform that is efficient. Apple has been on its way out for a while, but this is WAY OUTSIDE!

13 mini laggy and apps go Black screen. I have to restart regularly. This is all a new situation that was not present prior to this new IOS. Please fix this. Or give a solution beyond hard restart.

Same issue, it's absolutely horrible and i don't believe for a second that it's legitimate, i think they're deliberately lagging the 13 mini to force you to upgrade to a 14 or 15, it's sickening and i'm about done with Apple over stuff like this.

Android users can keep using their smartphones for 5, 6 or even 7 years up to date without a problem, i buy a brand new iPhone and 2 years later it already doesn't work.

Apple could fix this overnight by simply allowing you to downgrade back to an older version. Updates that brick devices are amateur level budgetphone QA, not what i expect from a company that sells premium devices, especially when you don't give us an option to downgrade again.

I already tried resetting it twice through iTunes, no results, it just keeps lagging, opening Safari takes a full minute, sometimes it just freezes when trying to open a page... it's crazy

iOS 17 is an embarrassment and don’t even get me started on the state of Siri- it’s like Apple want to annoy customers away to android. But just watch- Apple will release ‘SiriPro” and charge a subscription fee- you can still have the old Siri for free but they’ve purposely made it worse to tempt customers to pay for a better version once released…

Apple have lost sight of customers and staff in the pursuit of bigger and bigger profit margins. Their business tactics are inhumane and cause suffering to thousands of people in China and the Congo. They delay the roll-out of innovation for years so they can keep selling the same old tech year after year without paying innovation costs. Both their customers and staff loose out so they can keep taking more money out of the economy and putting it in their own hands. I’ve been an Apple customer since the age of 17 (I’m now 37) and have watched the company become more and more greedy and products become less and less reliable. Sneaky stuff like built in obsolescence and taking GB away from devices and forcing subscription based cloud services on customers.

A gross company that I’m ashamed to have been a loyal customer to for so long.

Hello Apple_and_Stones,  

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities.  

Start with these troubleshooting steps if your iPhone is not working as quickly as you would expect: If your iPhone or iPad is running slow - Apple Support

There have been several incremental iOS 17 updates released. Please be sure to install the latest available updates before restarting your device again. It can also be helpful to install App Store updates if you have not already.

• How to manually update apps on your Apple device.
• Update your iPhone or iPad.
• Restart your iPhone.

Please reply back or contact Apple Support directly if the issue continues: Apple Support.

All the best!

I'm seriously thinking of switching to Samsung to have Android as the operating system

It's a BS Apple! Iphone 13 mini - the same issue. On latest ios16 this phone was perfect in every way. Small, easy to use with one hand, perfectly smooth and fast. I strongly regret upgrading to ios17. If future updates won't solve the problem I'm going to Samsung.

And yes - I did completly reset the phone, installed everything again, even not used a backup - completly fresh install - didn't solve anything.

This is how Apple gets you to upgrade to the next model of iPhone. They have already been sued for doing this in the past. Also this is my 2nd time posting this comment as Apple removed my comment the first time!

17.3 new bugs. Still a mess. Fix a few things, break more things. Tried to take a picture from the Lock Screen, and the camera app opens to a black screen. App opened, but I guess didn't wake up the camera module. I had to hit the power off (not reboot) and wake again and pre the camera icon on the Lock Screen. Worked the second time, but missed the orange birds I was trying to take a picture of.

hey there

this seems very un-apple like. ios 16 used to be very smooth on my iphone 13. i thought ios 17 would mature in a month or two and start feeling smoother but instead i see very frequent app crashes with linkedin. i have never been able to play call of duty mobile like i used to before upgrading to ios 17. it's funny that you switch from android expecting consistently high performance over time and then see the phone crash on linked.

well, i hope they fix these issues soon.

Apple is SO bad, i just got this iphone 13 and updated it, its so slow and bad, its lagging even if im not in an app, even my iphone 7 was running way better on the older updates, they need to make a new update, even my keyboard is lagging when im typing