iPhone Keyboard Lag after iOS 17 Update

On top all you said, it has become so hard to try to insert a word between other words. It has become really annoying. I try to insert a word and it automatically selects the entire word before or after and I need to retype the word either before or after where I want to insert another word. It is really hard…

$2000+ phone and cant even use the keyboard, the single handed most important feature to give data input back to the phone to get stuff done. For a trillion dollar company it has android lagging keyboards, what a joke. Pull yourself together Apple! Expect better than this!

spending 2-3x more time to type and wait for the lag to catch up 🤦‍♂️

I'm on iOS 17.1.2 and the issue persists

I've already tried reseting the keyboard dictionary, removing my secondary keyboard and since that didn't work, I even re installed IOS

The only thing that fixes the issue, as other persons have pointed out, is disabling predictive text and autocorrection

For me, autocorrection and predictive text is indispensable, so I installed google keyboard. It looks awful, but the typing experience is so much better

It is sad that a third party keyboard does it better than the apple one

I'm having this issue on an iphone 14 pro max running IOS 17.1.2 and the issue has been present since the first iOS 17 update

I am experiencing the same problem and any tip posted by the specialists here is NOT working at all. The problem is still here after 3 updates.

Not much time so gotta make it short: this is unacceptable. Typing any form of message/mail etc. becomes a total farce and I expect a lot more of apple regarding problem solving.

i totally agree. This 'update' has made my keyboard unusable. Clearly someone at Apple is not doing their job. Please organise a fix asap. i have didabled all funtions of my keyboard to enable typing without words and letters freezing. I didnt pay so much money for an iPhone for this!

This is a problem that is not solved. Please push this to higher ups. My iphone is not useable due to this error since ios17 released.

I can report a stuttering keyboard also with a brand new iPhone 15. But I think it's a bit more complicated than that. I can also report that this is reproduceable on an iPhone 13 mini and iPhone 14 Pro.

• First, it depends on how fast you typing
• second if you use swipe-touch it's not stuttering (the reason is you are usually much slower with that)
• it seems to be a performance problem with the predictive text feature trying to keep up with a fast typer
• restarting / clear apps does not take any effect.
• It's a permanent bug

I prefer typing on single letters rather than swiping over the keyboard for generating words. If you doing this for years you are much faster than the swipe input variant (because of friction of your skin on glass). But when using swipe-input I can't recognize any lag.

So some Users won't experience this at all. Depending on speed of input and method of input-

before the predictive text feature this wasn't a problem except Apple's autocorrect is the worse I ever experienced. Now with iOS 17 it's better but it seems there is a performance problem Apple has to look into.

If you slow down in typing you will experience that the stuttering get's less. If you get up to speed again, the problem occurs. No matter which device. iPhone 15 Pro or an iPhone 15, there is actually no difference in this.

At least in my opinion this is something considered a bug. Since Apple implemented a feature that's lagging when used under speed, which is a quite common usecase for a software keyboard.

I have the same issue, to make it worse, every time I type in ENG, it autocorrect to VN, then when I type in VN, it sometimes auto correct to ENG. it drives me crazy! I had to disable VN keyboard so stop the autocorrect from doing that

Same problem here on iPhone 13 Pro Max since iOS 17 Update.

Currently on 17.0.3 and it’s still delayed and laggy. Especially when typing more than one sentence. Happens in every app (Notes, iMessage, WhatsApp, etc.). Using the German and English keyboard - both are delayed and laggy.

It‘s a really unpleasant experience since I need to type a lot on my phone. Probably switching to Google Pixel since it’s really limiting the workflow.

They are close to releasing iOS 17.2 already, with a keyboard which is ridiculously slow. No improvement so far, IPhone 13 pro which I don't like anymore because they ruined something that was always so good. 

If it’s someone’s job to read these complaints on the forum, then they don’t understand how they should prioritise fixes. We don’t pay huge amounts of money to scroll pages only.

I remember iOS 6. Are those developers still around, Apple?

I've been experiencing the same issue with my iPhone XS Max, fully updated. Recently upgraded to iPhone 15 Pro and surprisingly met with the same issues. I disabled all auto-correction and predictive text, basically everything other than my own fingers typing. It solved the issue. Obviously want auto-correct and predictive text back at some point, hoping to be fixed in next update.

They broke the operating system with the 17.1.2 update. Makes using the iPhone 15 pro. search function is near useless with no keyboard displaying. The suggestion to turn off other keyboards is absurd. It worked, and now it’s a piece of crap.

Just updated to the iOS 17.2.1.

It didn’t fix the problem with the keyboard lag. Even my Nexus 4 I had many years ago got the keyboard right to perfection.