iPhone Keyboard Lag after iOS 17 Update

Hi!


After the iOS 17 update the keyboard typing experience is very unpleasant. I noticed the autocorrect feature is improved and available in many languages, but the keyboard has a major lag. After a sentence or two, the keys are not popping up, the prediction freezes and the text doesn't show up, even though I'm still typing. Few seconds later all the words I've been typing started to appear very fast and catch up again with my writing. I have already cleared the keyboard cache and restart the phone several times. iOS is up to date (17.0.2).


This is only one thing that's worst, there are many other aspect about the UI, but the keyboard one is the most upsetting.


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iPhone 13 mini

Posted on Sep 29, 2023 4:51 AM

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Oct 23, 2023 10:36 PM in response to IVVladimir

I just upgraded from iPhone 11 to iPhone 15 pro max, my phone had the keyboard lag issue and after transferring to new phone the lag was gone for the first few hours. Once it came back I went to go look for a solution (not sure why I haven’t before now) and thanks to this forum I have found my solution at least, I went to keyboard settings and deleted all keyboards but the default even removed the emoji keyboard and then I added it back and that seems to have fixed my typing lag issues for now at least.

Oct 26, 2023 3:25 AM in response to IVVladimir

Same here. 17.0.3. iPhone 12 Max Pro.

I've reseted the keyboard settings, removed all the languages, kept only my native one, disabled predictive and that setting to swipe to write, basically i'm using a keyboard from 2002. Still there are moments when it's laggy.

I just gave up, I'm on a Gboard right now, working flawless, even tho, this keyboard hasn't seen any update in more than a year on App Store.

It's unbelievable for me that Gboard and SwiftKey are working perfectly on iOS, with tons of features, and the internal keyboard it's just rubbish. If I was a manager on the keyboard dept on Apple, I would have just deleted the whole project and start from scratch. It's all bad.

Oct 26, 2023 6:58 AM in response to dipimar

I’ve gone through the b of 17.1 and it was there. Ran for a few days and then upgrade to 17.1GA and the lag disappeared at some point.


I did reset my keyboard dictionary and tried without dictation enabled but at some point in the last few days the problem was gone.


side note my iCloud account has enhanced security enabled with TFA and hardware keys.


but if were to make a suggestion, let it run a bit and see if your problem subsides.

iPhone Keyboard Lag after iOS 17 Update

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