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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Posted on Sep 29, 2023 4:51 AM

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Posted on Dec 3, 2023 11:41 AM

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

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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.

Dec 8, 2023 5:48 AM in response to emc1957

This isn't true.

Please read the comments before posting wrong answers. This will confuse people that got this problem and stumble across this site.


As stated many times before resetting the dictionary does not solve the issue. You will loose all your saved words. Then for a limited time the issue won't occur, but soon after you will experience the same again. Tested by many users here just to loose their saved words.


Also restarting, disabling other language or disabling the spell checking doesn't solve the issue since you are disabling functionality instead of solving the bug.


It is a bug in iOS and not a wrong setting, it happens since iOS 17 with the implementation of the new predictive text function. Apple messed something up there.


To really get someone from apple fixing the problem you got to report it here: Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Probably Apple won't even monitor this page.

Oct 1, 2023 2:31 PM in response to IVVladimir

Hi IVVladimir,


Thanks for posting. As we understand it, you're running into some iPhone performance issues specific to the keyboard. We'd like to help out.


To clarify one point, when you say you cleared the keyboard cache, are you referring to the "Reset Keyboard Settings" function?


Also, so we can narrow this down, are you finding this happens in a specific app, or all apps? If you haven't yet, you could test a few different apps like Messages, Mail, Notes or Pages.


If all apps are affected, this link has good general steps that could help If your iPhone or iPad is running slow.


Cheers.

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.

iPhone Keyboard Lag after iOS 17 Update

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