iPhone Keyboard Lag after iOS 17 Update

I shouldn’t have to turn off anything I had enabled in iOS 16 to get the same user experience in iOS 17 on a brand new iPhone 15 Pro.

My wife just got an iPhone 14 pro and is experiencing the exact same thing. It’s 100% iOS 17 that needs to be fixed.

I’ve been having a lot more than lag issues with iPhone 13 max pro and iPhone 12’s keyboard. Typing has become consistently worse in regards to auto correct not correcting words or not accepting the correct spelling of a word, wrong keys being hit repeatedly, its not allowing me to delete a letter or words without hitting backspace 10-15 times, faulty cursor selection and placement,randomly started dropping the cursor places or to the bottom of the page while typing to edit text or like now while trying to scroll thru to edit anywhere I touch it all of a sudden wants to highlight words instead of placing the cursor wants jump to, at times it wont fit words properly onto the page with more than enough space for them to fit leaving huge spaces.

its not the memory or battery and resetting the device doesn’t do anything. I don’t believe its the devices themselves either due to it consistently becoming worse every update and the sheer number of complaint about the issues over a period of time. it seems the problem is with iOS and my screen has also been freezing on both devices with keyboard use beyond lag .

This iPhone 13 max pro is the last apple devices that I will ever purchase for myself or family again. It’s beyond frustrating to the point i’m tempted to smash the **** thing multiple times a day and switching back to an android. It’s pretty bad when you want to smash a phone due to constant frustration with it. There’s no excuse for Apple to have these issues with its iOS other than poor programing and increased lack of care in the quality.

Exact same problem. I have ENG and VN keyboard languages active. Almost every time I reply to a text the keyboard freezes and catches up after, and it happens on both my 13 pro and my work phone Xr which only has ENG keyboard.

Fix this... asap.. i'm gonna try google keyboard

I thought it might help others out in case they are facing the same problem. But you are right, it might temporary resolve the issues but it’s apparent that the lagging issue is still there. I’ve been told by Apple today to wait until the next release, sadly :(

It is also happening on both my iPhone and iPad. It would freeze every time i type fast and then appears a few moment later the zoomed letters cleared up when using keyboard. Occurs in all apps, including iMessage.

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.

Made an account just to post a comment on this thread.

I’ve been having this issue on iPhone 12 Pro even before the iOS 17 update.

I thought upgrading to iPhone 15 Pro would’ve gotten rid of the issue but somehow it got worse.

I’ve tried all the ways suggested but seem to have no major improvement.

How can the “best iPhone yet” in late 2023 still have this issue? Please get it fixed Apple. It’s stuttering and lagging like CRAZY as I’m typing this comment.

I have this exact problem with all apps the require any writing. You start to type and the words start to clutter. Sometimes I have to close the app because the keyboard freezes. This **** "better predictive" ruined the keyboard

This is incorrect. Many of the fixes in this forum have shown to be temporary just like the things they did there at the store, once you go home and start using it again the issue will come back.

Apple isn't "doing this" apple is not fixing it fast enough, its been several updates since the issue was reported. We are seeing it across different generations. It is an OS level issue with their keyboard and correction algorithm.

Its not a solution, at least not for me since I have the same issue with third party keyboards. Try to write at the same time you listening a whatsapp audio and you will see what I mean.

I encourage all of you having this problem to send the feedback to the apple support, otherwise we will be suffering this for a while

I get the same problem... maybe the people that test the phones these days have tiny little finger tips. I've had iPhones since the first and the keyboard was massively better back then.

that said though... the lag issue so many can't get rid of, went away on my iPad Pro 1st after switching off auto correct etc. then came back and went away again... the only problem app was YouTube.

It's now officially reached horrendous proportions. I am using an iPhone 13 Pro 128GB (36GB of spare storage) and now the Keyboard doesn't even appear anymore! In Messages/WhatsApp/X/YouTube/Google, when I press the box in order to type, nothing happens and the app I am using crashes! Restarting the phone temporarily fixes it but after anywhere from 30mins to 3 hours later the Keyboard ceases to work or appear and crashes the app I am trying to type in. A couple of times even a restart hasn't fixed this issue and I have had to restart multiple times in order to get the keyboard to (temporarily) start working again.

After 15 years, it might be time to dump Apple and go for an Android phone. How can problems with such a FUNDAMENTAL component of a phone not be fixed with an immediate patch release update. I think Apple just don't care anymore. This weekend I am dumping my iPhone for good.

I am experiencing exactly the same issue, with all apps: WhatsApp, iMessage, twitter/X, etc…

read the link but mine is iPhone 14 pro, with more than 30 giga free, and 100% battery health

Experiencing the same issue. Especially in iMessage I notice it the most.

iPhone 14 Pro with 17.0.2 installed.

Same issue, I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max with iOS 17.0.2, the issue is present in every app which support text input and it happens randomly