iPhone keyboard lagging after iOS 18 Update

FYI for me it’s auto correct. When it’s disabled in settings, along with predictive, the lag is gone. So clearly Apple screwed up auto correct and predictive as usual and now typing is a nightmare on these phones. Time to switch back to Android.

yep same issue here. My 15 pro max lags, my 14 pro max lags, and my brand new opened today 16 pro max lags. It’s ios18. It’s garbage. Apple is so sloppy with coding on new updates. Maybe by 18.5 this will be fixed in 5 months 🙄 however mine does this with only English sooooo

Reset keyboard dictionary in Settings, General, Reset, Reset Keyboard worked for me.

One of the reasons I have upgraded to 16 Pro Max was because my 13 Pro Max became slow (specially the keyboard) after IOS 17 upgrade. But surprise! Still laggy keyboard on a 1.5k€ brand new phone.

IOS 16 was perfect keyboard-wise, I am glad I left my iPad Pro to that version.

Anyway, to me none of the suggested tips works. Furthermore, with every phone upgrade, I never restore the backup from the previous phone. Thus there is nothing to reset anyway.

DONT follow this advice. It doesn’t fix anything and it resets years worth of your learned dictionary and it makes typing such a hassle again. Don’t bother doing this.

The issue persists even with iOS 18.1.1. I’ve just written a post in the community about it, as I’m becoming increasingly frustrated. None of the updates so far have resolved the problem.

Here’s my post: Keyboard Lag on iPhone (iOS 17/18) - Apple Community

Perhaps you could help bring more attention to this by sharing it widely with friends and acquaintances who might also spread the word.

It’s genuinely frustrating to be left alone with such issues on devices as expensive as these. One would expect the basics to work flawlessly and for fixes to be released promptly.

I, along with many others, am not the only one experiencing this. This problem affects a significant number of people, all reporting the same issue. I truly hope for widespread reach so that Apple employees or those with closer connections can finally address this and provide us with a solution!

I have the issue on iPhone 11, I’m kinda happy you owners of 14 and 15 have the problem too, I thought this is the end of it

Issue still presents in 18.1

i was able to finally replicate this. it has to do with some emojis in predictive i think, which is odd because even with predictive off it does it. but for example i typed bee, and hit space, typing as fast as i always do. there is a clear distinct lag when you hit space and that's what's making typing choppy. it has to be something with the emojis. i've reset keyboard dictionary, i've turned predictive on and off, and i was able to replicate this on both my 15 pro max and 16 pro max! just type bee and keep typing fast anything after that, and you might notice the lag. its not every emoji though which is odd!!!! but bee was one of them lol btw i'm on 18.0.1 and it still does it. "phones" just did it as well, as it was populating all the phone emojis. but then i turned predictive off, did both, and it still lagged. so confusing, but i think it has to do with that.

**EDIT*

i just deleted the emoji keyboard and the word bee still triggers the lag. so i don't know what's going on.

It stared for me when I had my iPhone 11 Pro on iOS 17. I thought that it was something wrong with the phone but then I upgraded to 15 pro max and guess what it still happens. They released an update to patch that specifically and it did absolutely nothing.

I'm now on iOS 18.0.1 and guess again- the lag is still here. It only occurs if you have bilingual keyboard, otherwise seems fine. What's strange though is that I also have a 14 pro max for work with another Apple ID and on that phone nothing ever happened

No it hasn’t been fixed, at least for me. I can’t even believe this is a real thing. A thousand dollar phone and you can’t even type?

This is the fourth time that I have had an apple phone that was old and then one day I do an update and it never works the same again.

I think they do it on purpose in order to force people to buy new phones. Look at the incentive…. If they made a product that lasted forever they would make 1/10 of the profit.

if your phone just all of a sudden stops working, what are you gonna do most people get frustrated and just buy another one.

I was 100% convinced of this theory until I read people having the problem but newer phones so I don’t know what is going on but it’s nonsense when you spend this much money for a product

Its really bizarre this many people are having rhis problem and apple has done nothing about it for years.

It doesn’t matter what app I’m using or how many times I have disabled haptic feedback, deleted the keyboard, shut off predictive text etc. Nothing works.

When you start typing it’s like starting a countdown. The more characters you type the worst it gets. For example right now it’s starting to slow down to the point that is almost unusable.

The only way I fix it is by copying the text, force quitting the app and then re-opening it. That restarts the “countdown” and gets me a few more answers until I repeat the process.

The only thing that I have not tried is getting a new battery. I know that sounds ridiculous but I have tried everything else and when I look up the condition of my battery it IS degraded……

I have ordered a new battery and I’m waiting for it to get here. In the meantime if you are reading this, open up your settings and click on the battery health. If your battery is degraded significantly and your keyboard is lagging can you let me know? Thanks!