iPhone keyboard lagging after iOS 18 Update

Yes! This is literally me. I’d been thinking it was my phone because of how old it is compared to the newest ones (11) but My friend who has the 14 told me last night that she updated to iOS 18 and her keyboard started glitching like crazy when she’d never had problems with it before so it wasn’t just my phone. Which is what made me come look into it

iOS 18.1.1 issue is still happening even in the passcode sign on screen. I have reset the keyboard dictionary and disabled multiple options on the keyboard and I can still type 2 to 3 sentences before the on screen keyboard catches up. The lag is horrible I thought by installing Google board that it would help, but the problem still exist, even in third-party applications. I uninstalled the Google board and I am still having issues with the regular iOS keyboard the other issue is it's not suggesting emojis either when I have the options enabled and the emoji keyboard enabled. I have tried reset all settings and the problem still exist.

Apparently Apple do get data about this sort of problems but either don't care or they don't know what really causes it.

If you look into analytic data on your iPhone, you can see that the phone sends regular reports back to Apple about any bug. In my case for example, only in the past 4 days the phone reported multiple problems with the keyboard. I used chat gpt to decode the file, as it is easier to read this way.

i also experienced random heating lately while scrolling on websites on Safari and doing light tasks. Those heating issues also appear in the analytics but somehow Apple manages to screw something back with every update lately.

I just updated to iOS 18.2 and I dunno everything feels much better. In fact I turned auto correct back on and predictive text and it feels about the same as before.

the biggest surprise was how my iPad mini 5 felt after the update. That tends to be my test bench before I update my iPhone 12. I do a lot of studying and note taking on the mini with split screen. And I like having the notes app opened while I jot down some notes along the way. And it doesn’t lag so hard like it did before. Here’s hoping this is a sign things are getting better.

Tell me it ain’t so Apple tell me it ain’t so has the new update fixed my keyboard? I think it might’ve I am so optimistic. I am speechless. Yeah has anyone else experienced the no more lagging keyboard with the love of God after this most recent update that I just did today please let me know. Yeah, could it be fixed?

You must do a force reset (up volume down volume and hold power button until it resets. It’s better but still slow. **** nothing truly works this is ridiculous.

Have not had this issue since I turned off every AI assist toggle I could in IOS. Start with:

Disabling Apple Intelligence on iPhone

1. Open System Settings.
2. Scroll to find "Apple Intelligence & Siri"
3. Toggle off "Apple Intelligence"
4. Confirm the disable prompt.

Just one example of how awful Siri is, let alone AI. I use dictation a lot to write email on my Macbook M1. I write my friend Michelle a lot. Even though by the time I start composing , "Michelle" with two L's is in the subject line, every single time it misspells it "Michele" in the body. Intelligence my a**.

Hope this helps.

Nope it still doesn't work proper. If I delete one of the languages and leave only English or my main language it's all right, but if I have both on it's unbearable

This is WRONG. I have bought an iPhone 16 Pro Max in September, on which I haven’t restored any backup. Hence a fresh install.

IOS 18 (same for 17), has a keyboard bug, fullstop.

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

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.

https://youtube.com/shorts/U9v6lgiAalc?si=1asvOWFL0kPGnWmp

there's a video of it happening. the word flowers is lagging it out hard too. you can see the word "bee" just appear, without individually typed letters b-e-e- because it's lagged out so much from flowers.

I am coming from iPhone 13 Pro Max, as in your case the issue started as I have upgraded to IOS 17. Then, I have recently upgraded to iPhone 16 Pro Max, but same laggy keyboard.

Again, as in your case, I have another phone to compare with, in my case my wife’s phone, which is the same phone you own (15 Pro Max), but in her case the keyboard is perfect.

The keyboard settings are exactly the same on our two phones. I am wondering if any background app which I have is causing this slowness, don’t know if it is possible, but apps are the only difference between our phones (model apart).

I have been testing it the entire day before updating with my experience. I think there has been a slight improvement, but from time to time with some apps the keyboard is still very laggy and some keys don’t respond. In my case when the keyboard is laggy the backspace is not working well, like I am not pressing the button hitting the action center.

Actually, while I am writing this comment, the keyboard started being laggy again, confirming what I thought already, basically even when the text becomes longer the keyboard starts being slow.

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

I have noticed that keyboard looks good after rebooting the phone. Then I have seen that keyboard could lag on one app and not on another (same time, like passing from iMessage to Whatsapp), plus, longer is the message, higher is the lagging.

maybe some memory leaks occur, who knows.

BTW 18.1.1 didn’t fix the problem.

This kind of issues are honestly embarrassing for a company like Apple.