Slow performance and lag after iOS 26 update on iPhone

I disabled Apple Intelligence, And that seemed to initially help, but now the issues are back. Just simply scrolling on any app or any page is jittery and laggy. This is on an iPhone 15 Pro a phone that’s only two years old and that was the higher end. This is just completely unacceptable. Apple has got to issue a fix for this.

The update is awful. Not only slower, but my phone blacks out and I can’t see the button to end a call.

I can’t delete contacts, I can’t find what I need quickly.

WHY are you fixing what isn’t broken?

Giacomo_Saccone wrote:

Is it possible to downgrade?

Asked and answered.

I will never update before checking positive feedbacks.

While it's certainly a good plan to wait a bit before updating, comments on technical support forums will almost always skew negative, as they are places for people to come with problems. The larger group, the people without problems, aren't posting anything.

I also am not happy with this new IOS. Just opening mail or messages causes serious lags in loading content or simply not loading at all and having to close and reopen the app. It also seems and has been in previous IOSs, to be less intuitive requiring more steps to complete the same tasks. Then the layout of controls on safari and other apple apps is difficult to navigate with way too many hidden actions. Finally, the liquid glass should have never made it thru beta testing and obscures the clean look apple products typically have. This is by far my least favorite update. Please fix it.

I don't know why Apple acknowledges this should have been done better. Exactly in the same boat. It's not an 'momentum' after an initial update. It's a very very bad update and it should be fixed.

Also Apple should make it possible to revert back to the previous OS.

The keyboard-lag or random skipping is a disaster and should be done first.

The general lag - i'm sure they can fix it. I rater have LESS functionality and a functioning phone than this terrible update.

The iOS 16 update has completely disrupted all of my devices. My calendar is filled with nonsense events,birthdays and appointments showing in 1601, averaging 10–25 fake entries per day, making it unusable. All my contacts were wiped out, and the Photos app is completely messed up with wrong dates, fake albums, and massive battery drain. Has anyone been able to successfully transfer their calendar, and how? Does anyone have solutions for any of these issues?

Absolutely Not I won't agree this its very simple the way it works like every major updates, I understand there may be a few bugs and one or two little big but across all the devices acting weird and it's simply a disaster update in the APPLEs history. And im doubtful APPLE IOS / MAC OS team reading this ! waste of time.

IOS 26 is a nightmare! Every day I have another issue, and they always blame someone else for the failure of this update. The battery is only one of their issues. At this point, it's been months, and they still have no remedies. a strong reminder of what happened to BlackBerry

By now I'm really annoyed that Apple didn't fix the lag on my iPhone 13 mini. It worked perfect on iOS 18.

I changed transparency, uninstalled AdGuard Pro because it used VPN, tried other stuff but... to be honest:

This is really a very very bad update.

Apple should sign 18.x.x again to make it possible to revert to the previous version of iOS.

For the first time in two decades I'm really considering leaving the Apple ecosystem, the current situation in the US makes Apple (services) a liability too. I don't now the English equivalent but the Dutch saying is "Reputation comes by foot but leaves by horse."

I typed this on my iMac but t y pin g this on my iPh one would mean it ads random spa ces the fact that Apple did not fix that in .1 update really deminishes the overall usability of the iPhone.

Hi, iOS 26 and Liquid Glass are simply the design Apple has chosen to go with, for now. The iPhone User Interface has had several major redesigns in its near 20 year history. The last major redesign was iOS 7, back in 2014. We all somehow managed to get through them all. 

You may want to review the information in the article I linked to below. It explains the adjustments you can make to mitigate the effects of Liquid Glass that you’re experiencing. 

Liquid Glass - Love It Or Hate It - It's … - Apple Community

Apple’s installed user base is over 1.5 billion users. Making a single user interface perfectly compatible for every user is literally impossible. Apple will make changes (or not make changes) based partially on the feedback they receive through their official channel, linked below and good luck.

Product Feedback - Apple

I still experience substantial lag on previously smooth actions such as closing down apps by swiping up (I have disabled animations as well) and switching tabs in safari. I am on iPhone 14 256 GB, 100GB left on storage (low remaining storage leads to lag for almost any action)

Hello, my Wi-Fi doesn't work with the default settings after updating my iOS system. Wi-Fi only downloads and updates apps through VPN. Everything works fine with mobile data and without VPN. Can you please tell me what to do?

Mine is so slow and jittery that it's 2-3 second delay when typing and the responsiveness is far worse than early Samsung phones- I don't want to use this phone now and am not buying another device from apple. Great phone bricked by iOS update that can't be rolled back.

Agreed. I have issues as well and just unhappy in general with the things they changed that didn’t need to be changed. When you change the way something functions and call it an improvement, but it then adds extra steps to the process, like photos for example, it is not actually an improvement. It does nothing to make the phone function better. I now have to press extra buttons to get a folder to play a slideshow for example. I now have to toggle between library and collections instead of just being able to scroll down to the bottom of my photos and see all of my folders and shared folders. This has extra steps the end does not make it more convenient. Attention to Apple, we don’t need things to be changed that don’t improve the function of the phone, just so you can claim you made changes and claim they are improvements. They aren’t.

Apple has changed the look of Mac OS and iOS multiple times. Every time there are those the are challenged by the changes in appearance and functionality of some aspects of the User Interface. This is nothing new. 

Apple’s installed user base is over 1.5 billion users. Making a single user interface perfectly compatible for every user is literally impossible. Apple will make changes (or not make changes) based partially on the feedback they receive through their official channel, linked below and good luck.

Product Feedback - Apple

Apple and Apple Support do not participate in the communities here. They only moderate our posts to insure all user guidelines are followed in regard to content and user behavior. Your thoughts and feelings will not be reviewed by Apple. 

You may want to review the information in the article I linked to below. It explains the adjustments you can make to mitigate the effects of Liquid Glass that you’re experiencing. 

Liquid Glass - Love It Or Hate It - It's … - Apple Community