Bugs and lags after iOS 26 update

Jnhimanshu wrote:

I am also facing several issues like battery drain so quickly, performance issue. When i tap on home search button, then it even takes few second to load. I had to disable the reduce transparency option to minimise the impact of new release. But this IOS26 release was really not good at all.

Sorry, you have not provided any information to help, or what recommendations you have tried from this post. From that standpoint, all you can do is wait for the next point update currently being tested. We can't comment on the issues that have been resolved in this beta software, as that discussion is not allowed on public sites. For some that is the best option and they don't have to do any of the troubleshooting steps.

Of course there have been many different issues and some would be expected:

• In a couple of cases, a user posted their Battery Health and it was under 80%. The battery needed replaced and it was not the fault of iOS 26 and the same thing was happening to them on iOS 18.
• After the update, every user should experience battery drain, heat, and lag for a period of about 3-5 days for indexing. Apple posted a support article about this, but some users still post about battery drain when they updated yesterday. If you have a large photo library, give it an extra day or two for photo optimization of object detection algorithms. The device will have to be turned on and it is best when plugged into power for these background processes to complete quicker.
• Some users reported back that the Force Restart recommended earlier solved the problem they were experiencing.
• We have also seen problems with many VPN's, where once removed all issues were resolved.