iOS 26.2.1 has rendered my phone unusable

It’s unbelievable how disruptive this is, especially in a healthcare setting when every few minutes you have to restart the phone and when it does come up, the keypad freezes and you have to restart.

Apple must address this issue ASAP.

nelsonmor wrote:

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I’m 100% sure the 26.2.1 update broke both the eSIM and GPS functionality. The main problem is that Apple won't admit it's a software bug, and they haven't provided a fix or a way to downgrade without wiping the phone's data.

Software bugs affect everybody, this affects you and maybe. few others. So not a bug.

Yes your phone can get damaged by an update if it is already on a knife edge due to weak hardware.

You may have to buy a new phone.

I'm struggling to do my job because my phone is sluggish. Opening an app takes forever, and phone seems to "pause" before it responds to anything I'm trying to send or do. Please Apple, fix this mess!

iOS 26 update is terrible. I can’t read anything on the internet without article jumping up to the top even when I’m half way through. After I updated to 18. 2 a huge amount of my photos in messages turned to green bubbles and my see all feature was not working. I was told so called engineers were fixing it. That was in 2023. Now it’s worse. Apple charges so much money for their phones. The18.26 update is also very hard to navigate. Who cares about the glass look. Apple shouldn’t put out updates unless they are thoroughly checked. They don’t seem to care about their customers. Renee

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

iOS 26.2.1 has messed up the mark up function for files. On a w-9 that I’m trying to fill out: When I click the text function to fill out the form; it shows thin vertical blue lines all across the document. The opposite of the horizontal lines that you need to be able to fill in text.

Please start your own thread instead of trying to hijack someone else's.

Please send me instruction where to write to Apple I’m very disappointed on IOS 26.1.2 on iPhone 15promac is a disaster very slowed and not intuitive with menu bar going CRAZY

First post, my mistake. Hope serious damage not done.

Have over 60 GB of memory and having same issues. Even tried deleting reloading apps. Continue to have the same issues.

My phone is unusable too! The battery is draining SO fast! 1 percent in 2 minutes!? my phone’s battery suddenly became so inefficient only after this update

Thank you for posting. I have had similar issues with slow processing, apps freezing, phone crashing and forced restoration and rebooting with this update. Haven't had it this bad before in years.

How to remove this update? Outrageous!! Phone practically unusable

This broken update seems to be affecting a lot of people. How have they not fixed it yet???