Q: My iPhone 5 keeps freezing

I'm having the same problem. Has anyone found an acceptable resolution?

My perfectly maintained phone, bought new about a year ago has that same problem. It happens on many of my calls, and happens on iOS 8.02 and 8.1 both. Apple has been unable to solve it with my support call to them, using their advice to restore the phone from my iTunes backup. Today on a second call I told them I was unwilling to update to 8.1.1 unless they said specifically in writing that update solves the problem. They gave me no assurance the update solves the problem. Apple has finally tipped me in favor of looking at competitor's phones or jail-breaking my 5, as their software is regularly glitchy or unreliable.

REMOVE emoji , go to settings delete keyboard dictionnary , restart and

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YOu dt imagine guys , some of the cases have freezing issues but when on charge , nothing at all so u can simply innovate something like the charger's pin

Finally figured out the problem. It's a bad Sim card. Take it out, it won't freeze. Put it back in it'll freeze with in minutes. I remember this happening to an old Sony Erickson phone I had. The only solution is to go to your cell provider and get a new Sim card. Hope that helps.

my iPhone's home button doesn't work, nor does my off and on button work, so basically I'm screwed. and mine freezes for like a hour or more its mainly on text but a lot of it gets frozen and i hate to get a new phone and then i have to set up all that crap and every things just annoying . i feel like its because the iPhone 5 is kinda getting out dated and with all the new updates it just doesn't really work with the iPhone 5 as that well. but they are also kinda new but then not. and plus not every one wants to get a 6\6plus. its so frustrating please help.

so like my sim card is old? i kinda just got it like a year ago.

MY iphone 5 has started freezing more and more. I have to reboot several  times a day.  It is very annoying. It doesn't seem to matter what function I am using. Apple needs to address this problem or will lose their loyal fan base. It seems there are glitches in their recent updstes! 

I'm having the same trouble too. Just within the last hour I've reset & restarted my phone 5 times cause it freezes or lags.  I don't know what to do anymore... Possibly considering a new phone but I can't afford a new one.

just throwing in my solution - for me it was >20,000 unread messages. iphone 5 locks up when it tries to sync emails (very sporadic). I made all my emails read through the webinterface and now the iphone is happy as a clam.

I purchased this iPhone 5 a few years back. It worked well. The last update I had to do on this, did something to this. now I press the home button umpteen times before it finally pulls up the unlock screen. my unlock works, but sometimes my messages won't let me type.

If I leave it plugged in, and need to answer the phone, or send a text. forge it. I have to unplug it and then do it. If I miss a important call, than I have to call and find out who it was. pain in the arse.

I do know this, my next phone won't be an apple anymore. they aren't as good as they once was. I don't like the big phones that look like a **** tv or tablet. I just like the smaller versions of smart phones. So I will be going elsewhere here in about three months.

I have plugged this into ITunes, I cloud. I tried to update, restore all kinds of stuff and it just makes it worse.