Assistive touch is causing heavy amounts of lag on my iPhone 5 running iOS7 while navigating and carrying out basic tasks. As soon as I turn it off it goes away. Solutions?

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Assistive touch is causing heavy amounts of lag on my iPhone 5 running iOS7 while navigating and carrying out basic tasks. As soon as I turn it off it goes away. Solutions?

As the title states, as soon as I turn assistive touch off the lag seems to go away entirely. This lag can consist of slow chat bubbles forming while sending messages, extremely slow transitions from landscape to portrait, stuttering notification scrolling and a choppy siri experience.

In order to be lag-free while using assistive touch, I have to turn on increased contrast from the settings to reduce the load on the phone. Why does it have to be an either/or kind of situation? So basically if I want to make my iPhone 5 fluid and tolerable to use again I have to sacrifice the visual translucency with the new OS? Also, there are others with this issue. Solutions?

I have already reset my phone, restored it etc etc.

Please help!

iPhone 5, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 19, 2013 1:52 PM

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PozG

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Sep 20, 2013 8:05 AM in response to Floko127

I'm having the same problem. I always turn assistive touch on. The lag has come up since I updated my phone to ios7. I tried restoring so many times but it didn't help at all. Since I saw this discussion, I turn it off then the lag is gone just like you said. Anyway, I love using assistive touch. I hope they find the way to fix this problem soon.

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Floko127 Author

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Sep 20, 2013 4:02 PM in response to PozG

Another way to continue using assistive touch and reducing the lag completely is to go to Settings>General>Assistance>Increase contrast>On

This solved it for me but I am hoping its just a part time fix as I enjoy the translucent visuals. Increase contrast basically takes away the layering found across the OS. My lock button is broken so I am forced to use assistive touch and this is really the only thing I can do rightnow. Try it out it should work well for you if you're willing to make a small sacrifice.

However, Apple should adress this issue as the iPhone 5 should be able to handle this kind of load from the OS without any issues especially considering that the 5C, which comes preloaded with iOS7 has the same internal hardware.

Hope this helps you, for the time being until Apple, hopefully, fixes this issue.

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Sep 20, 2013 8:44 PM in response to Floko127

Same problem here! I'm on ipod TOuch 5th gen, I'm glad to hear this is a software problem, i thought its because of my ipod problem, the contrast things it helped me alot, the animation seems to be more smooth now, thank you for such a great advice! Hope apple fixes this, i love transperancy

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mariagzl

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Sep 22, 2013 1:58 AM in response to Floko127

Thank you so much!!!! This solve the lag problem cause by assistive touch when turned on. You're the best!:) I hipe should fix this tho. Thanks again!

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hui_evo9

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Oct 21, 2013 8:56 PM in response to Floko127

Yes, I feel lag on my iphone5s as well, when I switch on assistive touch, that was ridiculous. Since it is using the newest processor from Apple. It should not have this kind of problem.

Apple should fix it.

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Dec 23, 2013 1:16 AM in response to Floko127

Hey, i have the same problem and it really pissses me off when i play games and face lag in my 5s,

support centre has no solution for this and i have to always turn ON the intensity so that the phone can run normally.

Does anyone have another solution?

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Jieen

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Jan 14, 2014 6:00 AM in response to Floko127

This works for my iPhone5s too! Thanks a lot bro!:)

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avik894

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Dec 21, 2014 8:51 PM in response to Floko127

Yes Assistive touch slows down device heavily and also drain battery. New devices like I have 5c it doesn't make tht much problem but for I have an ipad 1, that already slow and assistive touch makes it super slow. I did't notice the lag initailly but just after a day it was very clear. Turn it off and then restart it then the problem went off.

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