Why does keyboard in new iOS 7 Pages have such a slow response? I have a 3rd gen iPad. Anyone with same issue?

same problem here. its unusable

This worked for me: http://ipadtutr.com/fix-keyboard-delay-issue/

Hi 95bulls

I don't know about Matteo, but I have already tried the reset and i want to use icloud document sharing, so kind of stuck. So sad, another issue apple don't seem to care about, I've seen so many complaints / comments regarding this issue but never any response from Apple.

Yes, really frustrating. I use pages for stage diagrams. Every time there is an update, the diagrams shift and I have to redo them. But worse, it takes for ever for the touchscreen to respond. I guess I have to go back to using msWord for mac on my laptop. What a shame. It used to work so well.

When I start a new document, it works well, but the more shapes that I put on there, the slower it goes, so that by the end, there is a five second delay for each gesture and resultant image to change. This did not used to be the case, and Apple will have to do better. Really, this is a significant deterioration of the product. Frankly, I wish they would just leave the stuff alone. It was better before.

Congratulations, Matteo (I mean this sincerely and not snarkily!). For me, the problems with Pages continue. When you throw a couple of graphics on the page, it works smoothly, but with each additional graphic you put up, it gets slower, more sluggish, and more jittery. It is about 5 seconds, between making a gesture, like sliding a form one direction, and it actually responding. What is more, when a forward these documents to non-Apple coworkers as a pdf, most times, the email comes stripped. This necessitated taking screen shots and forwarding photos. Very cumbersome. My conclusion is that, while Pages is a nice word processing program, it cannot handle anything but basic graphics. I have since bought Noteworthy, which, though a bit more complicated at first, seems to resolve these issues. I was reluctant: I prefer to stay in-house for work apps because they have a greater chance of being supported. I hope Apple can make Pages more robust in the ways I have mentioned. About a year ago, a team from iWorks swooped down and asked me send them documents. I did, three times, essentially trying to help with R n D, and never heard back from them, nor did I see the problem resolved. So I am frustrated and disappointed with the app and with Apple's way of handling it.

Thanks, Matteo,

In fact, everything you say sounds reasonable to me. Maybe that makes me a conspiracy theorist, too? ;). It would be great to have something like what you are describing, and I would pay a little something for it. Cheers!

I'm happy to report that the problem is not with the iPad, at least not my iPad 3, although I experience the lag between clicking the keys and the characters appearing on my iPad screen in the Pages iOS app, ver 2.6.1 on iOS 9.3.1 (and with iOS 7 and 8 and prior versions of the Pages app), like everyone else who has reported the frustrating, incredibly bad lag. No amount of memory clearing and reboots solve the problem. The solution? Don't use the Pages app. The Pages app is faulty. When I use the MS Word iOS app, ver 1.2, my keystrokes appear instantly on the iPad 3 screen, without any delay. After using Pages, using Word is like witnessing magic. All the frustrations fade away. The problem isn't the hardware or even iOS 7, 8 or 9. It's not your keyboard or the Bluetooth connection. It's the Pages app. Spread the word. Hundreds of thousands of people will thank you, and maybe Apple will fix their Pages app. I don't have a dog in the hunt between MS, Apple, or any other tech company. Other word processing apps may work just as well as MS Word on an iPad 3 with iOS 9. I'm just telling you how to solve your key lag problem without spending a dime. Word. (all puns intended)

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