System keyboard lags after iOS 8.1.1 update

OOf course we want an apple solution. This company wasn't like that. They took care of their Clients. But now they only care to overprice their buggy products. If this won't be solved properly and soon by apple I have decided that this will be the last product I buy from them.

After having to deal with this keyboard lag issue for almost a year, and having tried the solutions xankraegor mentions and others, I decided to do a fresh install in a brand new iPhone 6 Plus. No update, no restore from backup, just a fresh beginning in a new iPhone. And the lag was there.

Luckily I've found this thread, and tested the iCloud Drive off solution. It fixed the keyboard lag for good - well, for a month or so, now. I keep it off all the time, because as soon as I turn it on, the lag is there again...

Thank you, thank you, thank you! LAG finally gone on my iPhone 5!

This finally solved my problems. Apple really needs to fix this issu!

Again I will state that Apple has to fix this major issue since disabling icloud is not an option for everyone. I keep it on since I need syncing with my job and I have tried everything else (full restoration one of them) where I lost all my data from the iPhone 3g.... This IS an icloud bug so by full restore you gain nothing.

Apple wasn't like this.

It is very sad that Apple has done nada about this issue. I've had this problem since the first day of purchase (iphone6). It certainly resolves the issue by turning of icloud drive, but that is not an acceptable reason not to fix the bug at all. I've been waiting for an update that would fix this but none of all the updates have. Thanks Apple, for nothing.

Thanks for your fix! Worked perfectly. I also found once a turned iCloud Drive off and restarted my phone, I could then re-enable iCloud Drive and the keyboard issue remains resolved.

Hi xankraegor

I'm having the same trouble over several versions and suppose the cause is in keyboard shortcuts functionality. Could you please let me know if you use shortcuts actively? Thanks in advance.

I Confirm. I went to the keyboard shortcuts menu and discovered my shortcuts are corrupted. There is one shortcut that I cannot delete. As I try to delete it it keeps reappearing.

Here is a YouTube link:

http://youtu.be/KXtDxtRpKro

The same happens on all my iOS 8 devices, whereas on my MacBook there is no problem, I can delete all the keyboard shortcuts without any problems.

Thank you for your reply. Now I'm almost 100% sure the cause of problem is in shortcuts. They work good on Macbook because it's another system and implementation of functionality is different. Unfortunately, the problem exists from iOS 6 and is not fixed so far. It's maybe because no much people use shortcuts. So we should wait or write to Tim Cook directly 🙂

I am trying to figure out a solution. I also speak with apple care but still there is no solution.

All of you that you have this problems, do you have any device THAT IS NOT iOS 8 or Yosemite?

It could be an non iOS8 or Yosemite device causing this since they are not compatible with iCloud drive?

Also, do you ALSO have problems accessing camera from the locked screen?

Ok I have got somewhere. This is a solution that worked for me, having problem from iOS 8 Launch, and being desparate for a solution. You just have to have a Mac to do it. Do it with your own risk.

Open terminal and paste:

ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/ ~/Desktop/Real\ iCloud\ Drive

This will create a shortcut of the "real" iCloud drive on your desktop. This means that in this folder not only you see everything that Apple approves you to see but also everything that is hidden from you.

Open the folder named "Real iCloud drive" and select the list view. No other view will work. Consider some time in order to let your Mac sync all the files with the cloud, so let the folder open on the finder for some time.

When everything appears, find the folder named "Settings". Be careful: this folder might be translated to your language (mine was Ρυθμισεις in Greek).

Press the arrow in order to show the folder contents.

Inside there should be a folder called "Dictionaries". This must be the folder causing all the keyboard lag. And yes, you have to delete it. You have to delete it again and again, as long as it needs in order to keep the problem fixed.

In my experience, I deleted it and used my iPhone in order to delete once again the buggy shortcut. As long as I deleted it I tried to write something in the notes. I had still problem! I saw on my Mac that the folder reappeared and I deleted it again, and I deleted again the shortcut from my iPhone. I used the iPhone and it is OK a day and more now!

Also, I had to do the same procedure also for my iPad. I did it an hour or something after I realized and made sure my iPhone worked fine.

Now there is no buggy shortcut in neither of my devices and there is no keyboard lag, with iCloud open of course!

I hope it works for you also!

Perfect! Works like a dream now! Thanks!