Slow on-screen keyboard typing in Pages with ios 9, ipad air

I still seem to have this problem using the latest version of Pages and iOS 9.2 beta 4...

Hey RainbowWeaving I also am experiencing this same issue. I purchased a new 6S on Cyber Monday, I started using Pages yesterday and it has the exact same issue as Gitanomad. I am running iOS 9.0, and haven updated yet. Does anybody know of any solutions before I try updating to iOS 9.0.?

I just would like to chime in here. I have the same problem on both an iPhone 6S plus and and iPad Air: the keyboard is sometimes incredibly slow rendering mail and messages nearly unusable. The swiftkey keyboard often works better.

For me, the problem is not with the iPad, at least not my iPad 3, although I have experienced for years the lag between clicking the keys and the characters appearing on my iPad screen in the Pages iOS app, currently 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 for longer than a few minutes, if at all. 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 iPad or keyboard or the Bluetooth connection. It's the Pages app, even the latest version (and virtually every prior version). 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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My Pages experience is this: when I first open a document on my iPad, typing is fine, no lag. If I switch to another app or the iPad times out, when I return to Pages the keyboard lag is so bad as to be unusable. Re-opening the document cures the problem until the next time the Pages app loses focus. I began to look at an alternative and tried IA Writer. I exported a test document from IA Writer to Pages and found that this document worked fine in Pages, no lag no matter how often I left the app and returned. I then tried with another file type by creating a .docx version of a pages document on my macbook (I'm using iCloud) and when I opened this in Pages on my ipad, it worked fine, so I'm using this workround to write on my iPad with no keyboard lag.

I've posted this problem in several forums in the forlorn hope that someone in Apple will give a monkey's and fix this long-standing issue. That Apple's word processor can handle other document formats but not it's own is a very poor reflection on the developers and testers. This is the kind of sloppy software you might expect from a start-up that is not going to make it or a successful company in decline. Apple is making huge profits every quarter so there is no excuse for not putting in the resources needed to fix this, unless it is simply the case that Apple doesn't give s**t.

This is the exact problem I have. Works fine until I switch apps and then when I come back there is serious lag!! So frustrating. Shouldn't have to close and open document every time.