IOS 11 Keyboard lag

This issue is effecting my iPhone 7 too. It happend immediately after updating to iOS11. After 5+ updates it is still not fixed and rather disappointing. The only way I can fix it is to close every other app. I loved iOS because it was something. I never had to worry about, while my Android using friends were constantly closing apps.

Craig Federighi, wth happened with this release?

I have this problem too. For me, it is beyond just some delays, it's a huge issue. I cannot send the full text of messages I want to send, I look unprofessional as my typing is getting messed up, etc. Just typing any random character sequence, locks it up for 8 seconds or more. For each edit. In the middle of a professional exchange. Thus taking *minutes* to respond.

I have a (4 month old) 6S that this is happening on. So, I bought a iPhone 8 and tried using it instead. First from backup, then, using the only solution they are giving me, which is to NOT USE MY BACKUP, set up a phone from scratch. Given I had no choice, I tried that. Guess what, only a hour into that work of setting it up... the iPhone 8 was starting to exhibit the SAME PROBLEM. This is a fresh phone, no backup, no "bad software stuck in the backup".

This is just unacceptable. Apple, we need a solution. This is affecting my well-being.

Hi everyone,

after switching to the iPhone X and possibly after updating to iOS 11, I have experienced these random keyboard lags almost every day. It is totally annoying, since we talk about a smart phone for over 1300€ (- German price, i.e., approx 1500$).

A restart always helps for a little while but latest after one day heavy lagging starts again. I am very astonished that this has not been fixed yet. I tried the fix with removing textinput from the backup list but I am not very confident that it will help (at least immediately after i did that, the problem occurred again).
Maybe switching to another software keyboard could help...

Best,

Martin

Since this is Apple, you only have two choices two avoid performance issues:

1. Buy the latest Apple device, and repeat after every new iOS.

2. Switch to another brand. (that solved all my iPhone issues).

Otherwise you will have a device that will just get worse on every update, even if you believe that the new called new features should not slow down a device, it is known that Apple is capable and willing to slow down your device using software updates. If you are ok with that just keep buying devices every year, otherwise switch to another brand.

If you have performance issues with iOS most likely they will not be solved because looks like we belong to a minority and just exagerating things.

Please let us know what settings you mess around with that fixes it for you? Turn imessage off for a while.... Turn dictation off... TUrn off contact photos in messages... Mess around and tell us what you find makes it better.

I was too quick with the post. Still experiencing the same latency.

LunarFalcon's mentioned fix works. ICloud keyboard data corruption is obviously the issue.

Follow the instructions it worked for me, 2 weeks lag free.

Hi Jason,

Dictionnary reset was done prior to IOS 11.3 upgrade but only solved the severe keyboard lag.

Rgds

Vincent

Which iphone?
Reset keyboard dictionary

Hi

I have a similar problem when I type in numbers using the phone keypad it can take 8 secs before they appear! Only happened after upgrade and have cleared phone and reinstalled software and still have the same problem. Anyone else experiencing this? Waisted about 4 hours trying to fix ... why did I accept the upgrade? 🙄

Had to do this to actually get the problem solved. It's a shame, though. With this poor quality on things like the keyboard or the apps running poorly due to how unstable the system is, iPhones are no longer better than cheap Androids out there.

Same problem on my iPhone 6s, iPhone 8 and to a lesser extent my iPad Air. I’ve turned off all keyboard options and used SwiftKey and Swipe to no avail. Reset works for a couple of days. I had hoped the iPhone 8 would solve the issue. Nope!

Apple for goodness sake, I have had this problem since moving off IOS 10 on my iPhone 6, have upgraded every version of IOS 11.x available.

From all the posts on this even blind Freddy can see you introduced an issue into your software 11 upgrade.

Fix the dam thing, SJ would would not tolerate this incomptance if he was still here today.

Just installed 11.1.1 and they have actually made it worse. Now the auto correct tries to add all the words together and correct the whole sentence at once. Like someone said SJ would never have let such incompetence occur. Any one got a link on how to load Android onto a iPad (joke)(I think)........