IOS 11 Keyboard lag

Hey,

I’ve experience also, it’s weird, I thought I fixed it by erasing my entire phone and restored it and it worked for awhile. Stopped lag and everything was smooth. But about a month I’d say has passed and the problem returned. Lag messaging all over again. My next try is erase everything and not restore from a backup. I got this paranoid feeling maybe some keylogger app maybe running because I can’t explain it. Wouldn’t know where to begin. I only visit legit XXX websites 😂😂😂😂. Seriously though this is my only other thing to try since it seemed to work nuking the phone completely. Just need to follow through with no old backups and start fresh.

On my side, upgrading my iphone 6 to IOS 11.3 improved overall performance significantly and removed all remaining keyboard lags. (Battery is at 95% of its capacity as I changed it a year ago).

So part of the problem was IOS 11 before this 11.3 release, the rest came from the dictionary reset which I never did before in 4 or 5 years.

Apple added this lag on purpose to make customers owning old devices buy new ones. There was a twitt about that where Apple justified this assault as a necessary measure to reduce battery drain. I am an Apple user and have iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Since Apple is insisting on keeping this imposed lag I am goin to sell all my devices and move reluctantly to Samsung.

Just another note, got a used iphone 6s, and it made everything super fast, no lag anywhere at all. THe iphone 6s is DOUBLE the ram of the 6, and has same amount of ram as the 7 and 8! Only the iphone X has more ram than the iphone 6s.

Honestly, ios 11 RUINED my iphone 6 and lag was too much to ignore, I'm a power user. The advice from many was to get a used Iphone 6s, and it fixed everything. It's over double the speed and the 7 and 8 aren't even much quicker. It's the techonolgy in the 6s chip and ram that was a new beginning for apple and phone it still ahead of it's time. All of these issues will be fixed with a 6s if on ios 11.

My iPhone has just recently started lagging. I have to push some buttons like 2 or 3 times before something shows up? I’ve tried restarting phone and soft resets freeing space everything and still isn’t helping? I don’t want to do a hard reset and lose everything.

Guys I know this is an old topic but I’ve been battling with this since the iOS 11 inception too. I’ve tried resetting settings to no avail but today I discovered something I’m not sure if it has been mentioned before but helped me a lot.

Additional to resetting the dictionary, I discovered I had three keyboards displaying (English (UK), Spanish and Emoji) but seven dictionaries checked (in Settings/General/Dictionary) including some French and Portuguese dictionaries. I solved it by deselecting the dictionaries I don’t need and only keeping British English, Spanish and Apple Dictionary.

My theory is that the keyboard starts lagging when trying to do spell check and autocorrect having so many dictionaries to check. Since removing those unwanted dictionaries, my keyboard has improved 100000%.

All keyboard settings such as auto capitalisation, predictive and check spelling are on, except from dictation.

If you still have the keyboard lag let me know if this helped you.

I know a perfect fix. Download and install Google's GBoard. It looks the same, works the same as Apple's and it's not anywhere as sluggish as Apple's. Once you install it, you'll never miss Apple's keyboard. And once a bunch of us do that, maybe Apple will take care of it. It's unbelievably irresponsible and irresponsive from Apple this matter. If you google it, you'll find this problem is in the boundary of 12~16 months old. They're already in iOS 11.4, and they haven't fixed it!. I'm a programer myself, and I know this sort of thing doesn't take that long to be solved. I wonder what would happen if Tesla sold cars with the steering wheel as irresponsive as iOS keyboard, Can you imagine?

Regards.

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

I have the same problem with Safari mainly, I even had trouble replying to this forum and had to do yet another restart to be able to type in here. This is on my iPad airII

I'm experiencing the exact same issue on my iPhone 7 plus. Started as soon as I installed iOS 11.

I'm having the issue as well on an iPhone 7. I actually hadn't had the issue at all until I upgraded to 11.1 last week.

I'm on 11.2 and still have the dreadful lag.

Same problem for me. Iphone 6s

I got fed up with the inconsistencies in this operating system and yesterday bought a Note 8 and I couldn't be happier. I'm not going to go back to iPhone