Iphone x SLOW and LAGGY

Here's a fix that worked well on my iPhone 8 Plus and also my older devices.

Go into Settings > General > Accessibility > Increase Contrast > REDUCE TRANSPARENCY: ON

By turning this on, you will see your iPhone lag a lot less, but some of the menus will look less aesthetic. Not really a big deal.

Thank you, your advice fixed the problem I was having with my iPhone X lagging between apps, occasionally closing apps, and processing slowly. Now, I’ve turned “reduce transparency” on and it’s almost as fast as it was when I got it.

This is what he means by increasing contrast on certain things btw. No big deal if you’d prefer your phone to work faster

Do you see the same on demo phones at your local dealer?

If so, it's just the way it works and you may be more sensitive than most to it (I certainly don't see anything like that.)

If not, take a look at what apps you have running; one or more may be using excess processor time.

I have my iPhone X and iPhone 6s Plus which just came back from battery repair. I have restored both phones from the same icloud backup. They are about as identical as they can be and yet performance isn't even close.

What's a little hard to describe is the circumstances needed to reproduce but it happens often and the most common use case for me is I get an update from Facebook or Twitter that something has just come in. If I click the notification then I'm brought to the App and often with the iPhone X I'm waiting for 30-40 seconds before the update is visible. On the iPhone 6s Plus it's about 1 second.

Sometimes on Facebook it's even worse, I just get brought to basic frame Facebook app frame and there's a blank white screen with a back arrow. It never loads. I don't ever remember this happening with the 6s Plus but I haven't tested this enough there to be sure.

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When things like that happen, it's almost always a runaway app.

Try to close any apps you're not actively using; that isn't normally necessary but it can be if an app is misbehaving.

You may also want to check using the Battery settings window to see if any app is using more power than it should, also indicative of a runaway app.

Thank you William,

I almost always close out my apps when I’m finished with them. I checked my battery usage, and nothing seems out of the ordinary (I do spend a lot of time on safari, which was 24% of my battery life, but that sounds about right).

I’ve also tried Settings>>>General>>>Accesibility>>>Increase Contrast>>>“reduce transparency” because I saw where someone said that helps, and I can say it has helped significantly. But the problem is still there, with the glitching/lagging and unresponsiveness. And now my display doesn’t look as beautifully seamless as the software is intended to make it look.

Any other suggestions? This phone was $1149, and for it to be lagging like this is definitely frustrating.

Thanks,

Austin

If you play with any of the sample iPhone Xs at any Apple Store you will find none of them to be slow or laggy.

If you are experiencing this issue, and you can't narrow it down to a specific app, you may want to try taking your phone to your local Apple Store for further diagnosis.

The infamous Reset all settings did the Trick for me , now it's much smoother

The only issue that remains since ever is the magnifier that appears from time to time

when the accessibility zoom is on and without touching anything, just when switching iphone upside down

and vice versa ...

For iphone, reset all settings starts to become un simple reboot at windows os level ...

I noticed this as well but only when the weather is hot. In my car running waze and before the temperature start to decrease , this is almost impossible to use it , very slow answer. It’s like because it’s hot he slow down the process.

My phone has also been working slow for the past few days, like when I press bottoms on a app I have to do it twice and when I tap something it just freezes for a few seconds and I have to power off my phone I’m really upset about this

This is likely due to the iOS 11.4 update. When I bought my iphone 8plus, it was working buttery smooth, but the moment I updated to 11.4 things started treading ever so slightly into the laggy category. And also with 3 gigs of RAM, you cannot multitask like crazy (if that is what you were doing)though I have seen videos on YouTube pretty much doing exactly that. But in real world usage you have lots of background apps that constantly refresh over the internet. My suggestion would be to kill/delete apps that you rarely use and keep background refresh ON for only those which are essential for your purpose and hope for iOS 12.

This is the issue that brought me to this thread. Clicking on a Facebook update just to sit there at a blank Facebook screen. Safari also takes longer to load than my 6s did. I’m on 11.4 and the phone is just slow.

Wait so how do I fix it mines laggy too

I have the problem from time to time,

it becomes very laggy and the only quickfix i found until now is to restart the iPhone X

i think this has happened to me only on 11.2