Slow performance and lag after iOS 26 update on iPhone

Same. iOS 26 and 26.1 on the 17 pro max is awful. So buggy, inconsistent behaviors throughout the software. Awful. Wish I had never upgraded. A trillion dollar company and this is what we get

Omg thank you so much!! I feel a huge difference since i toggled off Apple AI

Me too! Sucks. I shouldn’t have to do all theses things with a brand new iPhone 17.

Agreed!

Similar issues on update iPad 11 Pro 4th Gen. shouldn’t have bothered with this update now.

yeah maybe for a couple hours, now way it’s 3-5 days

Really regret upgrading to iOS 26, phone performance is slow, lagging overall frustrating, my iPhone 16 pro was amazing and lightning fast, now is just slow 🤬🤬🤬😡😡

I’ve got an iPhone 17 pro max and I’m experiencing some lag without a single one of the problems mentioned, I would downgrade to ios18 if possible but I can’t.

William Donelson wrote:

Just google: List of problems with iOS26

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My phone still lags and has become noticeably slower since the update

I have an IPhone 14 Pro Max, It currently has the IOS 26.1 (23B85) version. •.•

SAME

Apple Intelligence definitely is not ready to be released not to mention the fact that it’s a massive Battery hog Even with the battery having its own processor now… I turned off AI and the three reduce motion settings there’s Quite a few settings very deep that Will not auto populate when you search. Drill down on everything in accessibilities and turn off live listen that’s in At least three different settings. Other than me being in the middle of Of the US Cellular/Tmobile Tower issue that’s got me stuck on a US cellular tower that’s too busy; I can barely get a webpage to Load, horrible phone quality because the lines are so busy and the signal is weak where I live, And the phone is constantly trying to connect to a 5G tower so I’ve override that as well and locked into LTE as a work around everything else is working great after changing all the settings and Disabling AI. I also turned on reduce white point and move the slider all the way to the left, turned on true tone and moved it left of center, turrned cursor to large and not blinking. Apple copy paste their field test results into my account per my request after troubleshooting with them and they confirmed exactly what I already knew about the tower issue even though I was showing four bars 5G plus getting 148 MB on the download speed… Still horrible connection on the phone major interference drop calls And excessive lagging while loading a webpage.

Good luck

iPhone 14Pro here on iOS 26.1, 256GB.

Go to Settings > Search.

Turn off “Help Apple improve search”.

It changed a lot for me, phone is usable again. I guess it must have been setting up some encrypted connection with Apple servers every time search was available (any browser address input, in many apps etc). Before the change I practically couldn’t use safari. Now it’s smooth.