Just an update to the iOS 26 update. So it’s been a month now since installing iOS 26 and compared to iOS 18 and all previous iOS versions this one is the worst. I can’t see anything it did to make my iPhone better. The lagging is still there. The battery still drains quickly and overheats. I’ve read through this whole forum several times and waited weeks for all the indexing to complete, I turned off Apple Intelligence, I turned off the reduce transparency display, I added the iOS 26.0.1 patch, I never dropped my phone, didn’t jailbreak it, bought it brand new from the actual apple store paid in full in person, always used a protective case, updated all the apps that I could and yet the problems and glitches and lag persists. Even going to the App Store or using Apple Maps or the weather app or the clock app all original apps nothing 3rd party outsourced doesnt work properly. Nothing works like it did with iOS 18. That worked perfectly. I have full bars reception data 5G there works. And now my phone is slow, glitchy and it’s not an upgrade. iOS 26 was a major downgrade. Probably should have waited to install after 26.2 or 26.3 was released. It shouldn’t take 4 weeks after installation to have it running smoothly. But I’m not a software engineer or developer so all I can compare it to is the 14 years of continuous use of other iPhones models and iOS versions. It’s hard to say it was working perfectly before the update and is now not working good after the update. And reading through all the comments and troubleshooting is like okay I did this and I did that and I am still experiencing lag and glitches so now what. Those issues weren’t there before. I guess it’s my fault for installing iOS 26. Maybe they should have just gone incremental improvements like from 18 to 19 to 20 instead of trying to leap ahead to 26.
