Slow performance and lag after iOS 26 update on iPhone

Hi can someone help me out here

I’ve been using iPhone 13mini for so long and after the iOS 26 update my battery is draining super fast and my phone is getting so hot it’s been a week. I’ve alrdy turned off most of the settings but it’s still the same. Until today my phone was extremely hot and prompt a notification to turn off my phone and caused a siren sound like that. What am I suppose to do 😭

I updated my 12,13&14 to the iOS26 strait after I had extremely hot phones and battery usage was very low but after 10 days that was back but I’m still getting really slow usage on all my phones when will this end

Dear Apple people could you resign or give us a limited option to downgrade to the latest version os iOS 26 I’m on my iPhone 13 and it runs like **** and stutters on the home screen the performance is a huge downgrade make it more optimized and run better

As others have mentioned, performance issues are noticeable. The most significant issue I observed was the search function in the message app is unable to find messages before I downloaded the new iOS. This is particularly frustrating as I now have to scroll to find old messages. Major design flaw !

i have iphone 12 (base model) battery capacity 85%

the same thing happened with me, and it’s been about 3 weeks and still laggy, i have 50g of open storage and idk why it’s still laggy, anyone know how to fix?

Same with me. Ever since i updated to IOS26 my iphone 16 plus has bren extremely slow and laggy. This has been the case for 3 weeks now. Before the update there was no problems. Seriously considering switching to android

exactly my point. 4 trillion dollars btw. I just got a 17 pro and i barely notice a performance difference between this and the 15 pro. the OS is so bad that its slowing down even a brand new chip 2 gens newer than my last one.

Me too. It’s not a massive issue, but when I now scroll from my widgets screen back to Home screen it buffers awful. Apple devices are that smooth that you notice minor things like this. It’s not the usually smooth experience I’m accustomed to from my wonderful Apple device. Other than that the latest update is brilliant.

as soon as i down loaded iOs 26 and 26.1 my phone lags. The apps take forever to open. When i type it’s a delay. I have to keep restarting my phone for it to work out. I have the iPhone 16 and want the 17 but if the new updates make your phone at weird it’s not worth it. I never had this problem in the past. So in wondering why the new update has my phone lagging at everything.

I updated my iPhone several weeks ago and it’s still lagging. Especially when I unlock the screen, it takes generally up to 5 seconds to load my apps - I just get my background photo for the first few seconds.

I am facing this issue too. Mine is new brand new iphone 16 pro not even 6 months old .. so annoying t o see this lag and then we have to restart the phone. imagine me in an emergency and my fone crashes like this its ridiculous

I desperately want to downgrade from IOS 26 to 18.X for my iPhone 13 Pro Max. It's truly bad ever I experienced from the apples history of IOS updates from the very first iPhone so called #1 to 13 and surprisingly apple removed stopped the downgrade support for IOS 26 and WHY? WTH

suchinjack wrote:

I desperately want to downgrade from IOS 26 to 18.X for my iPhone 13 Pro Max. It's truly bad ever I experienced from the apples history of IOS updates from the very first iPhone so called #1 to 13 and surprisingly apple removed stopped the downgrade support for IOS 26 and WHY? WTH

Downgraded has never been supported on any version of software, there has been no change.

Amen, it’s ridiculous. Besides a slow buggy experience on my iPhone 16 Pro I’m also having problems with the screen brightness / white point / contrast / legibility. Eyes hurting and headaches. It’s been so many problems since iOS 26 and 26.1. Giving it 2 more weeks and if still issues I’m afraid I’ll have to leave the Apple architecture.

Apps crashing, the lag is worse, unresponsiveness, liquid in usb nonsense……battery drain…..everything was 🤬 fine Apple, then even tried calling you today and more 🤬 already have unfinished PTSD with you and your after un-care service I will at some point write about and publish!