on screen keybord sluggish with vo

By Troy, 2 October, 2025

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IOS 26.01, also happened in ios26 where the keybord is sluggish while typing. Anyone else having this issue? I have an IPhone 16 and using eliquence.

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By al-Salil on Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 09:30

Or I believe I do experience this.
I feel the on screen keyboard is a bit sluggish since upgrading to iOS 26.
I'm currently running iOS 26.0.1 on an iPhone 14.
I've turned off audio ducking completely and I think it's a bit better actually.
I'm still experimenting with this though.
I usually have VO audio ducking set to while VO speaks but now I switching between off and while speaking to figure out if that helps.

By AppleFan01 on Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 10:53

Present for me on iPhone 13

By Ekaj on Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 12:21

I'm also on an iPhone 14, and currently using Samantha Enhanced. I've not experienced any sluggishness with the on-screen keyboard. Furthermore, I was using my HumanWare eReader yesterday a bit and found that the on-screen keyboard was turned off in the Braille settings. It is currently turned on, but I will turn it back off and see what happens. I had a slight issue with the on-screen keyboard before upgrading, so perhaps Apple fixed this at least for some of us. It's interesting how these issues crop up for some users but not others.

By AbleTec on Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 14:48

Absolutely. I'm using an IPhone SE 2nd gen. It's utterly pathetic! I wish I'd never updated, but they'd have forced the issue at some point anyway. Indeed, it appears my Cox Panoramic app no longer works, which kinda makes it hard, since I'm the family sysadmin, & now I can't control devices, etc. I didn't complain about the sluggishness since I fully understand my hardware is pretty dated, but it appears I'm not the only 1 experiencing this. & yes, I did restart my phone. & I waited till the .01 update. BLAH! Truthfully, I think I began noticing this w/ the 18.71 update as well, though not nearly as profoundly as in 26.01.

By Holger Fiallo on Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 15:02

Whenever I send a message and ype. Also VO sometimes does not read the letter after typing. Is it me or iOS 26 made VO worse. There are more bugs about VO than a NY city hotel.

By OldBear on Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 18:03

What I here is VO clipping off most of the spoken letter after typing, but not all the time. It's just a tiny bit of the beginning of the letter that sounds when it happens.

By Holger Fiallo on Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 18:14

There you go. Perfect. That is what happens to me.

By Troy on Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 20:28

I've had the issue with letters and numbers not always speaking when I put my finger on them prior to ios26 mainly happening on the lock screen when I'm unlocking my phone.