iPhone 14 Pro to iOS 26.1

[NerdNinja90]

Hello,

Last night, I updated my iPhone 14 Pro to iOS 26.1. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of liquid glass but that's a whole different topic. However, I did notice there are lag performance issues time to time, and the device does tend to get overheated. Now, what I am wondering is if this is due to indexing and it will sort itself out in a couple of days, or just a major mistake on my end from updating iOS 18 to iOS 26.1 as the A16 Bionic CPU is not capable of handling Liquid Glass as smooth as compared to the newest and latest iPhone releases.

Pretty sad to see the difference between iOS 18 and iOS 26 on iPhone 14 Pro in regards to performance, heating, and bug issues.

What are your thoughts?

 

[parajba]

I have a 14PM and am still on 18.7.1. Let me know if it stabilises. My phone is simply perfect currently, battery, performance and functionality, I would hate to lose all that for a new OS. I will hold off as much as I can.

 

[AudiHeel]

I have a 13P and upgraded last night. It seems a bit laggy on some things. Honestly, I wish I had stayed on 18. All this liquid glass blows.

 

[kitKAC]

My 14 Pro is on 26.1 (orginally I had updated to 26). Performance is generally fine but when it goes into Low Power mode things get a little choppy. Give it a few days to sort itself out.

 

[mtrm]

I have a 13P and upgraded last night. It seems a bit laggy on some things. Honestly, I wish I had stayed on 18. All this liquid glass blows.

If you upgraded last night, you gotta give it a couple days to finish running indexing and background stuff. I upgraded my 13 PM a week or two after 26.0 came out and the performance was as you described. After it stabilised it got better, and 26.1 appears to have further ironed a few more bugs out.

 

[JohnLuke]

For the overheating you have to give him a few days to finish the indexing. I have the 14 Pro and I updated to iOS 26 when it came out, on mine I never noticed overheating, nor a particular slowness, the only complaint was the messaging app that had some lags and a bit of a delay but since yesterday I'm on iOS 26.1 and it's much more responsive, I only notice lags sometimes when scrolling the homepage but I read that the new iPhones on 26.1 also do it, you just have to wait for iOS to be updated again. In my experience in some things it feels faster than iOS 18, give it time.

 

[papbot]

I have a 14PM and am still on 18.7.1. Let me know if it stabilises. My phone is simply perfect currently, battery, performance and functionality, I would hate to lose all that for a new OS. I will hold off as much as I can.

For context, I have the new 17 Pro Max phone and the new M5 13” iPad Pro. Even though visually iOS 26 appeals to me, functionally it’s a bit of a mess. More so on the iPad than the phone. But if I could, I would go back to iOS 18. A much better experience overall. I’ve not had any overheating but I do have latest devices. Unless you have a specific reason to move to 26, I’d stay right where you are for now, and just follow along until you see more positive posts. I never put betas on my phones anymore so the 17’s experience is with the current releases and it’s not the best. I do have the betas on my iPad, 26.2 currently, and it fixed none of the issues I have. 26.1 made things worse, so I’m waiting for 26.5 or maybe iOS 27 to see some improvements.

 

[boswald]

I have a 14 PM on 26.1 and everything seems to be fine except swiping from the widget screen back to the home screen. Everywhere else seems to be smooth.

 

[papbot]

I have a 14 PM on 26.1 and everything seems to be fine except swiping from the widget screen back to the home screen. Everywhere else seems to be smooth.

Yep, if you had no widgets or folders, everything would be very smooth.

 

[kevintech]

I'm on a 14P and iOS 26.1 is much better for me than previous versions. I'm sure newer devices will run it more smoothly but the new features on 26 are worth it some of the UI lag (which isn't too frequent). My 2 cents.