iPhone 15 keeps having lag spikes, stuttering and won’t stop

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I’m not a dumbass, I obviously restarted my phone (multiple times), shut it off and left it for a bit and do whatever I can to keep my battery health high. My battery health is 98%. I’ve had this phone for only 8 months and the lagging showed up around mid July. My storage is around half full and the lag happens no matter what the battery is at, even if it’s 80% it still happens. I’m on the latest version of iOS

What do I do? Nothing online is helping me

This happens with system animations too, like swiping on the home screen, opening and closing apps

[scenic finch]

That’s very odd. Do you have any apps using significant power in the background?

Check your battery settings to see

[soft dagger]

Background app refresh is off for most apps

But I’ll also go to battery

[scenic finch]

Alrighty

[celest pivot]

You might have have to reinstall IOS could be a software glitch

[soft dagger]

It’s normal

[scenic finch]

I see.

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The screen time is a glitch 😭🙏

[scenic finch]

Oh gotcha

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I’m not that chronically online

But also like using the keyboard is stuttery

[scenic finch]

You should probably try what Sam had mentioned. Reinstalling iOS.

It’s a longer process but it may help out

If not I’d have it checked by Apple

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I don’t have a PC so I can’t backup my stuff

[cinder gale]

Use iCloud

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The 5GB of iCloud storage is weak

One photo will fill it up 💀

[cinder gale]

Even i have it ik what youre talking abt

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It’s full for me

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Sme 💀

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I have my iPhone 11 running iOS 18 PB4 so idk if it’s fine if I transfer my iPhone 15’s data to the iPhone 11 then I reset the 15 then put the data back

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You cannot

[scenic finch]

The backup you restore from can't be from iOS 18 beta

it has to be from iOS 17

[cinder gale]

Reset the 11 to 17 then do the transfer

[soft dagger]

Don’t you need a PC to bring it back to iOS 17?

I don’t have a pc anymore

[scenic finch]

Yeah

That could be a problem

[cinder gale]

Can he use the apple store macs?

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Wait fuck, my iPhone 11 has only 64GB and my iPhone 15’s storage is 64gb full

[scenic finch]

No

[cinder gale]

You cannot get icloud storage at all?

[scenic finch]

You could ask Support if they'd allow you to do that

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For me its only 99c for 50gb

[scenic finch]

Maybe they can have a specialist let you use their Mac to restore

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I’m only 16 💀 I don’t wanna ask my parents

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It’s $2 in Canada

I have money in my ICloud account, I might have to go with that

[scenic finch]

Understandable

[soft dagger]

But I don’t have the money to keep paying

[cinder gale]

Buy it for a month or 2 if you can then back up then restore then cancel your subscription

[celest pivot]

Download Google photos
Download one drive and Google drive

Store all your photos to Google photos

Store all your files in one drive or Google drive

If that’s not enough use terabox or telebox it’s got enough storage for you

[scenic finch]

Oh true, I forget about Google Photos

[celest pivot]

That’s good then

[scenic finch]

The only issue is if the photos they have will exceed 15GB

For Google

[celest pivot]

Yeahh that’s why I recommended telebox or terabox
They offer free terabytes of space

[scenic finch]

Oh cool, never heard of them

[soft dagger]

I’ll have to try that

[cinder gale]

Idk if you can download all of your photos and files from terabox or google photos

[scenic finch]

Sam would know

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I don’t like TeraBox, I have it but it’s just corrupted with ads and unusable

I have Google Photos tho

[scenic finch]

Then you can try using that then

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I would have to figure out how to make it my primary photos app

If that’s possible

[cinder gale]

I recommended icloud bcs on iphone settings you can download and keep all originals if youd wish

[scenic finch]

Looked it up, doesn't look like there is way

to make it a default photos app

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What happens if I exceed 5GB and the 50gb plan ends?

[scenic finch]

It starts to eat into your physical storage

[cinder gale]

I think they give you a 30 day period to download or what jared said

[celest pivot]

You can
You just need to select all your photos and then upload to terabox
Download terabox you’d see

[celest pivot]

Ohh hahaha

Just use any good cloud storage for the main time buddy
You wouldn’t be needing it forever
You’d only need for a couple of hours
Not forever though

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The lag is getting worse 😭

I have to backup

Opening apps is so stuttery

Even unlocking my phone

ALL animations are getting lag

[scenic finch]

Alright. Probably gonna have to reinstall the OS

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I have to wait a few days but I have to at this point

It’s imperative

[scenic finch]

Hopefully that fixes it for you

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Even the display iPhone 13s at Walmart performed better than my 15

[scenic finch]

Something is up then

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It also did better than the display iPhone 15s

So idk what’s going on with the 15 Series

[scenic finch]

Very odd

Give the reinstall a go then and see how it goes

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Reinstalling is erasing my phone?

Or do I need a PC to do it

[scenic finch]

To reinstall you’d need a PC

Or Mac

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I don’t have one

Windows fucking deleted itself

[scenic finch]

Next best option would be erasing and then resetting it up then

[scenic finch]

Oh

[soft dagger]

How likely is that to fix my phone?

It’s just erasing the content

I have to go to Apple

Fuck

Idk how I’m gonna do that

[scenic finch]

You can erase it at home

Just have a backup

Before you do it

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I know but I think I have to reinstall it, I think that will fix it

I doubt erasing will do anything

[scenic finch]

Oh ok.

If you know any family member with a computer you could use that too

That’s up to you though

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They dismissed everything I said

So idk what to do

They told me to restore and said I either pay or I can’t get help

I don’t have money for a new phone and I’m not getting my parents to get my another one so idk what I can do anymore

[celest pivot]

sorry to hear that, thats bad,
have you considered restoring it?

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That’s all I can do

My fucking back glass isn’t flush with the frame and they said it’s no issue 💀

[celest pivot]

apparently yeah!!

[celest pivot]

smh

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And my front screen’s corners are popping out a bit

But I had my case on the whole day

So it became flush again

So they thought I was lying

[celest pivot]

needs some serious repairs

[soft dagger]

There’s a fucking gap on the top of the back glass

No issue

I fucking hate this company

We can’t just get a new phone and they obviously don’t care about my situation

[celest pivot]

sorry about that bud,

[scenic finch]

Dang, that sucks

I'm sorry to hear about that, not much we can do now

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I was told that restoring at home won’t do anything

[scenic finch]

It's worth a shot

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So I don’t know what the fuck to do

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They said it won’t do anything

I fucking hate this company

I have no options left either

[scenic finch]

I'd still try it anyways, you never know. Things may start working.

The phone is too new to have a issue like that

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My screen corners are fucking popping out bro that shi’s serious 😭

The case held it down so it wasn’t noticeable

I’ll probably try but I have 0 faith that it will work

[scenic finch]

Wait, it’s popping out?

Is your battery expanded?

If that’s the case that could change the whole case here

@soft dagger

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No

The screen’s corners are lifting

When I don’t have a case on

[scenic finch]

Did you drop it a lot?

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The case keeps it down for a bit

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No

[scenic finch]

that shouldn’t be popping out

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I noticed it as early as 2 weeks of having it

[scenic finch]

Usually, when that occurs the batteries, usually swelling

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It’s only the corners

It’s ever so slightly that it’s hard to notice

[scenic finch]

Still. That could be a bad indication. When people screens have popped out, that’s usually what’s happened. What you think @celest pivot ?

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But even then my phone case makes it back to normal and leaving a case off makes it lush out again

[scenic finch]

I see

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I can’t fucking do anything because these guys don’t care

They’re probably waiting for my warranty to finish and then they’ll take care of it so I can pay for everything

[scenic finch]

If the phone still within warranty, they should’ve covered that. Especially if there isn’t external damage

[soft dagger]

It is and they’re refusing to help me

So idk what to do

We’re paying 1200 for this shi and this happens

[scenic finch]

If you had another Apple Store nearby, I would’ve gone to them.

They should be able to cover issues like that

If they had occurred two weeks with having the phone, I would’ve had that checked and changed

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We went to a mall today which is why I could

I’m 16 so I’m not free to just go wherever

[scenic finch]

Gotcha

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My parents will blame this on me

So I’m not telling their ignorant ahh’s anything

[scenic finch]

If you wanted it fixed, that may be the only option.

I understand that may not be in your best interests though

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I think they’re aware that my old phone was ruined because of the repair shop

But even then they’ll ignore that

Having 2 phones in a row with issues is crazy fortune

[scenic finch]

Yeah, very unfortunate

[soft dagger]

They believe luck but this is happening so they suddenly will forget the meaning of luck and what it is

[scenic finch]

I see

Well, there isn’t much I can do for my end. I would strongly recommend getting that checked someway or another because that could be the battery. Battery swelling can be dangerous as you don’t want it to catch on fire.

That could be the cause of your issues

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I’ll have to go to another mall sometimes

But my battery is fine

98% capacity rn

I take care of it

I lost 2% in the same week because I was being mindless

[scenic finch]

The capacity could be fine, but the battery may not be. It could have been defective. Though, it’s hard to tell without a picture. Just basing it off of the description. So it may not be your fault at all.

Or the phone wasn’t properly seal at the factory

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The mall I went to has terrible Apple service

I hope I can go to the other mall close to that one, I heard from my friends that the service is better there

[scenic finch]

Alrighty, hope all goes well.

[celest pivot]

Most likely yeah and unfortunately Apple didn’t want to fix it and that’s sad

[soft dagger]

I went again today and I asked them to restore my phone

They did through DFU and they did a full system restore

They told me to keep the clean slate for a few days and see if we can notice any lag so I didn’t use my backup and there’s still lag

After a full system restore and not using my backup, there’s still lag

Well it’s more stutter right now

But I’m concerned

[scenic finch]

Maybe it’s a hardware issue then

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The problem is that the diagnostics I took showed no issue, there was two of them although I never got the results of the second test

[scenic finch]

Yeah

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Oh

Weird

[soft dagger]

Confirm for me, can you guys see lag?

[scenic finch]

Yeah I can see it

@soft dagger

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It’s a lot laggier when I’m send it through Discord

The frame rate is lower through discord but it’s normal on the native Photos app but I personally see lag

[scenic finch]

Gotcha

[cinder gale]

If theres an option reinstall your os or send it to apple

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We did that yesterday

We re installed iOS

[weary notch]

Did u try it without installing stuff like Reddit or anything else
Ik this is a dumb question but just making sure

[soft dagger]

Ye

I had the clean state iOS for a couple of hours and there was some sitter

Stutter

My cousin’s 15 Plus looks like 120Hz compared to my base model 15 😭🔥

[weary notch]

Wait so it didn’t stutter for a couple hrs, or u didn’t install apps for a couple hrs

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I didn’t have apps for a couple of hours

It slightly stuttered

[weary notch]

Rly… maybe something like the processor is like running at low speed, so installing apps makes it worse

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Idk bro 😭

Even Apple is appalled

Engineering is looking at my case as we speak

[weary notch]

Hmm
Did u try turning literally everything off like low power mode, WiFi, cellular, Bluetooth, stuff like that?

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My battery health is 98% and it lags at like 80%

I don’t think any of those change anything

Also they literally don’t

[weary notch]

Weird
I would probably wait on apple, could be a battery thing if the battery effects it

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There’s stutter at any percentage so idk if it’s a battery issue, they have no idea either

[weary notch]

Oh

Well neither do I lol
I would wait for apple

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The engineering team is looking at the screen recordings I had to send

I was with customer service and they asked to do a screenshare and she didn’t see the lag through the screen recordings I was showing her

We all confused 🥶

[weary notch]

Ok maybe a rendering issue of some sort that’s my wild theory

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We’ll figure out

That could be the issue, but if it is, what would they do? Is that even fixable

[weary notch]

Idk
I have absolutely no experience in this at all but in my opinion it could either be a screen replacement or a firmware reinstall (if that’s possible) but don’t take my advice seriously

[soft dagger]

We did a firmware reinstall and some of the lag is already visible through screen recording