iPhone 13 mini iPhone mini slowness with iOS 18

[1rottenapple]

Any iPhone 13 mini experiencing a lot of performance issues. My phone keeps freezing! Been pretty annoying to be honest.

 

[whrage]

Yeah I have the same issue with 13 mini. Yesterday I wanted to check my Mail then went to take a photo and the Camera app froze, I wanted to go back to Mail app but nothing worked, even hard reset of the phone did not function, so I waited like 2 minutes and the Camera app closed itself and could check the Mail app again. I don't know if it's the lack of RAM or iOS 18 is simply buggy.

 

[Reverend Benny]

Any iPhone 13 mini experiencing a lot of performance issues. My phone keeps freezing! Been pretty annoying to be honest.

Which iOS version more exactly?

 

[whrage]

Which iOS version more exactly?

Mine is 18.1 btw.

 

[Reverend Benny]

Yeah I have the same issue with 13 mini. Yesterday I wanted to check my Mail then went to take a photo and the Camera app froze, I wanted to go back to Mail app but nothing worked, even hard reset of the phone did not function, so I waited like 2 minutes and the Camera app closed itself and could check the Mail app again. I don't know if it's the lack of RAM or iOS 18 is simply buggy.

I have a handful of regular 13 (not mini) running iOS 18.1 at work and haven't had any reports on these issues. I have a lab-phone that is running the same version but haven't used it much and not the apps you mention (camera and mail).
But since its the same HW I don't think its related to RAM. But then again, it could be anything I guess.
Try and do a manual update of apps, might help the issue. Otherwise i'd guess well see a 18.1.1 fairly soon.

 

[1rottenapple]

This was 18.1

 

[deevey]

Yeah I have the same issue with 13 mini. Yesterday I wanted to check my Mail then went to take a photo and the Camera app froze, I wanted to go back to Mail app but nothing worked, even hard reset of the phone did not function, so I waited like 2 minutes and the Camera app closed itself and could check the Mail app again. I don't know if it's the lack of RAM or iOS 18 is simply buggy.

My iPhone 12 mini, and wife's 15 pro both have had camera freezing issues recently since iOS 18. Downloading 18.1 to see if this resolves the problem.

 

[thadoggfather]

18.0 has been great on 13 mini. I guess I won’t be updating out of paranoia

 

[Scarrus]

I wonder if it’s a RAM issue. My 14 Plus runs like a champ while my 12 & 13 minis see quite a bit more lag and generally feel a bit aluggish in comparison. Switching to the empji Keyboard for example sometimes takes half a second or so where as on the 14 it’s instantaneous.

All devices are on iOS 18.1

 

[xxFoxtail]

I wonder if it’s a RAM issue. My 14 Plus runs like a champ while my 12 & 13 minis see quite a bit more lag and generally feel a bit aluggish in comparison. Switching to the empji Keyboard for example sometimes takes half a second or so where as on the 14 it’s instantaneous.

All devices are on iOS 18.1

I'm not sure. My 14 Pro is struggling a bit more on 18.x than it did before. Some things are noticeably faster, others seem to make the system stutter just doing random things. It's not at a point where I'm upset about the performance, but it's just not the same old buttery smooth iPhone it used to be. Battery health is at 82%, so I don’t believe iOS is holding back performance just yet.