Ever since I purchased my iPhone and installed the iOS update 5.0.1 shortly after, I’ve noticed some lag. This was really surprising to me due to the fact that when I first bought the phone it had zero lag at all – pretty much null. The other thing is, is the fact that everyone stated that the iPhone was always pretty much lag free and was the best phone they have ever used in their life.

I ended up finding the problem to what was happening that was making the phone lag once iOS 5.0.1 was installed. Come to find out it was a really obvious and simple issue. The issue was iCloud, at least for myself. I never really have given it a thought that all this syncing of data would be slowing my phone down tremendously.

I then took the step of turning off some features that I find pretty useless that we’re never put to use in my behalf. Those features were the document and data storage along with the bookmark storage. Once these were turned off I have about zero lag with the keyboard when texting a message to someone and zero lag when typing something into Safari.

I think this is a sort of “bug” that is evident to apple and I’m sure they will be trying to fix it next iOS update that is launched, at least let’s hope and keep out fingers crossed.

Take the test. Does turning off some of the iCloud features help your phone free up? Or is it still acting it’s same sluggish self? Let me know what you think!