Infuriating ios26.1 has rendered bith my iPhones functionally useless

ios26.1

Anyone else finding their phone functionality useless after the ios26.1 update?

form filling boxes greyed out so you cannot see what you are writing PLUS you cannot move the curser to a misspelled word ( after you press the tick in the huge new banner that takes up extra screen room)


and

Any drop down menu like Traveline- you type the place name but cannot choose from the drop down menu or even worse- that banner is blocking the place you want to click in.

have reduced type size bit any smaller and I cannot read it

Infuriated

and both my iphone act like this , have factory reset one phone and yes I turned off the ‘screen transparency!

Posted on Dec 4, 2025 11:17 AM

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Dec 4, 2025 1:24 PM in response to Bornjoyful

Nope, no such problems.


Perhaps a long shot:


Do you have a 3rd party VPN installed, even if you are not using it? If so, delete the VPN profile in Settings/General/VPN & Device Management/VPN, then restart your device. Don't just turn it off; delete the profile. Updates sometimes need to have VPN to be removed and reinstalled. If that fixes it, you can try reinstalling VPN, but probably shouldn't.

Infuriating ios26.1 has rendered bith my iPhones functionally useless

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