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Furthermore, lead vocalist Bono suffered what he referred to as a 'brush with mortality' shortly after Christmas 2016, further affecting the direction of Songs of Experience. The group also committed to a 2017 concert tour to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their album The Joshua Tree. Due to the shift of global politics in a conservative direction, highlighted by the United Kingdom's Brexit referendum and the 2016 US presidential election, the band decided to delay Songs of Experience from its planned release in the fourth quarter of 2016 to reassess its tone and whether it was still communicating what they wanted it to. Several other factors contributed to a delay. It is still alive in our minds creatively.' But we like that tour and that project wasn't completed. I would imagine it's gonna be with very similar production components. So right now, we'd love to finish that tour.

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Bassist Adam Clayton said, 'By the time we finished the Innocence tour and came full circle to focus on the album, it was clear we weren't going to be able to flip it really quickly into the Experience side of the material and put it right back out on tour.' When asked in 2017 about plans to continue the Innocence + Experience Tour, guitarist the Edge said, 'We feel like that tour wasn't finished. However, slow progress on the Experience record delayed the second tour. The group originally began it with the intent to tour in two phases, one with material primarily taken from Songs of Innocence and one with material that would eventually be from its follow-up, the companion album Songs of Experience.

In 2014, U2 released their thirteenth studio album, Songs of Innocence, which they supported with the Innocence + Experience Tour in 2015. The Experience + Innocence Tour received positive reviews and grossed $126.2 million from 923,733 tickets sold. The tour made use of Ticketmaster's 'Verified Fan' platform in an attempt to combat ticket scalping, making U2 the first group to do so for an arena tour. Ticket purchases for the Experience + Innocence Tour included copies of Songs of Experience, helping the album reach number one on the US Billboard 200. Having toured in 2017 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree, the band decided not to perform any songs from that record on the Experience + Innocence Tour, leaving out some of their most well-known tracks. During the Experience + Innocence Tour, the group performed their oft-requested 1991 song ' Acrobat' for the first time in their career, and they focused setlists on their Songs of Experience and Innocence albums.

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The band incorporated augmented reality into the tour, building it into a mobile app for fans to use, as well as using it to revive lead vocalist Bono's demonic stage character ' MacPhisto' from the Zoo TV Tour in 1993. Several enhancements were made to the set, such as a higher resolution and more transparent video screen and the addition of LED panels to the B-stage floor. The 2018 tour reprised the loose autobiographical narrative from the 2015 tour, along with the original's multifaceted stage comprising a rectangular main stage, circular B-stage, connecting walkway, and doubled-sided LED video screen with an interior walkway. The tour followed U2's 2015 Innocence + Experience Tour as the second in a pair of tours in support of the group's companion albums, Songs of Innocence (2014) and Songs of Experience. It began on in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and ended on 13 November 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Comprising two legs and 60 concerts, the Experience + Innocence Tour visited North America from May through July, and Europe from August through November.

Staged in support of the band's 2017 album, Songs of Experience, the tour visited arenas throughout 2018. The Experience + Innocence Tour (styled as eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour) was a worldwide concert tour by rock band U2.

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