philippp

Q: Bug: iOS 6 spotlight-search in calendar is case-sensitive

When I search in my iOS calendar (iCloud), the search appears to be case-sensitive!

I would say this is clearly a bug, 1) because it is obviously contra-productive, and 2) because http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3636 clearly states the opposite.

 

Can anybody confirm this?

 

Updated to iOS 6.0.1, no difference.

 

Philipp

Posted on Nov 3, 2012 4:44 PM

Close

Q: Bug: iOS 6 spotlight-search in calendar is case-sensitive

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers

  • by sberman,

    sberman sberman Nov 3, 2012 5:16 PM in response to philippp
    Level 8 (40,235 points)
    Nov 3, 2012 5:16 PM in response to philippp

    From the article you cited:

     

    1. Try searching using the first few characters of the words you are trying to find.

    2.  Spotlight is not case sensitive, so you can search using uppercase or lowercase letters and get the same results.
    Note: Words without a space between them will be counted as separate words if each word starts with an uppercase letter. For example: Searching for "two" will be successful in "OneTwoThree", but not in "onetwothree".

    So, in that last example, if you search for "wo", you will find nothing per #1.

    Hope this helps.

  • by philippp,

    philippp philippp Nov 3, 2012 5:37 PM in response to sberman
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Nov 3, 2012 5:37 PM in response to sberman

    sberman, thanks, you seem to misunderstand me - I have read the artilce I cited, and my device behaves differently:

     

    I have a calendar entry that starts with the word LaTeX.

    During I type in the search field, as far as I type "La", spotlight shows that entry.

    When I reach "Lat", the entry vanishes from the result.

    Instead, when I type "LaT", the entry is there.

     

    I was asking whether someone can confirm this, or whether I am the only one experiencing this bug.

     

    Philipp

  • by philippp,

    philippp philippp Nov 7, 2012 1:40 AM in response to philippp
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Nov 7, 2012 1:40 AM in response to philippp

    Update — I found some more details:

    Spotlight only seems to be case sensitive for words in CamelCase.

     

    So, if I have an entry "Latex" it is found by searching for "latex".

    In contrast, if my entry is "LaTeX", it is not found.

     

    The same holds for "Taebo" vs "TaeBo".

     

    Since Latex is something completely different from LaTeX, I refuse to change my calendar entry to Latex, and still think this looks like a bug (or it was a considered tradeoff for performance reasons??.

     

    Am I the only one experiencing this?

     

    Philipp

  • by adamrhea,Helpful

    adamrhea adamrhea Aug 8, 2013 3:12 PM in response to philippp
    Level 1 (5 points)
    Aug 8, 2013 3:12 PM in response to philippp

    No, I am having the exact same issue as you Philipp, and it's really ticking me off.   I just looked up in my calendar to see when my next meeting with a certain client was and the calendar didn't have any hits for the client name.  I thought that I must have uncharacteristically failed to enter a meeting date and pulled my paperwork on it and prepared to make the entry on the calendar, only to discover it was already there, but hadn't shown up as a search result.  I tried it again in the search, using only lowercase as I've always done in the calendar search box with positive results even when the calendar entry was capitalized, and it failed to show as a result again even with my calendar opened to that page.  As soon as I would modify the search to capitalized first letters, it would show as a result.  Now I can't trust my calendar search box, which is just effing GREAT.  I use this ipad for work and I don't want to be stressed out with trying to maintain uniformly perfect or uniformly imperfect capitalization in calendar entries and searches in order to be confident in search results.  Thanks for the update, Apple.  It wasn't broke, but you fixed it so it is.

  • by philippp,

    philippp philippp Aug 8, 2013 11:44 PM in response to adamrhea
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Aug 8, 2013 11:44 PM in response to adamrhea

    Thank you, adam — it is good to know I am not alone :-)

     

    Wonder whether there is a chance that iOS 7 will fix this...