Either Apple's search is awful or I'm messing up?

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Either Apple's search is awful or I'm messing up?

This problem has been consistent from the iPhone 6 through the XR and the intervening OS's.

I periodically request an email from our library system that lists a brief of each book in my reading history. I use the list to confirm I haven't read a book before checking one out if I'm not sure I hadn't previously done so.

It's no problem for me to open the email in MS Outlook and use the email form's search function.

However, if I open the email on the phone, flick down to expose the search box, regardless of what I enter the iOS search has NEVER returned the search word despite being confirmed that the word is present using OL.

The library email lives in its own folder \Inbox\Filed\Library.

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Mark

iPhone XR, 12

Posted on Feb 16, 2019 5:12 AM

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Feb 16, 2019 5:07 PM in response to Markg2

I'm not seeing an ability to edit my initial post--hence, this correction reply to my post.

Correction. I didn't open the library email to attempt a search since search is not available in an open email. I flicked down to expose the search box in the folder that contained the single email. I restricted the search to the current folder. That process is the one that results consistently in 'Find' never finding the search word.

Mark

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Either Apple's search is awful or I'm messing up?

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