Search bar missing

I spent 90 minutes on the phone with Apple support last night. I restored my iPad 6th gen to factory settings then restored from backup and still no search bar either by swiping down at the middle down or from newsfeed on the left side of the screen. The Apple advisor could not find any other reference to this problem in his database. After he connected to my iPad and we did a lot of troubleshooting he could not find a solution and escalated the matter. He’s going to bring it to the attention of the engineers and call me back on Saturday with an update.