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Search not working across my iPhone (iOS13.3)

I’m having major issues with the search on my device. It’s super weird as it’s happening across different search functions on my device. I’ve been experiencing this issue for a month or 2 now.


The 3 examples of when I’ve been experienced this:


  1. My spotlight search doesn’t work most of the time. When I search nothing happens.
  2. My notes search NEVER works. I search and just get empty results. (Really annoying as I have 2000 or so notes)
  3. My search in settings also NEVER works.


I experienced this on my iPhone X and then my iPhone 11 Pro Max that I restored from the same backup

iPhone 11 Pro Max

Posted on Jan 18, 2020 4:33 PM

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Posted on Jan 29, 2020 12:01 PM

I finally got my phone working again, as far as search etc by first updating to the latest os version. Then doing several steps sometimes a few times which were as follows.


reseting my language preference in settings from us to canadian english and back and forth couple times


second by asking for all my siri data to be removed from apple servers again through settings


then i did a hard reset of my location and language settings under settings-general-reset


and finally rebooted.


it annoyingly did not seem to have worked at all last night but this morning i finally after weeks woke up to a phone that could handle search etc again.


Sorry i don’t know specifically what did the trick, but may at least help?

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Jan 29, 2020 12:01 PM in response to rblue36

I finally got my phone working again, as far as search etc by first updating to the latest os version. Then doing several steps sometimes a few times which were as follows.


reseting my language preference in settings from us to canadian english and back and forth couple times


second by asking for all my siri data to be removed from apple servers again through settings


then i did a hard reset of my location and language settings under settings-general-reset


and finally rebooted.


it annoyingly did not seem to have worked at all last night but this morning i finally after weeks woke up to a phone that could handle search etc again.


Sorry i don’t know specifically what did the trick, but may at least help?

Search not working across my iPhone (iOS13.3)

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