Search bar missing on iPhone

As a lot of people hate the App Library putting it at the end is a blessing.

Also, if you put your finger on the row of dots under the icons you can slide it for quick access to the pages of your Home screen

Thanks Chris. This workaround helped. Slight changes though. On swiping right on the Lock Screen, my search bar was empty. Just clicked cancel anyways and the blur screen was fixed.

If I may ask , how did you come up with this fix ?

Has Apple responded with a fix? It’s driving me crazy.

I have the same issue. Until Apple comes up with a fix, I'm scrolling to the right and to search what I can on the App Library screen. Very annoying.

Just swipe up to see your Control Panel and you will find your Code Scanner there

Fix what? There’s nothing broken. If i swipe down from the middle of the screen, as I have always done, the Search screen appears. iOS 14 just adds 2 additional ways to reach Search, it didn’t remove any.

Fix the fact that it is broken for some of us. If o swipe down it’s just the blurry screen. No option to search. If I swipe al the way to side where search is and then click on it, again just blurry screen. No option to search. Reboot fixes it for maybe a day and it goes back to not working.

If o swipe down it’s just the blurry screen. No option to search. If I swipe al the way to side where search is and then click on it, again just blurry screen. No option to search.

+1 same problem here on iPhone 8, iOS 14.2

It is “broken”...maybe not for you but for other people...it is. I use this feature to get to just about every app and it is VERY inconvenient. The swipe down search bar also kept about 8 apps that I use or search most frequently right there under the search bar.

swiping to get the the “left” search bar also gives me the same blurry screen once I tap the search bar...so this is a major issue for me. I have two search bars not working. This needs to be fixed.

i have the same problem and it makes the functionality of my phone for anything not on my Home Screen practically unusable. What used to take 2 seconds now takes 1-2 minutes of scrolling and locating the correct app.

Mine is still having this problem Apple has really outdone itself and lameness again very sad that it has tanked so badly. I can’t delete from my iPad using the delete key in my mail anymore which is quite a pain and now I can’t search on this particular iPhone by swiping down I can still do it on my 6+ which often times I use more often because this one is really a downgrade from the 6S plus very sad.

Well, I think the issue is that some people are having a problem with the search feature not working as it is supposed to. When someone comes to this forum, they are having a problem and looking for a way to fix it.

Just because you are not experiencing the same problem doesn’t mean there is nothing to fix.

It’s fortunate for you that you have no problem with this feature, but let’s not operate here with the assumption that your experience is the only one. Because, as is obvious here, multiple people have come searching for a solution. Now I’m here months after the discussion started because I just started having this problem.

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My phone is updated. I don’t know what you mean by not launching the search function correctly because there are only the ways given to users by the program. As for me, I didn’t change anything about how I accessed the function front before the problem to after. Are you implying that I broke the phone, or that iOS requires specific learning? Those are silly thoughts that I’m sure you didn’t mean to imply.

And as for the original problem, someone else in this discussion posted an actual solution that worked for, other than user error or restarting the phone in hopes that will solves it.

Thanks for the input anyway!

Hello ATHahn,

No, there is not a way to pin my response.

Only the person who posted the question can mark a response solved.

Apple can also come along and mark a response Apple Recommended, but none of us users have any control of that.. and if they were going to, they most likely would have done so already.

If my suggestion worked for you, I'm certainly glad to hear it!

Hi Chris0107,

Too bad because your fix was much more corrective than just restarting the phone. Did you figure out what triggered the strange behavior? I’d like to know so I understood what I did wrong and how to avoid it in the future.

Thank you and in good health,

A