“Find on page” not working since IOS 16 update

Following up with more info…

I had installed Adobe Acrobat. It installed a plug-in that attached to the (Preview or Files?) app. 

But I could not access the free version (was presented with the option to enroll in paid version only with no obvious way to bypass or close that window - so I quit the Acrobat app & deleted it.) That plugin is still identified in the header of the pdf page alongside the search magnifier button. I don’t know if it is involved in the problem.

I’m also having this issue on an iPhone SE 2022 and it’s been occurring since before ios16. I’ll try to find a word on a page in Safari, it might show “(on this page) 5 matches” but when I try to parse through the results by tapping “find” the dialog box closes and doesn’t show me the results.

No, Ashar, it's not that complicated. A website is opened with Safari. A word or phrase is entered into the search bar. "On this page" gives the number of occurrences. The user should click "Find xxx." But Safari reverts to the website without finding any occurances, and apparently not even searching the page.

What they are saying is:

When searching for a word in the search bar, you type in the word you are looking for while on a web page in the search bar, after you type it in, you scroll to the bottom and it will say something like “on this page (11 times)”, you click on that and it doesn’t find the word and more. It used to highlight every time on a web page that that word you used is.

This is and has been happening for the past few iOS updates to me as well on my iPhone 14 Pro Max on web pages. What’s up Apple? There should be enough people having this same issue for you to address this!

It’s literally stressing me out to the point that I have to use my sons iPad that hasn’t been updated to the latest iOS software 😅

This is a very big issue, so I want to need more information. please more explain.

Not true. I cannot search web pages in the Safari browser. The Find on Page drop-down no longer allows me to enter text

I clear cookies on a regular basis. Makes no difference.

That didn’t do a thing…even after clearing history/website data/cookies and restarting my iPad

This changes nothing… find on page is still non-functional.

CMND-F isn’t an option on ios

It is on my iPad (searching web pages in Safari).

have readable byte on. It has changed nothing.

Can you please provide a definitive solution to the problem. Find on page is like the control+f on iPhone. Normally it always worked but it’s not working now.

can apple fix the problem.