Pull down search not working on iPhone

Same is happening to me… it’s beeen two months since my search bar isn’t working. Anytime I search for an App I have installed, it doesn’t appear

We are telling you when we tap the search oval it doesn’t work. We can get to the pull down screen with the search oval. Sometimes the keyboard won’t appear, and sometimes when we type in a work to search nothing happens. The issue isn’t getting to that function, the function itself is not working. I posted an example image. I typed Facebook and Facebook is not appearing even though I have the app. This happens all the time. Most of the time, the keyboard won’t appear.

This same exact issue started with my iPhone about a month or two ago. Have you found a solution yet? It is very frustrating for sure. I search for PayPal for example and I have it as an APP on my iPhone but nothing comes up.

I'm also noticing the same issue now with my text messages. When I search for a name from the search bar in texts the most recent text with that person's name would come up and now my search bar for texts don't turn up any useful hits/ information.

Mine works 90% of the time, but 10% of the time is enough to be very frustrating. Especially since it seems to be yet another known issue that Apple isn’t going to do anything about or communicate with their customers about.

This helped my issue

Settings > Siri & Search > turn on show suggestions and turn on show recents

Looks like lots of people have this problem, but I can’t find any solutions. Is there a fix for this??

I am having the same issue for a month or more. Hoped the most recent update will fix. Didn’t fix it.

I just updated my iPhone 16 pro max with the iOS 18.2 and now when I swipe down in the middle all the app icons are gone. I took a screenshot of what I’m talking about. I use to see my favorite apps there. Please help

This same exact issue started with my iPhone about a month or two ago. Have you found a solution yet? It is very frustrating for sure. I search for PayPal for example and I have it as an APP on my iPhone but nothing comes up.

I'm also noticing the same issue now with my text messages. When I search for a name from the search bar in texts the most recent text with that person's name would come up and now my search bar for texts don't turn up any useful hits/ information.

Mine is doing the same. When I click the Search oval the keyboard doesn't pop up, so I am unable to search.

What is the search oval all I even know about is the pull down? I’m so annoyed. I shouldn’t have to figure out a different way to use my phone after having this option available to me for years. Why isn’t it working? Like just to search for the App Store I put and nothing comes up. It’s crazy. Just the eight things I always have nothing new anymore.

iPhoneDoctor123 said:

Jan 24, 2025 5:23 AM in response to iPhoneDoctor123

Update the iOS to 18.2.1

it works and solves the issue

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I found the exact opposite. I never saw this issue on 17.6.x.

As soon as I updated to 18.2.1 earlier this month, I started to see this issue.

Start your downward swipe from the middle of the Home Screen.

Go to settings, scroll down to an app, siri&search, show app in search, enable. You need to do this for every app you want to appear.

My impression is that the default behavior has changed, or there is somewhere a general setting I am unaware off.

Set Settings > Home Screen & App Library > [Search] Show on Home Screen = “on”.

Then you may simply tap the “Search” oval near the screen bottom.