I’ve only found info to bring search bar back to top in Safari, how about other apps such as mail or messages?
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Original Title: how can i bring search bar back to top on all apps in ios26 update
iPhone 14, iOS 26
lexigirl08 wrote:
I’m part of the disabled community and I have to hold my phone in the palm of my hands and my thumbs don’t work. So to move the phone down to access the search bar, etc will inevitably my phone will fall out of my hands. And I assume the ppl who don’t have a issue with these changes are probably much younger and can adapt to changes that seem simple and not a big deal…and the rest of us who are probably in the older generation (me 61) I never thought age would matter when I’ve been doing things for many years, but our reaction and movement is much slower and gets slower by the day. Idk if the younger generation have ever heard this phrase before ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’
I also HATE HATE HATE this glass effect. I want the old way back.
id also like to know how and why my passcode now requires 6 digit when it’s been 4 digit. I can only get into my watch by opening my phone. I hope Apple comes out with an update to fix these issues!
I'm in the older generation as in over 70 and I love Liquid Glass. But for those who don't, I wrote this user tip, which might actually help you --> Liquid Glass - Love It Or Hate It - It's … - Apple Community
You can't move the search bar back to the top anywhere except in Safari. This is a user to user only forum, so we didn't change things, nor can we bring anything back as it was before. But you are welcome to share your thoughts with Apple here --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple
Apple did not make a change to require you to use a 6 digit passcode. You have the option to choose a 4 digit passcode as you have always had the option to do. When you go to set up a Passcode, it will default to 6 digit, but you can tap below to choose a 4 digit code if you want. See how to change your passcode here --> Use a passcode with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
Jeff Donald wrote:
Hi, I can probably answer a little more definitively your questions about these communities. I’ve been on them over 25 years. But more importantly I’m a former Apple employee. We were actually forbidden to go to these communities and if caught, the punishment was being fired.
Why would Apple not collect all this valuable data you may be thinking. Good question. It’s simple. The information can’t be verified. Many of these posts are made by bots and individuals or companies and written about nonexistent problems they’re having. I’ve actually met people who were hired to do that. They write fake reviews, fake posts about fake problems. They would have multiple fake identities and do it for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week on multiple sites.
Even the real posts contain almost zero information that can tested and repeated. When I worked for Apple we had entirely different methods. We’d “capture” a device malfunctioning at a store, send it to engineering and they’d duplicate the issue and determine if it was hardware, software or both. A service bulletin might be released or findings would go over to the software team. Vague verbal descriptions from anonymous posters are pretty useless. Now your issue is a little different. You want a user interface change. Again, bots and malicious actors are involved. It’s easy to fill up threads creating confusion and igniting passions and frustration. The poor guy with a solvable issue gets lost in the shuffle and gets frustrated and goes off to suffer somewhere else.
How do you get your point across? Go through the official channel for feedback. The link has been provided and I’ll include it at the bottom. Apple reads every submission received. They are compiled, categorized and carefully analyzed. Change may happen. But not through these meaningless threads full of rants. That’s what bots do.
Thanks for that perspective, Jeff. It's great to hear about this issue from someone who was in the trenches.
I too would like the search bar (almost) always back up the top in Apple’s Apps etc.
The reason: many (most) 3rd party Apps still have it at the top so my “muscle memory” is always expecting and looking for it up the top in ALL Apps. I waste much time now in Apple Apps trying to raise or find the search bar (even though it is on the screen down the bottom).
Having the bar back up the top would be consistent!
Agree with Zachyy that searching from anywhere is nice BUT the search bar could still be at the top - just always displayed or a simple guesture to raise the bar.
DocRn wrote:
As a disabled person will visibly issues, I need it back at the top. I have extreme difficulty and my 23 year old daughter won’t be her much longer to assist. I need it back at the top
Could you explain how it is harder for you to move a finger to the bottom of the screen than to the top?
or feedback to Accessibility Support - Official Apple Support
Good for you. But many of us like it better at the top all the time. Our eyes are used to looking there, so it takes longer and feels unintuitive to find it at the bottom, especially with the barely-there low contrast of Liquid Glass. It’s an arbitrary change that users should have control over
vdogg78 wrote:
Good for you. But many of us like it better at the top all the time. Our eyes are used to looking there, so it takes longer and feels unintuitive to find it at the bottom, especially with the barely-there low contrast of Liquid Glass. It’s an arbitrary change that users should have control over
I like it on the bottom where it is closer to the keyboard when typing. That makes much more sense to me instead of looking at the top of the screen. Apparently we differ in our opinions, so certainly send feedback to Apple and let them know how you feel.
Mac Jim ID wrote:
vdogg78 wrote:
Good for you. But many of us like it better at the top all the time. Our eyes are used to looking there, so it takes longer and feels unintuitive to find it at the bottom, especially with the barely-there low contrast of Liquid Glass. It’s an arbitrary change that users should have control over
I like it on the bottom where it is closer to the keyboard when typing. That makes much more sense to me instead of looking at the top of the screen. Apparently we differ in our opinions, so certainly send feedback to Apple and let them know how you feel.
Me too! It's one of the better changes Apple has made as far as I'm concerned.
Not quite true. While it is for windows and android, it’s not for all OS’s. Linux allows you to customise and control every aspect, if you want. It lets YOU have control, because it wants YOU use YOUR device the way YOU want.
Elliot_Bojko wrote:
Not quite true. While it is for windows and android, it’s not for all OS’s. Linux allows you to customise and control every aspect, if you want. It lets YOU have control, because it wants YOU use YOUR device the way YOU want.
Then you have an opportunity here. Design a cell phone operating system based on Linux and build a cell phone around it. Otherwise, comparing ONE OS to every other OS isn't much of a valid comparison. Of the choices you have on Cell Phones, Apple (iOS), Google (Android), Tizen, Harmony OS, and others DON'T give the user total control over the UI.
vdogg78 wrote:
Good for you. But many of us like it better at the top all the time. Our eyes are used to looking there, so it takes longer and feels unintuitive to find it at the bottom, especially with the barely-there low contrast of Liquid Glass. It’s an arbitrary change that users should have control over
But, just as you learned to look to the top, you'll learn to look to the bottom. It may be uncomfortable for a little while but you'll get there.
Elliot_Bojko wrote:
Not quite true. While it is for windows and android, it’s not for all OS’s. Linux allows you to customise and control every aspect, if you want. It lets YOU have control, because it wants YOU use YOUR device the way YOU want.
Linux "lets you have control" like driving a waggon with 8 horses through a shopping mall herding cats. You spend all your time making the machine work and get no actual work done.
Went there for several years, gave up and got a Mac.
lobsterghost1 wrote:
Can you imagine the disaster this forum would become if users could change everything on an iPhone? It would be flooded with people who made changes, but had no clue how they made changes and expect us to figure out what they did. I shudder at the thought.
Do you remember ResEdit? You could do all sorts of modifications to your Mac. Lots of fun until you did something you didn't quite understand and then.... hopefully, you had a good back up.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
lobsterghost1 wrote:
Can you imagine the disaster this forum would become if users could change everything on an iPhone? It would be flooded with people who made changes, but had no clue how they made changes and expect us to figure out what they did. I shudder at the thought.
Do you remember ResEdit? You could do all sorts of modifications to your Mac. Lots of fun until you did something you didn't quite understand and then.... hopefully, you had a good back up.
My Mac days didn't start until the MacBook Pro M1 was launched, so I don't remember ResEdit, but it sounds evil! Just as evil as an iPhone 100% Linux based, would be.
so was searching on how to move the search bar back up to top, and if you hold the phone in the typical position and try to type with both hands holding the phone, you will find the bar is almost always directly JUST above your finger which is very awkward to read.
This is ODD and NOT comfortable to use.
When you type & read, Your line of sight will typically JUST be inline with the TOP of the phone which where the older search bar was.
I seriously starting to doubt Apple has actually properly tested how ergonomically feasible of their newer product design is now.
search bar for one of the major one, and the "extra multi-function button" is can now accidently goes from silence to ring due to how your hand is holding it...this is another gripe for another thread.
they can just keep the search bar ACTIVE regardless how far down of the page you are in.
This search bar disappeared in Apple is just like those websites where the top task bar disappeared when you scrolled down where it should had been active at all time on the top!
imagine you are using excel and all your ribbon disappeared because you scrolled down? NIGHTMARE!
Move iPhone search bar to top after iOS 26 update
