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Does "Find text on web pages" work on iPhone 3G/iOS 4.2.1?

According to the website describing iOS 4.2.1 you can search an open web page for keywords; "In Safari, you can do a quick text search to find and highlight specific words and phrases on even the longest web pages." It doesn't appear to be working on my iPhone 3G after installing iOS 4.2.1. I enter a term in the "Google" search box and it doesn't give me the option to search for that word in the currently open page. Can anyone confirm if this works on the iPhone 3G and if I'm doing it correctly?

iPhone 3G, iOS 4, OS Agnostic

Posted on Nov 22, 2010 1:38 PM

19 replies

beezbeez

Level 1

0 points

Feb 1, 2011 9:59 AM in response to don.beattie.maine

Reply to calendar invitations

Messaging with text tones

Find text on web pages

Neither of the above features work on 3GS with the 4.2 upgrade.

Feb 9, 2011 1:05 PM in response to don.beattie.maine

This does work, When your on safari on your iphone, go to the google search in the upper right, type whatever your looking for then scroll down on the search and on the bottom it will say search on this page and it will show if it found anything on the page where it says that. Click it and then you can click next and it will go through all of those matches.

croozer

Level 1

4 points

Feb 9, 2011 1:10 PM in response to don.beattie.maine

don.beattie.maine wrote:
According to the website describing iOS 4.2.1 you can search an open web page for keywords; "In Safari, you can do a quick text search to find and highlight specific words and phrases on even the longest web pages." It doesn't appear to be working on my iPhone 3G after installing iOS 4.2.1. I enter a term in the "Google" search box and it doesn't give me the option to search for that word in the currently open page. Can anyone confirm if this works on the iPhone 3G and if I'm doing it correctly?

I took my iPod Touch to the Genius Bar at Apple and asked the Genius about the Find Text feature. He couldn't get it to work, either. He suggested I back it up and do a total restore. I did that. Still doesn't work.

TashTish

Level 1

35 points

Jul 24, 2011 12:13 AM in response to beezbeez

I believe that some features are turned off for certain older devices. Fair? Hardly. A fact of life, with any technology (not just Apple's)? Definitely

Does "Find text on web pages" work on iPhone 3G/iOS 4.2.1?