Having written few comments and keywords within the Notes' field (on Contacts) thru the years (on my PowerBook) I now find the iPad's search tool (either on Contacts or the general one on the main screen) does not "look through" the Notes field (just the name/company...
Any suggestion on how to get the Search tool to scan/look through the "Notes" field on Contacts...? Is there any other application which might...?
Thanks
iPad 2, iOS 4.3.3
I am aware of this issue too. Sadly, I don't think there is a work around. It's a OS issue.
I just tried to see if Bento would look into the notes field of a member in contacts. No.
I have found that material in a contacts note's field is included when doing that same search on my big machine running Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Lepard).
Thanks - it's indeed the case, and that's why is so frustrating... Got a decade plus of comments/keywords on the Notes field (which I happily searched thru on my Mac laptops...) now rendered useless on iPad. Hope Apple picks on this issue soon.
Is there any formal Feedback gathering forum among the OS developers...?
Rgds
You can provide your own feedback here with Apple.
Am I overreacting to say this is an incredible oversight on the part of Apple? My pre-2000 Palm Pilot had the ability to search the entire contents of the device, as does any PC or Mac. The Contacts app is a database, and one fundamental feature of a database is that it is completely searchable. Why would Apple designers ever think it sufficient to search only the contacts name field?
Just discovered this free app to search Contacts: Kontakts by Kakao.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kontakts-kakao-contacts-power/id496811213?mt=8
How to search within the Contacts notes field?
