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Adam Pitts Author

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iphone spotlight search

I don't know when this started, but on my iPhone 4S running iOS5, the spotlight search has stopped working. You can "swipe" to the left and see the keyboard come up, and you can type normally, but nothing happens. The only thing that makes it work is quitting all open applications and powering off/on. But even then, it only works a SINGLE time, then back to the same issue. Anyone know of any fix or is this an iOS5 issue?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), iPhone 4S, iPad 2, Airport Express

Posted on Oct 24, 2011 4:16 PM

67 replies

Mar 12, 2012 4:55 AM in response to jclipshamUK

Updated to 5.1 last week and since then the issue has been resolved. So updating to the lates iOS is the solution.

Thank you apple!

gingerwb

Level 1

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Mar 12, 2012 5:06 AM in response to Adam Pitts

Updating ISO to 5.1 has solved the issue, I can now search in everything, including emails.

Thanks Apple

Mar 12, 2012 6:38 PM in response to Adam Pitts

I updated to 5.1 last week. Spotlight worked BEFORE the update, but now does NOT work. Well, actually it works for all searches that do not begin with the letter N, H, or W.

ZAXX40

Level 1

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May 8, 2012 9:46 AM in response to tom in mpls

My spotlight search fails on too many letters are to many to list. Please fix Apple.

Jun 1, 2012 9:26 AM in response to Adam Pitts

I have the same problem. I found that formatting the laguage works (changing it to another language, then back to english), still an annoying issue... Hope apple fixes it soon. Too many problems with such an expensive device....