Email search at iCloud.com does not work

I, too, have seen this issue since the inception of iCloud. I am growing ever more frustrated with the system and have filed numerous feedback reports with Apple, all apparently to no avail!

It seems like it should be such a simple thing to correct. What a shame!

That the iCloud Mail search function still doesn't work after years of being broken is maddening. I'm going to gamble here and assume that this can only mean one of two things...

1) Apple can't fix it.

2) Apple doesn't care enough to fix it.

There is no reality in which Apple can't make a search function work so that only leaves reason number two.

Meanwhile Apple continues to stampede us onto iCloud.

I'm not a Gmail fan and I don't want to be a Gmail fan...so Apple, how about a little help here?

Hear Hear. If the answer is #2, that begs the question Why? Why do they not care? Not only is Search a disaster, in all the ways described since 2011 ⚠, but also VIP is only randomly functional. Sometimes the identified VIP's are there, sometimes not; sometimes the whole VIP section is blank; sometimes there is an indication that the VIPs are there -- but in fact nothing is there; sometimes VIPs work as expected.

Perhaps the answer is #3. Development has been essentially abandoned, out of embarrassment.

BTW, check out the editing options available in this support area messaging system, including the Advanced options. Why are these not available in iCM?

November 4, 2011.

That was the first post on this thread. And even those posts said they have been dealing with this issue for years.

I like that my address says "@me.com" but it's hardly worth it if I can't do a simple email search.

I literally just had to find an email on my cell phone, read the date stamp, and scroll down to the actual day on my PC to download an attachment.

It doesn't "just work" and it's infuriating.

Gmail is still where it's at.

Bump, to keep this alive. How can this be escalated? Resorting back to gmail is not the viable solution.

HI my phone is not working beacuse my phone not Accept why can you tell what happened with my iPhone 6 plus thanks

Browser email search has never once worked for me since the inception of iCloud. Like another reply said, I literally have to search in my phone, memorize the date/time stamp, and scroll through my inbox until I find the message I'm looking for. It is absolutely maddening. How is this still a problem?? Ridiculous.

This is precisely one of the many reasons I still prefer to use Gmail and many of their other wonderful applications!

Still a big, big problem. Anyone find a workaround? iCloud search is waaaayyyyy behind Gmail search.

Hi Everyone.

I thought I'd get in early and add the first complaint on this issue for 2016. Seeing as the thread started in 2011 this is just a terrible state of affairs for one of the world's richest companies. It's just appalling. Apple! Spend some cash and fix this!

They are swimming in money regardless of broken systems, so why should they bother doing anything. So long as they have enough people buying crap mobile games and phones I doubt it will ever be fixed. It's always the bottom line...

I hope David Bowie has a word with Steve Jobs and they do some serious haunting in Cupertino and get this sorted. He'd not approve.

It's now 3 months since I replied, and still this is an ongoing issue? 😮 Sheesh! C'mon Apple!

I think its hilarious. I have had this email for over 6 years and searching has only worked for maybe 2 of those years.... maybe 2.

I always thought it was just my Mac aging or something like that. I find it frustrating too that when it starts looking it won't stop...there's no way to stop it and sometimes i have to come back in 15 minutes to an hour....I thought I just had too many e mails sitting not the server, but no. So now i see it's Apple who is not doing the right thing. Thanks to you and everyone else for making me realize i've been gaslighted (American term meaning to drive someone nuts because they think they are the ones who are experiencing or seeing certain things.)