iPhone 4 onscreen keyboard not closing when leaving "search iphone" screen

Try this. Go to the home screen on your phone. Swipe to the right to bring up spotlight search. Hold the power button down as you would to power off. When the red slider appears, release the power button, but now hold down the home button until the red slider disappears. Try searching now, but make sure you tap the "search" key on the keyboard to signify a search request, and they keyboard should drop down.

Try a reset by pressing the home and sleep (on/off) buttons until you see the Apple logo, ignoring the slider. Takes about 5-15 secs of button holding and you won't lose any data or settings.

You're welcome. FYI, what AndrewJ mentioned doesn't do anything, i.e. it's not a reset.

It's not a reset, it does however forcequit the running process and does reset the app or process running at the time, so it does do something. Obviously there was a system issue, but thanks for being so kind with your baseball bat. I thought we all chime in to help, but I don't live here as much as you obviuosly do. I have a life.

I realize that's a force quit but I'm not sure it does anything from Spotlight Search, since that's still open and running after the force quit.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be unkind, it just didin't come out like I was thinking. 😉

My thought process was that the spotlight UI might be in a bind and force quitting is the best way to check or isolate the issue. It's more precise than a fix all, cross your fingers, hope for the best, hard reset., (if you were a developer you would know this). Any dolt could recommend a hard reset. Please, if you have an issue with my methods of attack, be a little more professional than, "it does nothing". It shows little curtousy to someone who's been working with Apple products for 25 years.

I apologized but it's quite clear you chose not to accept that. You then continue to attack me... I'm really not a dolt, I don't live here and I do have a life (quite a nice one at that). While the force quit is very beneficial in many cases, I'm not convinced it does anything from Spotlight. I'll not attack you back but I will leave you on your little hill to defend. Have a nice day Andrew. 😉

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Thanks Paul, worked like a charm.

"Gig'em Aggies!"

I experience the same issue and unfortunately re-starting by holding Home Button + Sleep Button for 15 secs resolves the issue temporarely. I tried settings reset, system reset and sure app quite forcing. All in vain - it keep gettnig back to me, plus the Home Button may behave sparadically - sometimes iOS reacts like I've made double click but in reality it was just a single one and vise versa,

Hey,

Thanks for the info. I faced same problem with search keyboard and resetting did the thing. For now.

Thank you