on my iPhone 6 plus running iOS 8.0.2, when pulling down from any screen to reveal Spotlight search bar, the entire screen goes into black/grey color. No matter what I try it stays this way. Any ideas how to fix this? I don't have any accessibilities turned on except reduce noise when calling.
Hi wenyang steven,
If you are having issues with your iPhone showing a grey screen when you try to do a spotlight search, you may want to try some things to troubleshoot.
First, quit all running applications and test again -
Next, I would try restarting the iPhone -
Turn your iOS device off and on (restart) and reset
If the issue is still present, you may want to restore the iPhone as a new device -
iOS: How to back up your data and set up your device as a new device
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Best,
Brett L
Thanks for the reply Brett.
While I know "restore the iPhone as a new device" is the official Apple solution to every problem, I'm hoping to find a solution where a restore is not necessary. While I love my new iPhone 6 Plus, I don't think I can say the same about iOS 8. So many bugs. It feels like Apple has never done any QA upon releasing the software. I know this is not your problem and I'm not complaining either. It's just a user's feedback
I have the same problem... Did you restore from your old phone's backup or did you set it up as new?
I faced exactly the same issue on my new iphone 6 running ios 8.1.1. When doing a spotlight search from any homescreen the background screen becomes dark - black & white / greyscale instead of the usual transparent screen.
I closed all running apps & restarted the phone. This seems to solve the issue.
However its certainly a software issue on ios8. I am just hoping it doesnt re-appear. Hope apple releases a fix for this.
Hi All,
following solution would help to fix the issue :
Go to settings, accessibility,increase contrast then try to turn on and off the reduce transparency.
salute
Ehsan P
Thanks Ehsan. I saw that I had this issue after tuning my settings. When searching in spotlight my background and app icons was gray/black and pixelate. The on/off option fixed this issue.
Hi everyone,
I faced this issue again on my iphone 6 running on latest iOS8.3. As before, restarting the phone solved it.
In my 4 months of using iphone, i have encountered this behaviour 2-3 times.
It does not happen that frequently, but still a bug is a bug & should be fixed thru software. I was hoping the iOS8.3 must have fixed this issue permanently, but since I have encountered it once, I can say it still exists.
Regards
Had the same problem. Display and all icons were greyed out. Went to settings - General - Accessibility and turned all Accessibility features off.Somehow these features got turned on while using Spotlight search.Grayscale was one of them the other was Reduce Noise. I then reselected my wallpaper and this fixed the problem.
Brett, Why didn't you suggest checking to see if Grayscale was turned on in Accessibility settings? When I had this problem I discovered Grayscale had been turned on accidently.
Spotlight black/grey background on iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 8.0.2
