iOS 8.1.1 update not searching for apps in spotlight

The language setting change alone restored app search for me, without having to change any other spotlight settings. Thanks for the tip!

hey all I had a friend with the same issue it turns out he had that many apps there was no free spots on any of the home screens and so I got him to place all the apps into folders (there is a limit of 135 apps per folder) and then I got him to restart his phones/ipad and the issue was resolved I haven't heard any more from him about it, the biggest thing that threw my friend and I off when sorting out the issue was the fact the issue was present on 2 of his iphones and his ipad the reason for that was he had automatic app downloads turned on for those devices so for the most part all the apps he had downloaded on each device were on all the devices. another step you can take is go into settings general spotlight un tick all the spotlight options then restart your device then re tick all the spotlight options and do another restart which should rebuild the spotlight index hope this helps.

I have just tried the language trick on an iPhone 5S and it worked. Hopefully it will stick.

I had the same issue with spotlight not showing Apps anymore.

I resolved the issue (at least temp.) by cutting down on the spotlight search result types.

Apple needs to fix this asap. A crucial function on iOS for me.

changing language or reset (location & privacy) solved the problem but restarting the iPhone 6 corrupted searches for apps once again. Simplest temporary workaround for me is reset (and avoid reboot).

Looks like this is resolved with the newest iOS update to iOS 8.1.3.

I"m still seeing this issue in 8.2, anybody else?

Had this issue, just had to disable the "Bing search results" (how did that get inthere?!) but otherwise kept all the spotlight searchresult types.