iOS 8 Spotlight Search blank results bug with iPhone 6

Same here on iphone 5s/IOS 8.1.1

Other than restarting your phone have you tried reseting or restoring it? If not give it a try.

Same issue here, iPhone 5S iOS 8.1.1.

I'm also having the same problem with my iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 8.1.1. When I restart it, Spotlight search works for some time, but out of the blue, it stops working and brings no results. Email to myself, checking/ unchecking spotlight options doesn't work either. I like to use Spotlight search to easily and fastly find an app among tons of them I have installed but now I have to enter the AppStore and search the app I want. Not practical at all, but faster than turning lots of app screens back and forward looking for what I want. Apple, fix spotlight search, please!!

Why doesn't somebody from Apple take two seconds and chime in here to fix this basic feature that is crucial to using our phones?

Rgromfin wrote:

Why doesn't somebody from Apple take two seconds and chime in here to fix this basic feature that is crucial to using our phones?

Apple doesn't comment on these forums. What have you done to try and fix the problem yourself? Have you taken the phone into and Apple store or contacted Apple Support?

I've noticed that SS is able to search again. I did nothing at all, even didn't touch the Settings. It seems like SS makes decisions on it's on.

I will have to do that then, my closest apple store is too far to drive. I will call apple support.

I am also facing same problem with my iPhone 6+.. Once or twice in a day my iphone's spotlight search gives blank result. Which is quite frustating. Please let me know if someone got a solution.

I'm suspecting there's a big memory leak in 8.1.1. Other than the spotlight issue, has anyone else noticed issues witht their phone getting stuck unable to go portrait to landscape and some odd issues in the music app with app getting stuck on the cover view? On the iPad Air I've also noticed if yOU hold your finger on the screen on certain websites, big chunks of the page go blank until you release your finger from

tthe screen.

Same problem with my iPad and IPhone, It seems apple can't fix this problem as the 2 previous IOS updates were supposed to fix it.

Yes, this seems to be a widespread issue. There are numerous discussions and threads on this issue as well articles and Tweets -- one by a prominent Mac news editor. All threads indicate that restoring settings and even restoring a device as new provide the same temporary resolution as restarting one's device. The issue always seems to return intermittently on many devices running iOS 8.1.1. I've left feedback with Apple on this apparent bug.

Also have this issue. Only started last week AFAIK. Fix for me seems to be (honestly I only use it to get to apps), uncheck all spotlight options in settings, run spotlight, then I see the two search online type options, then go back to spotlight setting and recheck apps option, and then spotlight search seems to work again (at least for apps).

There are a few "solutions" around but the only one works is to reboot your phone. BTW, glad I'm not alone. Wish the coming 8.1.3 solves this.

I have the same issue with my iPhone6 and have been reading quite a bit about it on various forums, finding it is quite widespread with various fixes. It was occasional on 8.1 and now very frequent on 8.1.2. For me, personally, it seems to be related to Mail (and many have reported the strange fix that if they send an email to themselves it resolves the issue temporarily). I have tried removing and re-adding items to Spotlight systematically and for me, Mail is the culprit.

I'm going to speculate wildly:

If it is some kind of memory leak or else something else related to indexing Mail items for Spotlight this might explain it. In my case, Spotlight fails as soon as I add Mail as an indexed item. If I remove Mail from Spotlight and reboot, all is good (hard or soft reboot). I have a few Mail accounts, one being an Exchange account with a lot of history to index. It might explain why some get a fix sending themselves an email, but I don't. Perhaps their Mail setup is more straightforward and simply receiving a new email is enough to prompt Spotlight to reindex and start working again.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's related to the other seemingly atrocious methods Apple uses to search Exchange mail accounts to begin with. I have had terrible results trying to search anything through the iOS Mail app, particularly searching any server for older items which are no longer stored locally (it does not seem to ever search or return them in a logical or relevant order).

Anyway, for what it's worth, that has been my experience thus far.