Spotlight search won't find apps (iPhone 6/iOS 8.1.2)

Changing keyboards seems to help.

Looks like they fixed it in 8.1.3 :

For some reason I can't post a link here but the release notes say:

'Addresses an issue that caused Spotlight to stop displaying applications'

How much Kudos would Apple receive to respond in forums like this with 'we're working on it folks'

Secret society does you no favors sometimes !

This just happened to me on iOS 9.0.2 - restarting didn't help, toggled spotlight app search on and off, nothing. Emailed myself from iCloud to my Apple user ID and read the email, boom the apps show up in Spotlight again.

Wow! I presumed this solution was the result of a coincidence but it worked! Thank you.

This new search is highly frustrating. I only want to use the spotlight search to find app (as finding app is a nightmare); you could do this easily till a few years back by switching all searches off (calendar, emails etc) but now they have overcomplicated it. As soon as you type something, it brings numerous pages and you have scroll down to search for your app, so you have to do another search for searching the app, and at times its intact quicker to start searching the app manually. Can someone please help me configure spotlight to only search apps?

wow - that really works - very weird

Unfortunately this didn't work for me and neither did resetting my phone nor closing the settings app...anyone have any other suggestions for getting the spotlight search app to recognize apps?

Armageddon type fixes are not really helful