problem searching contacts iPhone 6s IOS 9.1

YTes, you can érase all you iPhone from settings, etc., the phone Will restart to the original IOS from factory. BUT BE AWARE THAT if you use this procedure will have to begging you phone as a new one, without using ITunes. Hope that help You.

HI, in my case this worked out very well, still having my contacts without ant problem. Remember you have to wait some time meanwhile you sinc your phone with ICloud.

Excuse me, but why should anyone have to go through all this just to get a function that used to work before upgrade. Apple please take care of this bug ASAP!

I don't know if this helps but I did a full restore and deleted MS Outlook app from my phone. When I looked at the logs the Outlook app had just released 2.0 and I thought that perhaps my contacts disappearing could have something to do with that.

The jury's still out because my phone is STILL downloading from a september backup. Been running about 16 hours now.

Having the same issue. I only have one group of contacts linked to an Outlook.com account so the fixes above are not an option. Spotlight search works but searching within the contacts app does not. I have the exact same setup on my iPad Air with IOS 9.1 and the search function works normally. Has to be a glitch in the new release. Major annoyance tha Apple needs to address -- soon!

I have the same issue with my work exchange contacts. Every hour or so i have to go back to groups and uncheck and check my exchange contacts for them to show up in search. Uncheking and checking is only a temporary fix. Very frustrating hope apple has an update coming fast.

You do not even need to check/uncheck. It's enough to go to groups and go back 😁

Stupid thing...

In our case, some problems were solved with change in Settings->Mail,Contacts,Calendars->Default Account in Contacts section.

We changed from "on my iphone" to "Exchange".

After a change it's necessary to wait (usually less than a minute).

That solution was working for few 5s (including our testing 5s), but did not work for 6.

However it's always worth to try 🙂

im happy to report that my address search has been fixed!! I upgraded to the latest beta, so those not on it, I'm sure an official will be out shortly! I've spoken to Apple a few times, and glad they were able to send it to the right people to review the glitch 🙂 thanks apple

Glad to find out that Apple is finally doing something to fix this bug. Ridiculous that someone has to discover a "work-around" to an issue that never existed before. Hopefully that new update comes soon...annoying!

Does anyone else feel that Apple's latest updates are bug-filled? The latest iOS (9 + up) seems very buggy and sluggish on my 6+.

yes, it is more buggy and sluggish. Strange think is, that on wife's phone, everything is working well and our phones are very similar from the settings and applications point of view.

The workaround to un-select and select in "groups" does the trick, but only once, meaning i have to do it every time i want to search. This is so annoying.

Dear All,

This update 9.1 is ******* like anything...... Contacts search has made life ****..... moreoever whatsapp is also not working that smoothly.. sometimes applicaton crashes..... & it hangs if we try to clicking numeric keypad to dial someone.... Apple please help us out. This will loose ur market share.... Apple was famous for smooth operations & was giving a tough fight to samsung..... these type of issues will leave a black spot on apple face....

I have got full proof solution to this. go to setting>> Icloud and close contacts from there. Once done come back to the home screen contacts>> Click on groups on the left corner for the contacts screen and check both options and Google/other email and click done... This will solve the problem once in for all.. Let me know if this is helpfull

Problem exists if you have Groups...delete them from your PC and sync. Search will work.

i have the same problem contact searching after update IOS. 9.1