I'm having to type the full name of the app for it to show up in Spotlight search results. This was never the case before. A few letters of the app name would bring up the name in iOS 10! Unless I'm doing something wrong, this is a huge disappointment!
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Spotlight Search for Apps in iOS 11
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I have found this as well. This is the way that I launch apps all the time!
I have found a solution, though - go into general, search & siri suggestions and then go into the apps and turn ON the search. I had turned this off in IOS10 as I don't really want the content only the apps to be shown, but it appears in IOS11 that the two are tied together
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James
Should work if it even does in app searches. But I don't use Siri.
Edit: I have the opposite problem and don't find an option to disable Spotlight. Was it even possible before?
Edit: I have the opposite problem and don't find an option to disable Spotlight. Was it even possible before?
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I was just about to post a thread about this. Totally insane! What were they thinking? I’ve been using this feature all the time, both on iPad and Mac for launching apps. It’s pretty much the only thing I use Spotlight for.
No complaints about iOS 11 otherwise (so far), but this is simply a massive annoyance.
Edit: Ok so there is a way, as instructed above. Still, this sucks. In most cases I’m not interested in the app data, I only want to launch the app. Oh well..
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Didn't notice that earlier, but it's the same for me. I relied on seeing the folder name in a few occasions, now I can't any more.
Same problem here... I have lots of apps, and never use the "icon" to open it. Until iOS 11, I used Spotlight to find any app with the 2 inicial letters... now it is not working anymore. I have to type the entire app name exactly to show up, or search for the app in the app store and then open it from there...
If you activate the Siri search, Spotlight gets cluttered with lots of infos from inside the apps...
I posted this issue late in the Developer Beta cycle, and there were no legitimate solutions then, and there aren't now. You either have to include the app in the Spotlight search and accept that it's also searching within the apps, or not search it at all and can only open it by typing the actual app name (not the display name, but the actual file name of the app, aka if the app is called Bank of America you have to type BofA because that's what the file is called)... really poor implementation.
I reported the issue to Apple, but who knows if they consider it an "issue" or a "feature" ... these days at apple it seems hard to know which is which in their mind, similar to their interpretation of "mistake" vs "by design" in their product releases.
Sad.
I reported the issue to Apple, but who knows if they consider it an "issue" or a "feature" ... these days at apple it seems hard to know which is which in their mind, similar to their interpretation of "mistake" vs "by design" in their product releases.
Sad.