iOS 9 Spotlight doesn't find apps

[PumpkinX]

I don't know if this had been brought up here before but the iOS 9 spotlight doesn't seem to search for apps as in if i search angry birds, which is installed on my iPhone, the results doesn't show the app. Anyone knows a fix or is there a setting to change?

 

[edm_11]

same here. nothijng works for me so far with regards to spotlight search

 

[*adiBOY]

My spotlight search is able to search for everything even information within an app.

 

[dawntime]

soft reset may help

 

[edm_11]

nope it did not help lol

 

[*adiBOY]

nope it did not help lol

Did you turn on your spotlight search?

 

[edm_11]

yeap. checked "on" for all the apps. Can only find my contacts but not app s

 

[ragnarok95]

System Services > Safari & Spotlight Suggestion is it on?

 

[edm_11]

yeap lol

I can live with it actually , just find it weird. IOS 8 spotlight much better to customize

 

[Winston7222]

Have you tried to Off it, restart phone, then On it again?

 

[edm_11]

did that as well bro. hmm

 

[*adiBOY]

Can post screenshot of your spotlight search screen and also one more screenshot when you key in "Maps" at the search bar?

 

[PumpkinX]

I am thinking it's because I turned off the option to search apps in previous version of iOS and somehow apple missed including this option in iOS 9 spotlight option so it just carry over the settings. Now with the spotlight supposedly improved and my number of apps getting bigger and bigger and using more folders I thought it would be a good time to use spotlight to launch my apps but it turns out to be a dud.