How to Restore Spotlight App Launching in iOS 11 Beta

Dave Hamilton

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Many folks using the latest iOS 11 betas have been unable to launch apps in Spotlight search by just typing a fragment of the app’s name. We dug into this and, in this week’s Mac Geek Gab Highlight, we’ll tell you how to fix it! Listen, learn, and then subscribe to MGG if you want to hear tips shared like this every week!

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  1. luckman212 Subscriber 9 years ago

    Put up a post on AskDifferent – hoping Apple devs might see it there and fix this…
    https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/299253/fixing-app-search-in-ios-11

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  2. luckman212 Subscriber 9 years ago

    Thanks for this podcast and the info about the change to the way Spotlight finds apps on iOS11. This was driving me crazy! I hate this new “feature” and I was one of “those people” who used Spotlight mainly as an app-launcher so this totally breaks everything for me.

    I really hope Apple wakes up and fixes this in 11.0.1

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