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Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by pwagland on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:58PM (#49703908)
This, and then, if you notice, and backspace to remove the 'e', it doesn't put chess back into the search results, since it figures that everything that matches 'che' also matches 'ch', and so doesn't update it. Sometimes, if you add the 'e' again, it _will_ find chess, sometimes you need to type the 's', or even the final 's' before it gives you chess back again.

And sometimes, it finds what you want, but before you can select it, it decides that it has found something better, and places that in the place where you wanted to select, causing you to select the wrong thing. And then it thinks that because you selected this, it must be what you want, and starts to push it to the top…

Search is definitely frustrating.

Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by docjay on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:23PM (#49706108)
Weird, the same stupid crap happens with Windows. I’ve had to learn the exact N character search to find the things I use often; any more or less and the result with that name is buried. It’s like Microsoft and Apple are just pip installing same broken search package.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by qsi on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:37PM (#49706203)
On Windows I use PowerToys' Alt+Space command bar which does a much better job. In fact, it's the only search I use on Windows.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by docjay on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:28PM (#49707364)
Good info, I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by Daneel_ on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:53AM (#49711141)
I switched to Everything for search a while ago and haven’t looked back. For the start menu I replace it with Open Shell, which seems to find apps much more reliably.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by Melatonic on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:17AM (#49708918)
Always turn off searching the internet as much as possible on both. Helps a ton. I think I set both windows and iOS to only search local applications and settings
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by anthonyrstevens on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @10:48AM (#49713409)
I don't find this to be the case at all.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 by dTal on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:47AM (#49711093)
Firefox's "awesome bar" behaves the same way. I guess it's either inherent to the problem somehow, or else everyone is sharing a library (unlikely), or else everyone just makes the same mistakes.