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Siri & Search in Settings. Can configure what’s shown. Although it’s true what they say in your [1] link with the speed.

by bashy 4y ago

culi 4y ago
Yeah sorry I should've specified I already tried turning Siri results off and it didn't help. I see you can also turn off "Show Content in Search" for each app... I guess I can spend 10 minutes doing that on my 100+ apps
- jamiek88 4y ago
  I do the same and instead just search from the App Library screen that shows only apps. Like I just swipe to that screen which is my second screen and enter the first letter and it’s done. Same amount of swipes just right instead of down! Doesn’t help if you have pages of apps and have to swipe five or six times to get to the App Library but I hide them all in two folders, one for Apple apps and one for installed apps so searching is key. (this was before the option to add to App Library only, indeed before App Library existed I’d basically created my own!)
  - hanche 4y ago
    > Doesn’t help if you have pages of apps and have to swipe five or six times to get to the App Library There’s another hidden feature: swiping on the row of dots near the bottom of the screen lets you scroll through the pages at speed. Om iOS 16, you have to turn off the search field on the home page, since it replaces the dots. Fortunately, you can still swipe down to reveal the old search field.
    - sbuk 4y ago
      You don’t have to turn the search field off at all. Just swipe the search field. This is a great example of how discovery works. Before replying, I just tried swiping and it worked. Edit: normal swiping between screens switches the search field to dots. This got me to thinking, how much of this is a discovery problem (which I’m increasingly finding harder to believe) to one of users not paying attention.
      - hanche 4y ago
        Swiping on the search field works (I had already forgotten that), but when you have a lot of pages, as I do, the feedback is much worse, as it does not expand the field to accomodate all the dots. It’s amazing what difference such small details make. Edit: The feedback is unimportant if all you want is to swipe to one end, if course; which is what prompted this subthread.

Siri & Search in Settings. Can configure what’s shown. Although it’s true what they say in your [1] link with the speed.

by bashy 4y ago

Siri & Search in Settings. Can configure what’s shown. Although it’s true what they say in your [1] link with the speed.

culi 4y ago

Yeah sorry I should've specified I already tried turning Siri results off and it didn't help. I see you can also turn off "Show Content in Search" for each app... I guess I can spend 10 minutes doing that on my 100+ apps

jamiek88 4y ago
I do the same and instead just search from the App Library screen that shows only apps. Like I just swipe to that screen which is my second screen and enter the first letter and it’s done. Same amount of swipes just right instead of down! Doesn’t help if you have pages of apps and have to swipe five or six times to get to the App Library but I hide them all in two folders, one for Apple apps and one for installed apps so searching is key. (this was before the option to add to App Library only, indeed before App Library existed I’d basically created my own!)
- hanche 4y ago
  > Doesn’t help if you have pages of apps and have to swipe five or six times to get to the App Library There’s another hidden feature: swiping on the row of dots near the bottom of the screen lets you scroll through the pages at speed. Om iOS 16, you have to turn off the search field on the home page, since it replaces the dots. Fortunately, you can still swipe down to reveal the old search field.
  - sbuk 4y ago
    You don’t have to turn the search field off at all. Just swipe the search field. This is a great example of how discovery works. Before replying, I just tried swiping and it worked. Edit: normal swiping between screens switches the search field to dots. This got me to thinking, how much of this is a discovery problem (which I’m increasingly finding harder to believe) to one of users not paying attention.
    - hanche 4y ago
      Swiping on the search field works (I had already forgotten that), but when you have a lot of pages, as I do, the feedback is much worse, as it does not expand the field to accomodate all the dots. It’s amazing what difference such small details make. Edit: The feedback is unimportant if all you want is to swipe to one end, if course; which is what prompted this subthread.