"Find on page" stopped working since iOS 16 update

I've been having this problem for a few months and it's making it so much harder to get any work done with my phone.

This happens nearly 100% of the time when I use Safari, and it happens sporadically with other apps when looking at a PDF (pages, acrobat etc).

I frequently read research papers and need to use the "find on page" keyword search feature multiple times in a day.

It no longer finds the keyword I am searching for, even when I can see one example of the keyword on the document and I know it's there.

Sometimes if I save as a pdf or open a link in "Pages" or another browser, sometimes it will work then, but sometimes it still will show "0" results.

How can this be fixed? Resetting and clearing cache/cookies has not helped.

iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 16

Posted on Jan 22, 2023 01:15 PM

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Posted on Jan 23, 2023 01:03 PM

OK, here’s what I found. The Internal Revenue Service has adequate forms and documents to illustrate.


First, I duplicated your issue by checking the Form 1040 Instructions. I could not find any word, or even any occurrence of the letter “e”. But notice the file is 113 pages!


Next, I inspected the actual Form 1040, which is only two pages long, and my searches were successful! Both were done using Safari (iPadOS 16.3).

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Jan 23, 2023 01:03 PM in response to Sparrowsavs

OK, here’s what I found. The Internal Revenue Service has adequate forms and documents to illustrate.


First, I duplicated your issue by checking the Form 1040 Instructions. I could not find any word, or even any occurrence of the letter “e”. But notice the file is 113 pages!


Next, I inspected the actual Form 1040, which is only two pages long, and my searches were successful! Both were done using Safari (iPadOS 16.3).

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"Find on page" stopped working since iOS 16 update

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