how can i bring search bar back to top on all apps in ios26 update

Helpful? When scrolling for something, the item will finally appear just above the search bar. When I tap the item it keeps registering a tap to the search bar. I find it irritating like many of the cosmetic changes that came with iOS 26 that we have no choice but accept.

Like the juvenile motions in messages and animated screen openings.

Buttertart wrote:

Helpful? When scrolling for something, the item will finally appear just above the search bar. When I tap the item it keeps registering a tap to the search bar. I find it irritating like many of the cosmetic changes that came with iOS 26 that we have no choice but accept.

Like the juvenile motions in messages and animated screen openings.

You know you can turn off the animations, right? Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Reduce Motion

Buttertart wrote:

its very simple: you scroll from the bottom up. Having the bar at the bottom is too close to the start of a scroll. The natural progression and clear separation of the two highly used tasks is to have the bar at the top.

Telling only other users what you believe is natural, gets you nothing here. This is a user to user only forum.

Feel to tell Apple what you think is natural here --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Ok

You can do that with a bar on top too. The bar stays with you.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

Post of the day, right there!! 😉

<takes a bow>

👍

For once, common sense on this thread.

Including this form was very helpful. Thank you! I've sent my feedback

already did that and there is still animation and motion inherent in the applications.

OK. There is no way to get rid of ALL animations. Not on iPhone. And not on Android either.

The only place currently you can move the Search Bar is in Safari, the rest of your apps have it to the bottom. I actually find it helpful as you no longer have to scroll all the way back to the top of the page to search for something and can now do it anywhere on the page.

I too would like the search bar (almost) always back up the top in Apple’s Apps etc.

The reason: many (most) 3rd party Apps still have it at the top so my “muscle memory” is always expecting and looking for it up the top in ALL Apps. I waste much time now in Apple Apps trying to raise or find the search bar (even though it is on the screen down the bottom).

Having the bar back up the top would be consistent!

Agree with Zachyy that searching from anywhere is nice BUT the search bar could still be at the top - just always displayed or a simple guesture to raise the bar.

DocRn wrote:

As a disabled person will visibly issues, I need it back at the top. I have extreme difficulty and my 23 year old daughter won’t be her much longer to assist. I need it back at the top

Could you explain how it is harder for you to move a finger to the bottom of the screen than to the top?

or feedback to Accessibility Support - Official Apple Support

Good for you. But many of us like it better at the top all the time. Our eyes are used to looking there, so it takes longer and feels unintuitive to find it at the bottom, especially with the barely-there low contrast of Liquid Glass. It’s an arbitrary change that users should have control over