HT201285 Iphone search trouble

When I active the search function and type whatever word, the iphone 4S it does not find/list the topic that I'm looking for.
I have the new IOS version and it was working properly until 3 weeks ago.
What do I have to do to make it work again?
Tks

I'm having the same issue, as well when I go to search an email might come up that I want to view and I select it the header is the correct email but the body of the email is a totally different unrelated email.
Does anyone have have any advice?

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