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Spotlight for me is an important way to get to contacts and applications on my iPhone and iPad. With the latest iOS 8.1.1 release, the spotlight feature on my iPhone stopped working completely and the only way to get it to work was rebooting the phone. Even after that it only worked for half an hour (tops)!! My iPad on the other hand had no issues at all.
After going through a lot of forums, I limited my spotlight search to contacts and applications and reboote my phone. The problem seems to have gone away and I can finally work my phone with ease.
Give this a try until Apple get their act together and roll out iOS 8.1.2.
P.S - Restarting your iPhone or your iPad is NECESSARY after you've limited your options in the spotlight menu.
P.S.S - I'm not sure if this will work for those with the same issue on their iPads but it's worth a try

Same issue, Spotlight not working as it did, on my iPhone 5S and iPad 3 after 8.1.1. Very frustrating, I'm beginning to think I should do as a Windows user and avoid updates because Apple's QA has really become terrible. Every release is full of bugs, way more so than in the past. I used to look forward to updates, not any more. Wow, sad. I've done a restore but the problem comes back, Apple needs to fix this issue and maybe take some of it's billions and invest back in quality. Please.

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