Spotlight blank iOS 8.1.1

Upgraded to 8.1 and Spotlight stopped working. Just came up with blank results. I tried the "sending an email to myself", not sure I did it right but it didn't fix it. Tried changing the order or search items still no luck. Had to turn the phone off before spotlight worked. Now upgraded to 8.1.1 and Spotlight broke again. Tried both fixes as before with no dice. Turned phone off and it partially worked (Bing but no app results) and now doesn't work again. Sound like Apple broke Spotlight or failed to put an "refresh" option to wake it up when it forgets to work. Can we please make sure the phone works before adding "features"?
I am using an iPhone 5S in case anyone has a fix for the issue. And yes I know this isn't universal. My wife's phone and iPad work just fine with Spotlight.

hey all I had a friend with the same issue it turns out he had that many apps there was no free spots on any of the home screens and so I got him to place all the apps into folders (there is a limit of 135 apps per folder) and then I got him to restart his phones/ipad and the issue was resolved I haven't heard any more from him about it, the biggest thing that threw my friend and I off when sorting out the issue was the fact the issue was present on 2 of his iphones and his ipad the reason for that was he had automatic app downloads turned on for those devices so for the most part all the apps he had downloaded on each device were on all the devices. another step you can take is go into settings general spotlight un tick all the spotlight options then restart your device then re tick all the spotlight options and do another restart which should rebuild the spotlight index hope this helps.

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1. Unfortunately is was removed in iOS 8 .
2. Unfortunately being a mobile O.S. means not all shortcuts may work or have a counterpart there.
3. I have no issues with Spotlight. Make sure you have the categories ordered the way you want to see them. As sometimes the App results may be below other result categories where you need to scroll further down. You can change this in Settings->General->Spotlight and drag the categories to the order you want them. For instance I have Apps at the top followed by Suggestions, and then Mail and then Contacts, and then everything else.
4. Again no real issues for me there.
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6. ---
7. It should work. What happens when you try?
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4. Again no real issues for me there.
5. ---
6. ---
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Once on the bugreporter page,
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Hugh, that is the way how easy it could be, isn't it?
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search for it: http://ios.wonderhowto.com/how-to/open-spotlight-search-ios-7-find-apps-contacts -music-and-more-0147422/ type Safari

My grandson played with my 4th generation iPod touch and the phone icon and contacts icon are gone. I have gone to settings and done the "reset all settings" and "reset home screen layout" with no success. I also did a hard reset. No luck. Help?

My grandson played with my 4th generation iPod touch and the phone icon and contacts icon are gone. I have gone to settings and done the "reset all settings" and "reset home screen layout" with no success. I also did a hard reset. No luck. I can get to my apps through the search screen but no icons.Help?

Try doing a Spotlight search for the Contacts app.
Read this for doing a search:
https://sites.google.com/site/appleclubfhs/support/advice-and-articles/spotlight -search/
(Skip to the section for Spotlight on iOS)
(Note that my links to other pages may promote my organization, and this should not be taken as an endorsement by Apple)

My 2yo erased the App Store. Can someone tell me how to restore it?

My son erased the App Store from the iPad. Can anyone tell me how to restore it?

You can't erase/delete the preinstalled apps like App Store.
You can do a Spotlight search.
iOS: Understanding Spotlight Search
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3636
 Cheers, Tom

Spotlight didn't show results (iOS 8.2)

I updated my iPad mini (16 GB no cellular) to iOS 8.2 and I still have the spotlight issue (results in blank, have had since iOS 8.1.1); but I noticed that the spotlight problem in iOS 8.2 is less frequent.
Is there a temporary fix for that?

I had this happen on my iPhone 6+, I restarted the device and spotlight started working again like normal

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