The Search screen - is it getting much use?

[Slip Jigs]

When this feature was first released, I actually found it annoying because often I would flip back to my first page and then go one to far to the search screen. I just thought it wasn't valuable enough to be where it is.

Then I decided to try it out to find contacts - the usual way was a pain, trying to find the contact icon, then the group, etc etc. The search worked great, taking me right to where I wanted to be after typing in only 3 or 4 letters.

I'm interested to know how others are using this feature, maybe I can get some ideas to make it more useful to me other than contact searching.

 

[dukebound85]

i never use it

 

[Surely]

i never use it

dits

 

[iLeoMarc]

...I actually found it annoying because often I would flip back to my first page and then go one to far to the search screen...

I find it easier if you press the home button, wait a second and press it a second time to get to search screen. I also mostly use it to launch applications (though I think it can be improved). Imagine more advance options like linking key words to certain apps. Where you can type "games" and all the games that keyword is linked to will show up.

 

[Pixellated]

I can only say I've used it about 6 times since I updated. And it gets in the way of the otherwise smooth iPhone home screen with it's laggy self.

 

[Snide]

Couldn't live without it

With Universal Search and SpotBright installed, it is indispensable.

 

[Tres]

I've never used it, I find by the time I switch to it and start typing to find something, I could have just opened up the app I'm looking for already.

 

[solideliquid]

The search is super fast on the 3GS. I use it constantly, especially when I don't feel like swiping to my fifth page of apps. I'm considering switching my double home button click from camera to search in fact.

 

[Ntombi]

I use it all the time. Literally several times a day.

I use it to launch any app that's not on the first or second page, to find any contact that's not in my favorites, to find a specific e-mail, etc. It's one of my favorite things about 3.0. That and copy/paste.

 

[lollicup]

I would much rather prefer a "favorites actions menu" ( sony erricson has this )

you could put your favorite website/programs/contact/ option settings/etc all on one screen.. even room for a search bar if you wanted

 

[mavis]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3GS (White, 32GB): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16)

I've never used it, I find by the time I switch to it and start typing to find something, I could have just opened up the app I'm looking for already.

Yup, same here. I strongly dislike it, as a matter of fact.

 

[EarthDawn]

while I have not used it much either when i have used it.... it works well and does not bother me having its own screen.

Landscape I do find annoying in text... I always seem to set it off when i put my phone down while leaving the text screen open.

 

[JadedBen]

I never USE it, only tried it a couple times, i just prefer to flick/ scroll to the app/ contact i want.

The swiping to the right to access it doesn't bother me, but the clicking the home button once to get it does, i'd rather be able to set that as an extra shortcut to something, much like the double click.

Do we really need 2 ways to access it on the same home screen?

 

[Dominat0r]

hardly ever...but i guess i kinda would miss it if it were gone =)

 

[yellow]

Good question.. I tried it once after 3.0 (on an iPT) came out and I've never used it since.

 

[davyreins]

I hardly use it. But, I agree with others that it is nice to have

 

[FXT 1]

Is the search screen getting much use?!?!?!

Of course, couldn't live without it now. Especially when I had 11+ pages of apps.

Yes, some apps were off the home screen.

You really think I flick through endless pages of apps

 

[Small White Car]

It works well on my wife's 3GS. I can see its usefulness there.

On my 3G it tends to be slower than actually going and finding things manually, so I rarely use it.

 

[jmann]

I never use it.

 

[Ferris23]

I use it, when I swipe to it rather than my home screen. I wish I could disable it.

Maybe I can disable it on Sept 25th.

 

[intrepid00]

It promised to search everywhere, it doesn't. Hence it's uselessness. It is only handy to find apps on springboard till you sort of remember where you put them. That is mostly because springboard sucks at finding your apps.

 

[cellocello]

I'd use it more if it could search txt history and phone numbers and such.

 

[abijnk]

I use it all the time. Literally several times a day.

I use it to launch any app that's not on the first or second page, to find any contact that's not in my favorites, to find a specific e-mail, etc. It's one of my favorite things about 3.0. That and copy/paste.

I'm the same way. I love being able to launch apps that are buried way back in the pages.

 

[GoCubsGo]

I'm the same way. I love being able to launch apps that are buried way back in the pages.

Never thought of that, I just may finally use it.

 

[mkrishnan]

I use it several times a week, typically to find e-mails when I'm not 100% sure which account they're in.