Searching a single word in iOS

Rod Bergen
Rod Bergen Member Posts: 251
edited November 21 in English Forum

I tried to search for the word "sufficiency" on my iPad but find that all variations of the word are included.

Is there any way to shut this off and ONLY search for the actual word that I entered?

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  • Todd Phillips
    Todd Phillips Member Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭

    Is there any way to shut this off and ONLY search for the actual word that I entered?

    No.  And it drives me crazy that they haven't enhanced searching in such a long time.

    MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540

  • Rod Bergen
    Rod Bergen Member Posts: 251

    No.  And it drives me crazy that they haven't enhanced searching in such a long time.

    Thanks!  If they just allowed us to do wildcard searches so that one could restrict a search to a specific word that would be great. As it is the search function is virtually useless. 
  • Dave Dunkin (Logos)
    Dave Dunkin (Logos) Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,043

    I tried to search for the word "sufficiency" on my iPad but find that all variations of the word are included.

    Is there any way to shut this off and ONLY search for the actual word that I entered?

    Prefix the term with a +, e.g. +sufficiency, to get exact matches.

  • Todd Phillips
    Todd Phillips Member Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭

    I tried to search for the word "sufficiency" on my iPad but find that all variations of the word are included.

    Is there any way to shut this off and ONLY search for the actual word that I entered?

    Prefix the term with a +, e.g. +sufficiency, to get exact matches.

    Thanks.  Is that a new feature?  I don't remember it being discussed before.

    MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540

  • Dave Dunkin (Logos)
    Dave Dunkin (Logos) Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,043

    Is that a new feature?

    It looks like the current behavior of + was introduced in 5.2 of the desktop code, so it would have become available on mobile shortly after that shipped.