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Spotlight is unbelievable bad, especially on iOS. If I type a substring of the name of an installed app, it should find it effectively instantly (say, within 1
by amluto 2y ago
Spotlight is unbelievable bad, especially on iOS. If I type a substring of the name of an installed app, it should find it effectively instantly (say, within 1-2 frames of the input showing up). Instead, it finds it sometimes. On occasion I need to hit backspace (removing a letter that should match) to get it to find it.
I struggle to imagine the software design that works so poorly.
- DidYaWipe 2y agoFinder search is just as bad. You can be viewing a directory full of JPEGs, all with the jpg extension. Then you do a search for .jpg, and get NOTHING. But only sometimes. Other times it'll work.
- sph 2y agoI've yet to find a decent implementation of search-as-you-type anywhere, not just Spotlight. I have that same issue on Firefox, and with Windows Search, for example. And it makes no sense whatsoever. If "foo" matches "foobar", so should "foob". I honestly don't know how the hell can they still f up such a simple piece of technology in 2025.
- Nextgrid 2y agoWindows 7 start menu search was always reliable and had predictable behavior from my experience. It can be done, just that modern software engineers' skills and career incentives no longer permit it.
- SSLy 2y ago> I've yet to find a decent implementation of search-as-you-type anywhere https://www.voidtools.com/en-uk/support/everything/ https://www.voidtools.com/en-uk/support/everything/
- whywhywhywhy 2y agoSee this same search issue in everything these days for what was a solved problem a decade ago, what “best practice” is causing this