how can i bring search bar back to top on all apps in ios26 update

IdrisSeabright wrote:

vdogg78 wrote:

And, yes, I have sent a feature request to Apple, so the annoying participants in Apple discussions can move on and not waste their time telling me this forum doesn’t get read my Apple.

It's really unfortunate that the fact that we are not mind readers is causing you so much annoyance. So sorry.

Post of the day, right there!! 😉

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Do you remember ResEdit? You could do all sorts of modifications to your Mac. Lots of fun until you did something you didn't quite understand and then.... hopefully, you had a good back up.

I have a 3rd party resource/property editor, that I use once or twice a year.

Nice thought. Poor argument. iOS is based on Linux, as have all Apple OS’s for a couple of decades now. So is Android for that matter. Most OS kernels these days…

Also, if you actually knew how iOS renders these components, you’d know it’s not tricky or difficult. It’s literally just a coordinate calculation for the location of the search bar element and the GUI backend knows how to render everything and move things. This is even more true with the way Liquid Glass is architected.

vincenzo_3 wrote:

Nice thought. Poor argument. iOS is based on Linux, as have all Apple OS’s for a couple of decades now. So is Android for that matter. Most OS kernels these days…

Also, if you actually knew how iOS renders these components, you’d know it’s not tricky or difficult. It’s literally just a coordinate calculation for the location of the search bar element and the GUI backend knows how to render everything and move things. This is even more true with the way Liquid Glass is architected.

Tell Apple what you'd like to see here:

Product Feedback - Apple

What anyone here thinks about how something is "architected" really doesn't matter. What matters is what Apple thinks. Only they can make a change.

I run 3 software businesses and if I were to make a change like moving search bar, I would certainly make it an option to change it back even if we were passionate it should move. but not to give the option to move it back to the top is mind blowing. When you have a huge community of pre-existing users using your software and you decide to improve it, you have to make things optional even if you decide that this is the way you wanted it to be for all your new users. Please can you follow this suit for all other upgrades? This ensures you have very Happy users who will keep using Software and not move to other platforms

Pacmanrules wrote:

I run 3 software businesses and if I were to make a change like moving search bar, I would certainly make it an option to change it back even if we were passionate it should move. but not to give the option to move it back to the top is mind blowing. When you have a huge community of pre-existing users using your software and you decide to improve it, you have to make things optional even if you decide that this is the way you wanted it to be for all your new users. Please can you follow this suit for all other upgrades? This ensures you have very Happy users who will keep using Software and not move to other platforms

You must be under the impression you are writing anyone at Apple, by posting here? You're not. This is a user to user only forum, which Apple neither participates nor reads for user feedback.

If you want to share your thoughts with Apple, use this link --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Pacmanrules wrote:

I run 3 software businesses and if I were to make a change like moving search bar, I would certainly make it an option to change it back even if we were passionate it should move. but not to give the option to move it back to the top is mind blowing. When you have a huge community of pre-existing users using your software and you decide to improve it, you have to make things optional even if you decide that this is the way you wanted it to be for all your new users. Please can you follow this suit for all other upgrades? This ensures you have very Happy users who will keep using Software and not move to other platforms

Does the customer base of all three of your companies combined come anywhere close to Apple's? How about your annual revenue? Have you considered the possibility that Apple knows what they're doing? That they have vast amounts of consumer usage data? That they have considered how many people might be unhappy and how many people won't be?

Readers of this thread may have noticed that the same question is asked over and over, and the same answers are posted over and over, even though the answer would be clear to anyone who read the thread they posted to before adding their comment. Unfortunately, from long experience it is clear that most new posts are from users who did NOT read the thread before posting, so the choice is to tell these new posters to read the thread, or to just answer again and again.

Of course, people who DO read the thread before posting usually don’t post, unless it is to add insight.

Mac Jim ID wrote:

Pacmanrules wrote:

I am complaining because I am a user, regardless if I am 1 of 30,000,000,000 users, and for Steve jobs, this was important... If any apple people read this please make those type of borderline important GUI changes optional. I have already posted this to apple via the link you highlighted.

Nope, none of us are Apple employees and for Apple to read your input, then you did the right thing by sending them Feedback directly. That is where your voice will be heard and has also worked in the past with the changes found in iOS 26.1. We cannot comment on the changes found in iOS 26.2 because it is still in beta, but you may have to wait and see if you find that helpful.

The points or being new to this support site is irrelevant when it comes to your views you want to express to Apple through the feedback link. The only relevance of the points is that it means they have helped other posters resolve an issue and others had also found it helpful by upvoting the post. It really means nothing more than that. I user with more points does not have any more influence on the Feedback sent to Apple, and it also does not mean they have any special or direct contacts with Apple.

I do find it odd when people bring up Steve Jobs when making some kind of claim that this would never happen under his leadership. You may not remember his famous quote that seems to apply to what you are saying. It was also just a year ago that iOS 18 was released and you can go back on this Support Site and find the same posts where people hated it and can't believe there were changes, and now, that is the one they liked the most. In fact, that is pretty typical of every update.

“Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”

--Steve Jobs

I really like this post! I too find it amazing when people channel Steve Jobs here. Steve didn't honestly care what people thought and it has been Apple's design philosophy to give us what Apple thinks we need. That's never going to change. It's the inability of some people who simply cannot adapt to change, which is amazing to me.

I just upgraded my iPad Pro 11 M1 to the new iPad Pro 11 M5. I not only had to buy a new Apple Pencil for it as it requires the new Apple Pencil Pro, but I also had to get a new Keyboard Case for it as what worked just fine with my M1 iPad Pro isn't compatible with the M5 iPad Pro. Things change and as human's who want to embrace the digital world, we too must adapt.

Helpful? When scrolling for something, the item will finally appear just above the search bar. When I tap the item it keeps registering a tap to the search bar. I find it irritating like many of the cosmetic changes that came with iOS 26 that we have no choice but accept.

Like the juvenile motions in messages and animated screen openings.

Buttertart wrote:

Helpful? When scrolling for something, the item will finally appear just above the search bar. When I tap the item it keeps registering a tap to the search bar. I find it irritating like many of the cosmetic changes that came with iOS 26 that we have no choice but accept.

Like the juvenile motions in messages and animated screen openings.

You know you can turn off the animations, right? Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Reduce Motion

I agree with this major point. It is not a matter of moving your finger to the bottom of the screen. It is a matter of finding it to begin with. As an older person who wears bifocals it is very difficult to find the search bar that is way below our vision level. also since it is on top of words from Apps instead of being in a clear space, it is very confusing. When you pick up your phone you are automatically looking toward the top of the phone. Wearing bifocals and having to move your head to a different position in order to just find the search bar is frustrating..

Fibrplnr wrote:

I agree with this major point. It is not a matter of moving your finger to the bottom of the screen. It is a matter of finding it to begin with. As an older person who wears bifocals it is very difficult to find the search bar that is way below our vision level. also since it is on top of words from Apps instead of being in a clear space, it is very confusing. When you pick up your phone you are automatically looking toward the top of the phone. Wearing bifocals and having to move your head to a different position in order to just find the search bar is frustrating..

I'm in my 70s, astigmatic and nearsighted. I wear glasses, which are bifocal (progressive) and have absolutely no issue seeing the search bar. If you're having issues seeing it with your current prescription, perhaps you need to visit your ophthalmologist.

its very simple: you scroll from the bottom up. Having the bar at the bottom is too close to the start of a scroll. The natural progression and clear separation of the two highly used tasks is to have the bar at the top.

Buttertart wrote:

its very simple: you scroll from the bottom up. Having the bar at the bottom is too close to the start of a scroll. The natural progression and clear separation of the two highly used tasks is to have the bar at the top.

Telling only other users what you believe is natural, gets you nothing here. This is a user to user only forum.

Feel to tell Apple what you think is natural here --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple