When reading blogs and news articles or traversing the internet for finding cool websites, often we find the need to locate a particular word or phrase on the webpage. But there’s no obvious way to do this, and hence, people spend an excessive amount of time manually scrolling the webpage and looking for the phrase. What if I told you there is not one but two ways to perform text searches on webpages on the iPhone and iPad?
As I said, there are two methods that you can use to perform text searches on websites on the iPhone and iPad. And this is not a new feature. It has existed since iOS 9. So whether you are using older iOS versions or the latest iOS 14, here is how to do it.
- Perform Text Search on Webpage Using Share Menu
- Perform Text Search on Webpage Using Address Bar
Perform Text Search on Webpage Using Share Menu
For the first method, we are going to use the Share menu on the iPhone.
Perform Text Search on Webpage Using Address Bar
This method is also as easy as the previous one and works the same way. So, you only need to remember one of them.
- Again, use the arrows to jump between the previous and next occurrence of the query. You can also tap inside the box to change the query.
As you can see, it’s pretty easy to search for text on the iPhone and iPad. You don’t even need to remember a keyboard shortcut like you do on Mac. Just tap on the share button or the URL bar and type in your query.
