Searching for Exact Phrase with Quotation Marks Not Working in iOS 10.3

[luvmyc6 46]

I am not able to find matches on an exact phrase when searching on iOS device (iPad 10.5 with latest version) using EN 10.3. Using quotation marks around the phrase does not work as expected. For example, a search for "texture foam stamp" finds Notes with all three words anywhere in them, but does not narrow the results to only those with an exact match to the phrase of the three words together in the sequence specified. So I get the same number of results for the search criteria, no matter if quotes are used or not.

I did a search of the forums and did not see this issue documented for the 10.x code base.

[Snyderville 0]

I submitted a ticket for this because it was driving me crazy. I'm on an iPhone but this did work for me, so I wanted to share:

Go to iOS Settings > General > Keyboard and disable "Smart punctuation"
 

If this fixes your problem, and they are aware of the issue and are working on it.