• iOS 26 support If you are having problems with Samurai Search or PDF search in particular, please let me know. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Searches of large PDF files (>30Mb) is limited to a single worker thread. • More conservative memory limits are now applied before the app pauses to recover memory. • A warning is now always issued when enabling PDF search that memory growth may crash the app. • Bookmark deletion whilst searching is disabled. If you are having problems with Samurai Search or PDF search in particular, please let me know.  If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Fixed rare crash while highlighting text or url. • Now supporting only iOS 16 or later. PLEASE NOTE: PDF searches can be very demanding on CPU and memory, and are the source of the majority of crashes. As Apple's PDFKit is largely a black box, there isn't much I can do reduce the likelihood of crashes. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Improved URL trailing punctuation handling. • Minor speed optimisation to plain text file reader. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Bookmark info popover had stopped working. Reinstated. • When detecting URLs, ignore trailing punctation. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• URL handling popup menu now works with all sizes of iPad views. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Tapping a highlighted URL now provides options for handling (open, copy, share). If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Enabling the Show URLs option will underline any matched URLs in search output. They are tappable. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Dark and tinted icons. • Light and dark splash screen. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Minor tidy up of menus to save space. • If a filename pattern is supplied, and "Show All Files Searched" is set. All searched files can be previewed. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Feedback is really useful to help guide development of new features. So please send me an email with your ideas/requests/issues.

NEW • Optionally search PDF metadata (Title, Author, Subject, Creator, Producer, CreationDate, ModDate, Keywords). Can restrict search to metadata only. FIXED • Accessing a SMB share that is unavailable can lead to a very long delay. Display now indicates "Loading Files & Folders ..." during the timeout. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Feedback is really useful to help guide development of new features. So please send me an email with your ideas/requests/issues.

FIXED • Crash when deleting a custom file type whilst focus was on another. • Errors in accessing saved file/folder at launch not being displayed. • Access for file preview for network folders. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Feedback is really useful to help guide development of new features. So please send me an email with your ideas/requests/issues.

Spit and polish edition. IMPROVED • updating saved file/folder bookmark names • updating custom file types • layout of Font settings • folder icon and folder type identification NOTE • can now add DropBox folders for searching (with latest DropBox update). If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. I rely on feedback to help guide development of new features. Please send me an email with your ideas or requests.

FIXED • Cursor jumping to end of line when editing middle of search string. CHANGED • Improved progress display when downloading from iCloud. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. I rely on feedback to help guide development of new features. Please send me an email with your ideas or requests.

NEW • Specify search target files by supplying a filename pattern (overrides the file type selection mechanism). • Help text summary for search regular expression and filename pattern. • Skip subdirectories option (permitting search of the top level directory only). CHANGED • Show Line Numbers acts immediately on results. • Disabled options are grayed out. FIXED • Crash on going into background from navigated views (i.e. not main view). If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. I rely on feedback to help guide development of new features. Please send me an email with your ideas or requests.

• Quicklook preview of matched files on clicking the eye icon. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Improve font setting layout. • Fix display of newly added bookmark icons. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Fix position of section breaks when showing context. • Improved: layout of show context option, welcome message. • Fix display after selection from search history. • Added Appearance setting. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Further efficiency improvements. • Context size is now configurable. If you find Samurai Search useful, please leave a review. Suggestions? Please send me an email.

• Further improvements to matched line highlighting. • Improved bookmark icons for files.

• Improved the matched line highlighting mechanism. It now handles large numbers of matches on extremely long lines. Using new swift features - so now iOS 15.0 or later.

• Removed the line length limit. Please let me know if this causes any issues for your use case. Detecting impending resource exhaustion is difficult.

Minor change • Fix email subject with Help/Request Support.

• Forward compatibility updates.

• Ready for iOS 17.0

• Show context option for plain text files. • Updated supported content types.

• Add individual files as well as directories for searching. • If the files are plain text, they will be searched by default. If they are PDF, PDF Search needs to be enabled. Please let me know if there are features you would like, or you have any issues with Samurai Search. Also, if you experience crashes with PDF search - please let me know.

• Internal efficiency tweaks. Please let me know if there are features you would like, or you have any issues with Samurai Search. Also, if you experience crashes with PDF search - please let me know.

• If memory becomes low (typically during PDF search), searching will pause to allow memory to be freed. • Status display indicates search progress and when waiting for memory. • Some minor improvements to the user interface. Please let me know if there are features you would like, or you have any issues with Samurai Search. Also, if you experience crashes with PDF search - please let me know your hardware specs.

• Export search results disabled until complete. • Matched text is now colored for visibility.  • File related errors always appear in results. • Extended the fonts available for display of results. Please let me know if there are features you would like, or you have any issues with Samurai Search.

• Search Results are now sorted by search folder and filename. • Save Search Results button exports a plaintext copy of the search results. • Reinstated support of iOS 14.0. • Search text field scrolls horizontally on iOS 15 and iOS 16 Please let me know if there are features you would like, or you have any issues with this app.

• Fixed font settings option display on iOS 16. • Moved search button to allow more space for search text. On iOS 16 search text will scroll horizontally. Please let me know if there are features you would like, or you have issues with this app.

• Rate/Review now opens app store on appropriate page. Please try it! :-) Please contact me if you have any comments, issues or suggestions. Thank you. Michael

• Restored search performance (lost in last update). • Online help (see More Options). Please contact me if you have any comments, issues or suggestions. Thank you. Michael

• Resolved Download iCloud Files issues. • Improved status and error messages. Please contact me if you have any comments, issues or suggestions. Thank you. Michael

• Search folders that disappear now generate an error message (on startup or when folders are changed). • PDF search results correctly display matches across line boundaries. • PDF search option moved to front. • Improved warning messages. NOTE: Download iCloud Files sometimes can't see the files it needs to download.   Restarting the app and running again often helps. Under investigation. Please contact me if you have any comments, issues or suggestions. Thank you. Michael

• Fixed unnecessary auto-toggle of Download iCloud FIles. • Moved the Status field up so it is easier to see. . Please contact me if you have any comments, issues or suggestions. Thank you. Michael

• Resolved issue with Search Folder editing. • Improved Search Folder info view on iPhone. • Distinguish between SMB/USB and other Removable Drive Folders. Please contact me if you have any comments, issues or suggestions. Thank you. Michael

• Improved speed and reliability of iCloud file downloading. Please let me know if you have any comments, issues or suggestions. Thank you. Michael