February 7, 2011

New Search Controls In the App Store On iPad

New App Store controls on iPad let you fluidly refocus and fine-tune your searching experience as you go. They appear across the top of the page whenever you use the search box and you can then use them to tune your search by Release Date, Customer Rating, Price (Free or Paid), and Device (iPad, iPhone, All), and choose whether the results will be sorted by Relevance (the default), Most Popular, Release Date, or Customer Rating. You can also change categories, and if you select the Game category a Subcategory tab will appear so you can choose among 19 different game types ranging from Action to Word. You can change the filters on the fly, and use the Clear All button to reset them all and start over.