I'm experiencing some keyboard lag on my NSPredicate search: some code: - (void)filterContentForSearchText:(NSString*)searchText scope:(NSString*)scope { NSPredicate *resultPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"(head beginswith[c] %@) OR (pro beginswith[c] %@) OR (searchableStringValue beginswith[c] %@)", searchText, searchText, searchText]; searchResults = [chengduhua filteredArrayUsingPredicate:resultPredicate]; } &&&& -(BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller shouldReloadTableForSearchString:(NSString *)searchString { [self filterContentForSearchText:searchString scope:[[self.searchDisplayController.searchBar scopeButtonTitles] objectAtIndex:[self.searchDisplayController.searchBar selectedScopeButtonIndex]]]; return YES; }