Is There a Way to Show You Eight Apps?

I find that to be very useful a lot of the time. I have it expanded so it shows eight apps. And I feel like a surprising amount of time, the app that I want is there. It still drives me crazy that if you start typing, there's no way to stop iOS from like searching the web for current headlines and articles. Could you turn off news as an input? But yeah, it will also search for like random web pages.