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  1. Boneslasher

    Search field in System Settings app not working after update to 15.1

    Hello, Two days ago I have updated my M3 Max MBP from 14.7 to 15.1. Everything seems to be working smoothly except for one thing: the search field in the System Settings app returns no result, whatever I type. At least this was what I saw yesterday morning. Today, typing the first letter of my...
    • Boneslasher
    • Thread
    • apple silicon m3 max macos sequoia search field spotlight system settings update
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: macOS Sequoia (15)
  2. G

    Spotlight indexing enabled for all volumes after 15.1 update

    I turn off Spotlight indexing for many of my volumes, in particular my non-TM backup, movie stores, virtual machines. But, after the 15.1 update, Spotlight indexed was enabled for ALL volumes. A bit of a surprise. I have now disabled indexing and deleted the .Spotlight folders. Something to...
  3. J

    Spotlight issue on network share

    I have searched hi and lo to figure this out. Hoping against hope that someone can point out what the issue is. I have a simple network (iMac - ethernet 10g - Mac Mini) The MacMini has two external disk enclosures attached with one enclosure using JBOD and a few disks. Media_1 is an 18TB HDD...
  4. M

    Spotlight & Smart Folders Broken

    I need some help with a 2018 MacBook Air. 1.6 GHz Dual Core Intel i5. 8 GB RAM on Sonoma 14.4.1. A few weeks ago Spotlight & Smart Folders tied to an External Drive started having issues. I noticed that recent files added to folders in the hard drive weren’t appearing in Smart Folders as they...
  5. techfreak23

    Removing Touch Bar from Spotlight results

    mac mini 2018 running 13.4.1 using a magic keyboard 2 with number pad and a magic trackpad 2. I recently installed an app called Barrier to be able to use my mac keyboard and trackpad to control my PC. Since then I have been using spotlight to pull it up quickly but the stupid Touch Bar option...
  6. S

    MB 1,1-7,1 The Oddities of Spotlight & Dual Booting Certain Mac OS Versions

    Sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this kind of question in. If it is better suited elsewhere, feel free to move it. Hello, everyone! I have a question wrt Spotlight's settings. I actually triple boot 3 different versions of Mac OS on a 2010 unibody macbook: Snow Leopard, El Capitan, and...
    • signer-ink-beast
    • Thread
    • dualboot macos multiboot os 10 os x spotlight spotlight search spotlight separate settings spotlight settings
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Early Intel Macs
  7. Pigstick21

    iPhone Document Scan not Spotlight Searchable

    Just started to use my iPhone (15+) to scan documents (using the Scan Documents option in Files), save to iCloud and then open on my MacMini. It seemed to work really well. However, I have found that .pdf contents are not searchable by Spotlight when I do this. If I open Preview and then scan...
  8. RazorBackXX

    Using Spotlight to do all my safari searching possible?

    is this possible with raycast or Alfred or even spotlight? I love the spotlight & im sick of opening safari, call me lazy sure but I wanna know if its possible to type in what I want to look for in spotlight then press enter or whatever button is programmed & then take me to a list of searches...
    • RazorBackXX
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    • macbook safari search bar spotlight spotlight search
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS
  9. howdytom

    Please delete my post

    Please delete my post
  10. B

    How to disable web search in Spotlight? (MacOS Sonoma 14.0)

    I hate web search in Spotlight. I hate the concept, I don't want to see it, I have never and will never use it so it just gets in the way. If I want to search on the web, I'll open a browser and search there. See image 1, where an intrusive suggestion to search on the web is the first...
  11. nxt3

    Hide Apple Maps search results from Spotlight

    If I’m searching for a place in Spotlight, it will show Apple Maps search results. Is there a way to hide these results? I don’t have the app installed but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.
    • nxt3
    • Thread
    • ios spotlight
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: iOS 17
  12. purdnost

    Unable to Toggle Settings from Spotlight

    I have been seeing videos of users toggling settings from Spotlight. Typing “Settings,” for example, brings up a list of settings that can be toggled. Likewise, typing specific settings like “Bluetooth“ should also work, but I just get a link that opens the setting from the Settings app, there...
    • purdnost
    • Thread
    • ios 17 search settings spotlight
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: iOS 17
  13. P

    When I type search bar opens

    I have tried everything from new/changing web browsers to restoring default keyboard shortcuts. I feel like its malware but when I scan the scans come back clean. I feel like it is also a simple fix in my settings that I somehow changed by accident. it is driving me crazy. here are pictures of...
  14. danev375

    Curious if your Mac OS version's Spotlight search returns results from within Library/Preferences?

    Recently searched for a file known to be in ~/Library/Preferences/ (while in OS 10.15), and got no results. Same in 10.11. (But worked in 10.6.) Files within other "system" folders can be located, and results were always set to "include System Files" and "Visible OR Invisible" and standard...
    • danev375
    • Thread
    • spotlight spotlight index system
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: macOS
  15. C

    External drive indexes, but then seems to lose 90% of the search-ability of the index.

    Hi all, Anyone experienced spotlight indexing (just fine) but after a short period of time, seemingly rolling back the index and say 250 folders where pulling in a search, its now only pulling 2 folders? Setup: M2 MacMini 512GB HD with 16GB ram with Samsung 870 QVO 4 TB SATA (also tried with...
  16. W

    MBP M1 - unresponsive, Spotlight issues, strange CPU spikes

    Hi, since a few days my M1 MBP shows several symptoms of performance reduction. In general the UI is laggy, the mouse cursor shows intermittent stops, scrolling in Safari stops for about half a second and continues afterwards. Furthermore the Spotlight search prompt disappears after 1-2...
    • Woyzeck
    • Thread
    • cpu consumption laggy ui mpb spotlight
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: macOS
  17. luckman212

    Safari.app missing from Spotlight search - Ventura 13.2.1 (22D68)

    I rebuilt my Spotlight index the other day, and after it was rebuilt, I noticed Safari.app is no longer appearing when searching "Safari" in Spotlight. The app is there in /Applications but I note that it's a symlink pointing to ../System/Cryptexes/App/System/Applications/Safari.app Also...
  18. M

    Spotlight searches limited to external drives

    Whatever I do, Spotlight won't search my internal drive. It has no problem searching into any of my externals, but there is no results at all coming from the internal. Wether I specify to look only within Macintosh HD, or don't specify a location to look into at all, none of my files located on...
    • Martinpa
    • Thread
    • hard disk drive internal spotlight
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: macOS
  19. A

    Spotlight not finding Applications

    Sometime in the past week I noticed that spotlight on my Mac wasn't finding anything in /Applications. I have a 2017 MBP 13 inch and I have two bootable volumes, one with Mac OS 10.15.7 Catalina and one with Mac OS 13.2 Ventura. Oddly enough, this problem effects both OS when booted. I've tried...
    • asus389
    • Thread
    • catalina mac os 10.15.7 mac os 13.2 spotlight ventura
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: macOS
  20. M

    Spotlight safari searching issue.

    Hi, guys I have problem that can't fix. Watching tons of videos in yt and reading threads in other forums and websites. Before when I pressed cmd + spacebar then type my query and press enter, Mac starting to search in safari( if it wasn't app or something like this), now it didn't working...
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