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spotlight

  1. Shawzborne

    General iOS 9.3 beta 4 Spotlight installed(not App Store) app search broken

    Hi Everyone, Once again here is a big issue with iOS 9 at the moment (for me anyway until we see the polls) is spotlight search. iOS 9.3 beta 4 Spotlight app search is slow for locating 1st party apps such as Phone app Contacts app, Reminders app. For 3rd party apps such as (Snapchat...
  2. A

    Spotlight-induced performance problems

    This is a sort of 'to-whom-it-may-concern post, as I think I have identified the cause and solution to a problem that started with El Capitan on my machines (1). The symptoms are: UserEventAgent, cfprefsd, and mds_stores all use unusually high amounts of CPU time. There is a constant...