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iOS 14 Spotlight Search not showing apps and contacts
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I have been dealing with this problem ever since loading IOS 14 Beta 2. Today I found this thread. I had tried every other solution except wiping my phone and restoring. I was just about to do such but found this thread. Thank goodness I did. I just deleted 20-30 apps and now Spotlight works! I can find apps and contacts and all now. Hallelujah! Thanks all for your comments.
Figured out a way for anyone with a Mac: Mac Configurator > Actions > Export > Info > Device Information > Installed Apps.
My total is 1,699 (of which 1,157 are offloaded)...
Good to hear that this is working for people, I'll give it a go.
EDIT: As with many others, the 14.0.1 update fixed this issue for me. Quite surprised that Apple patched this so quickly, but very pleased. Interestingly, didn't see any mention of it in the release notes.
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I’ve just tried it on my iPad mini and this update seems to have fixed the issue
same here , no apps are founded, region language change, new app toogle search de re activation , less then 100app restarts hours of time of my precious life, none is working. Time to take some big resolutions in front of this new slavery
After the 14.0.1 update specifically on my phone, the search was completely non functional, no results would return.
Just did a quick power down in the normal way and it was all working after the restart, including apps and contacts
Just did a quick power down in the normal way and it was all working after the restart, including apps and contacts
Yes, they FINALLY fixed it! I can now tell my friends and family to update their iPhone to iOS 14.0.1
Wait several minutes after update. Index will build soon.
ios 14.0.1 is great update for spotlight !!The problem now fix.
Awesome stuff guys! Glad to hear that both my suggestion as well as iOS 14.0.1 has been fixing this issue for some of you guys. It’s a strange yet refreshing feeling for me to be starting over....
I have one more thought to share upon reading the responses of those who had my suggestion of deleting some apps fix this issue for them. In regards to there being a “maximum” of some sort in place for apps/indexing of Spotlight: Does anyone else recall (or did you notice) reaching a certain # of pages of apps before you maxed out?
Around a week or two ago (before iOS 14) I had reached the point of having so many pages of apps on my phone (again) that I was going to one by one load them into folders so I can condense the number of pages.....but when I started at the last page and started moving apps into folders, more and more apps would just appear. What I came to notice was that it was exactly what you guys are sayingc where at the least, my Home Screen (many pages worth of Home Screen) had maxed out.
I know we have been talking about it in terms of Spotlight and indexing, but I think there’s many levels to it where at some point they just simply had to max you out with the way iOS internals were structured...how many pages could I really expect to be able to just have apps lined up top to bottom? Now with iOS 14, we SHOULD be able to load an infinite number of apps if we’re talking along these lines of some sort of hidden “cap” or maximum.
hmmmm...this has been a very interesting experience overall. Very happy that our discussion has found the ears of others and has been helpful!
I have one more thought to share upon reading the responses of those who had my suggestion of deleting some apps fix this issue for them. In regards to there being a “maximum” of some sort in place for apps/indexing of Spotlight: Does anyone else recall (or did you notice) reaching a certain # of pages of apps before you maxed out?
Around a week or two ago (before iOS 14) I had reached the point of having so many pages of apps on my phone (again) that I was going to one by one load them into folders so I can condense the number of pages.....but when I started at the last page and started moving apps into folders, more and more apps would just appear. What I came to notice was that it was exactly what you guys are sayingc where at the least, my Home Screen (many pages worth of Home Screen) had maxed out.
I know we have been talking about it in terms of Spotlight and indexing, but I think there’s many levels to it where at some point they just simply had to max you out with the way iOS internals were structured...how many pages could I really expect to be able to just have apps lined up top to bottom? Now with iOS 14, we SHOULD be able to load an infinite number of apps if we’re talking along these lines of some sort of hidden “cap” or maximum.
hmmmm...this has been a very interesting experience overall. Very happy that our discussion has found the ears of others and has been helpful!
Did you try the other idea of deleting a bunch of apps and seeing if that fixes it? Looking like a large number of people had one or the other (deleting apps or iOS 14.0.1) do the trick.
I just installed 14.0.1 and that resolved the issue with search not showing apps as suggestions. 🙂
Did you try the reboot, changing location etc tips as well?
What I habe heard the most issues are solved with the 14.01 release regaring spotlight.