Spotlight search intermittently not working.

[snerkler]

Quite often when I type in something in the spotlight search nothing happens, i.e. it doesn't bring up a list of suggestions/locations for files etc, I have to try it 3 or 4 times and then eventually the window comes up with the suggestions, however sometimes it works first time. Does anyone know what's causing this and how to fix it please?

I have an M1 Max Macbook Pro running OS Monterey 12.6.3.

 

[TriciaMacMillan]

There are issues in Monterey with regard to Spotlight that have been resolved in Ventura, but unfortunately Apple did not care to backport the fixes to Monterey.

The work-around is to force-kill the Spotlight process (don’t remember its name, not at my Mac right now).

 

[snerkler]

There are issues in Monterey with regard to Spotlight that have been resolved in Ventura, but unfortunately Apple did not care to backport the fixes to Monterey.

The work-around is to force-kill the Spotlight process (don’t remember its name, not at my Mac right now).

Thanks, I'm not sure what the force-kill thing is but I assume the obvious solution is to use Ventura but I'm reluctant as I'm not sure all of my Plug-Ins for Logic Pro work on Ventura. I guess I could try and then if they don't then reinstall Monterey via a time machine back up?

 

[bogdanw]

I have an M1 Max Macbook Pro running OS Monterey 12.6.3.

You should update to 12.6.5. I have it on two Macs (Intel & Apple Silicon), no problems with Spotlight on either.

 

[snerkler]

You should update to 12.6.5. I have it on two Macs (Intel & Apple Silicon), no problems with Spotlight on either.

Thanks I'll give it a go but I've had issues since day one, I can't actually remember which OS my Macbook was shipped with but I think it was Monterey 🤔. I've also had an intermittent issue with the cursor, I wonder if that might be solved by Ventura too.