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Q: The Search function is not working in new El Capitan Notes.

Any one else having problems with the Search function in the El Capitan Notes? I search for an entry which I know exists in Notes but the Search function fails to find it. I can scroll through my Notes and find the entry I want, but Search can't find it. Why?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 4:20 AM

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  • by nape,Helpful

    nape nape Oct 5, 2015 9:08 AM in response to adriangriffiths
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    Oct 5, 2015 9:08 AM in response to adriangriffiths

    I'm having the same problem. I upgraded my IMac to El Capitan & my iphonen6plus & iPad Air to IOS 9.0.2.

    SInce tthese upgrades when I do a search for a specific word in notes on my iMac it doesn't identify all the notes

    that contain the word (only some of the notes). When I do the same search on iPhone & iPad all the notes that

    contain that search word do appear.

  • by adriangriffiths,

    adriangriffiths adriangriffiths Oct 5, 2015 9:11 AM in response to nape
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    Oct 5, 2015 9:11 AM in response to nape

    Thanks for this. I checked and found that the search also works perfectly on my IOS 9.02 iPad and iPhone but still not on my MacBook Pro with El Capitan.

  • by samthebear,

    samthebear samthebear Oct 7, 2015 1:56 AM in response to adriangriffiths
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    Oct 7, 2015 1:56 AM in response to adriangriffiths

    Just logged on to find a fix for this - search in Notes on El Capitan is broken. Is there an easy way to feed this back to Apple so they fix it?

  • by wht1,Helpful

    wht1 wht1 Oct 8, 2015 2:14 PM in response to samthebear
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    Oct 8, 2015 2:14 PM in response to samthebear

    Hi All

     

    John sorted searching out for me but I'm not sure how to link to his advice !

     

    Have a look in this same forum section on Notes at (if the link works)

     

    Re: Cannot search Notes "normally" in El Capitan as I could with Yosemite

     

    Good luck !

     

    Bill

  • by certman,

    certman certman Jan 4, 2016 4:58 AM in response to adriangriffiths
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    Jan 4, 2016 4:58 AM in response to adriangriffiths

    I posted this in another thread and I am doing so here due to the nature of the issue...

     

    Just a quick add-on to what appears to be a bug not only in El Capitan...

     

    Perhaps code in El Capitan is causing this problem, but I  did not experience the search failure in El Capitan, nor did I have a problem on two different iPads.  Just my iPhone.

     

    On my iPhone (6P) with iOS 9.2 I could not find many different notes with the Notes search function.  I noticed the El Capitan solution of deleting the notes and adding them back here and decided to try a variation on my iPhone. 

    Instead of deleting the notes, I used the "Move All" feature in iOS and moved them to a temp folder.  I then moved them back to the Notes folder under my iCloud account and search is working once again.

     

    Bizarre to say the least... The absence of this problem in various Google searches confused me.

     

    BTW, I have over 600 notes and noticed that editing a note did indeed put it back in the search results, but doing a minor edit on that many notes was not appealing; so glad the move and move back worked.

  • by LenTS,

    LenTS LenTS Mar 20, 2016 10:12 PM in response to adriangriffiths
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    Mar 20, 2016 10:12 PM in response to adriangriffiths

    OK, after enabling all types of search in Spotlight, disabling spotlight and reenabling it on the drives, causing spotlight to reindex everything, I could then delete notes and put them back on a folder by folder basis and the search would work.