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Oct 12, 2015 1:43 PM in response to Ted413by angioal,I Have tried syncing with gmail and iCloud. Same problem with both.
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Oct 13, 2015 9:21 AM in response to KobiWby davidfromholladay,I am experiencing the same thing on my iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 9.0.2. ALSO, Spotlight Search will not find iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) file nor folder names.
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Oct 13, 2015 3:50 PM in response to KobiWby Ted413,This is indeed a very weird bug. Without any changes in phone settings during the last 3 days, the wrong behavior of spotlight search appeared and disappeared over the day.
In the morning spotlight search was not showing contacts, over the day it showed contacts, now again it is not showing contacts. Very strange.
The only changes that I could think of are the addition of new contacts and updating of some contacts by the means of sync with the Gmail account. I'm just guessing, but I think that after contacts are synced and changes are found, spotlight search reindexes the contacts. Having over 2400 contacts, reindexing might take a while to very long time. I now believe that during reindex the spotlight search simply skip searching in contacts. With fewer contacts and fewer changes inside contacts, reindex is probably fast and the user doesn't have the chance to see the bug in action. That might be an explanation of why not every iOS 9 user have this problem.
Considering the above situation, please post the number of contacts that you have (a round figure) so maybe we can find the pattern for the bug.
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Oct 13, 2015 3:55 PM in response to Ted413by tyfromhagerstown,1500 ish contacts.
Applying the the same theory to calendars...I have 4 calendars with several years of events.
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Oct 13, 2015 4:13 PM in response to tyfromhagerstownby Will Turner1,2000 contacts roughly. However Contacts does not show in search results as a separate section on my phone, no matter what. Occasionally top hits will show contacts, but there is no distinct Contact section of the search results. This is true even in the morning, when I haven't edited for a long time and have left the phone charging on wifi, and now when I am on LTE and have just edited a contact. iCloud and Google both.
I can make it appear by resetting everything and only turning on contacts, but even this drastic action only works for about an hour.
Also, I really wish we cold sort the list. It returns useless info so frequently. I've submitted the bug reports. Anyone on 9.1b4+ who can let us know if it occurs there?
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Oct 20, 2015 11:43 AM in response to KobiWby thedogwalker,Sorry, but I'm having the same trouble - the biggest problem for me is that I have a recruitment business with 19,000 contacts in the phone ! This bug could be very expensive..
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Oct 21, 2015 6:24 AM in response to Ted413by RickMcCourt,I agree. It is infuriating to search for a contact's name like "Jim" and get search hits for web sites and music and other crap that they want me to buy.
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Oct 21, 2015 6:28 AM in response to RickMcCourtby tyfromhagerstown,You can turn off those features under setting - general - spotlight Search.
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Oct 22, 2015 1:21 AM in response to tyfromhagerstownby racer84,I've installed IOS 9.1 yesterday. So far, spotlight search seems to be OK.
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Oct 22, 2015 2:54 AM in response to racer84by tyfromhagerstown,iOS 9.1 installed here and spotlight's results are still limited.
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Oct 26, 2015 3:44 AM in response to KobiWby atbat,to me its not so much that it doesnt search contacts. It's that it shows only two or three random ones! If I need to search "john", before it would retrieve all the johns, now it only retrieves two, out of the 50 I need!! so annoying. can we keep the iphone working as a phone or do we need to buy a separate phone and keep the iphone as a tablet???
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Oct 30, 2015 7:41 AM in response to KobiWby themagicacorn,I called Apple - go to settings, general, then reset (at the very bottom), then reset all settings. This won't erase any data only reset to default settings (so you will lose wallpaper & brightness but that's it). It worked and fixed other issues too!
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Nov 6, 2015 2:36 PM in response to KobiWby ces69jen,I have the same stinking problem. What I found most odd is how it "suddenly" starts working again.
Example: I search for Jennifer....no hit. I scroll down to Jennifer then back up to the top. search for Jennifer again...immediate result.
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Apple, fix it please.