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Q: Spotlight doesn't search my contacts in iOS 9

Spotlight doesn't search my contacts in iOS 9 any help ??

iPhone 6, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 20, 2015 12:32 AM

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  • by angioal,

    angioal angioal Oct 12, 2015 1:43 PM in response to Ted413
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    Oct 12, 2015 1:43 PM in response to Ted413

    I Have tried syncing with gmail and iCloud. Same problem with both.

  • by tyfromhagerstown,

    tyfromhagerstown tyfromhagerstown Oct 12, 2015 3:24 PM in response to angioal
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    Oct 12, 2015 3:24 PM in response to angioal

    Everyone

    submit you complaints here

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

  • by davidfromholladay,

    davidfromholladay davidfromholladay Oct 13, 2015 9:21 AM in response to KobiW
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    Oct 13, 2015 9:21 AM in response to KobiW

    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.

  • by Ted413,

    Ted413 Ted413 Oct 13, 2015 3:50 PM in response to KobiW
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    Oct 13, 2015 3:50 PM in response to KobiW

    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.

  • by tyfromhagerstown,

    tyfromhagerstown tyfromhagerstown Oct 13, 2015 3:55 PM in response to Ted413
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    Oct 13, 2015 3:55 PM in response to Ted413

    1500 ish contacts.

     

    Applying the the same theory to calendars...I have 4 calendars with several years of events.

  • by Will Turner1,

    Will Turner1 Will Turner1 Oct 13, 2015 4:13 PM in response to tyfromhagerstown
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    Oct 13, 2015 4:13 PM in response to tyfromhagerstown

    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?

  • by thedogwalker,

    thedogwalker thedogwalker Oct 20, 2015 11:43 AM in response to KobiW
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    Oct 20, 2015 11:43 AM in response to KobiW

    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..

  • by RickMcCourt,

    RickMcCourt RickMcCourt Oct 21, 2015 6:24 AM in response to Ted413
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    Oct 21, 2015 6:24 AM in response to Ted413

    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. 

  • by tyfromhagerstown,

    tyfromhagerstown tyfromhagerstown Oct 21, 2015 6:28 AM in response to RickMcCourt
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    Oct 21, 2015 6:28 AM in response to RickMcCourt

    You can turn off those features under setting - general - spotlight Search.

  • by racer84,

    racer84 racer84 Oct 22, 2015 1:21 AM in response to tyfromhagerstown
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    Oct 22, 2015 1:21 AM in response to tyfromhagerstown

    I've installed IOS 9.1 yesterday. So far, spotlight search seems to be OK.

  • by tyfromhagerstown,

    tyfromhagerstown tyfromhagerstown Oct 22, 2015 2:54 AM in response to racer84
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    Oct 22, 2015 2:54 AM in response to racer84

    iOS 9.1 installed here and spotlight's results are still limited.

  • by atbat,

    atbat atbat Oct 26, 2015 3:44 AM in response to KobiW
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    Oct 26, 2015 3:44 AM in response to KobiW

    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???

  • by themagicacorn,

    themagicacorn themagicacorn Oct 30, 2015 7:41 AM in response to KobiW
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    Oct 30, 2015 7:41 AM in response to KobiW

    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!

  • by nickw22000,

    nickw22000 nickw22000 Nov 6, 2015 2:43 AM in response to WSE1951
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    Nov 6, 2015 2:43 AM in response to WSE1951

    This worked for me, thank you.

  • by ces69jen,

    ces69jen ces69jen Nov 6, 2015 2:36 PM in response to KobiW
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    Nov 6, 2015 2:36 PM in response to KobiW

    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. 

     

    ???

     

    Apple, fix it please. 

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