Why Spotlight Suggestions don't work for me?

Spotlight finds everything locally but online suggestions don't work. This feature is declared in the Apple Knowledge base: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204014. For example I want to see weather, stock prices right in Spotlight. But when I type weather in the search box Spotlight finds only local files, mail, bookmarks, history. What is wrong with this guy?

Posted on Oct 14, 2020 2:02 PM

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Posted on Oct 15, 2020 2:29 PM

Ok, I found out what's wrong with it. It is just not available in my country... :(

https://www.apple.com/macos/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions


Strange thing... Siri is available in Russia and Spotlight Suggestions are not.

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Oct 15, 2020 2:29 PM in response to VikingOSX

Ok, I found out what's wrong with it. It is just not available in my country... :(

https://www.apple.com/macos/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions


Strange thing... Siri is available in Russia and Spotlight Suggestions are not.

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Oct 15, 2020 8:08 AM in response to dobby007

You may need to boot into Safe Boot Mode (press/hold shift key) and allow it to clear System caches. Then reboot normally. See if that kicks Spotlight in the rear, and your weather queries now work.


I powered on the MacBook Air with 10.15.7 this morning, and immediately went to System Preferences : Security & Privacy to check on the status of location services, and found that it remains off. Yet again, in Spotlight, I entered, Weather in Dallas (1200 miles away), and it instantly presented that Spotlight result.


Plan B. Turn on the Weather extension in System Preferences : Extensions : Today, and configure it in the Notification panel's Today panel for your location, or other frequently checked locations.

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Oct 14, 2020 2:34 PM in response to dobby007

The Spotlight weather syntax in that linked article does not work for me on macOS Mojave 10.14.6, but certainly does behave reliably on macOS Catalina 10.15.7 — regardless of the city. I have not rebuilt my Spotlight database on either operating system.


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