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Spotlight Search priority

My spotliht search has radically changed after installing Big Sur. Before I could search for apps and open them just by pressing enter. The apps would always be at the top of the list, and it seemed like spotlight would "learn" what I wanted to be at the top of the list (in the case there were 2 apps meeting the search criteria).

Now, there is always some websearch appearing at the top of the list, and apps will appear in the midle of the list somewhere. For example Fusion 360:

It dosen't help unticking everything else than "Applications", the web resut still appears at the top.

Does anyone know how to either get spotlight to learn and adapt to my needs, or sort the result of the seach so that Apps appear on top?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Sep 21, 2021 3:32 AM

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VikingOSX

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Sep 21, 2021 6:20 AM in response to JayKeyStk

I have every Spotlight search result category selected except Siri Suggestions. Spotlight will neither learn, nor order your results unless you learn how to use Spotlight keywords to manipulate and narrow your search results.

If you are using Autodesk Fusion 360 frequently, why not drag and drop it on your Dock, so you have one-click access?

In Big Sur, you can find it via Spotlight as:

kind:app name:fusion

This will narrow your search to just applications with the case-insensitive name fusion in them. Should result in two hits, and nothing else.

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