What may be preventing iOS 15 rich web search results from being shown in Spotlight?
After upgrading to iOS 15 on my iPhone 12 mini, I was expecting to see rich results from the web in Spotlight, as in this example from an AppleInsider article:
However, when I search for something that I’m sure should trigger such new rich results (like the full name of a president or a celebrity, including the “William Gallagher” query from the above example), I get nothing:
I have the Content From Apple settings enabled for Spotlight in the Siri & Search settings, to no avail:
Since I have Siri, the voice assistant itself, turned off, as you can see in the above screenshot, I tried turning it on, full mode, with voice activation:
That has not helped (even after a reboot).
I have also made sure that I have all Siri-related settings turned on for Safari:
My iPhone configuration is not really unusual or esoteric in other respects by any means, either.
It doesn’t seem to be a complete failure of rich results, too, as I get those from the Contacts app, for example. It is only the web search rich results that are missing for some reason.
Hence my wondering:
- What could be preventing rich web results from being shown for Spotlight searches?
- Are there any relevant settings that might prevent them from appearing?
