Since I upgraded to Ventura, the Spotlight Preview pane has disappeared. All I get is a list of hits. If I click on one it opens. If it navigate to it with the cursor keys and hit Tab, the cursor jumps back to the search line.
MacBook Pro Apple Silicon
Feel free to send Apple feedback about the change.
Feel free to send Apple feedback about the change.
Yes, I've noticed this too.
Apparently, you're supposed to use the space bar, which brings up a Quick Look preview window.
While this is OK if all you want to do is see a preview of an image (which I almost never do), it's not very helpful for the main use I have for Spotlight, which is to open an application and then choose the actual document.
Previously, all I had to do was cmd-space Sc enter tab and I had a list of Scrivener documents, which I could choose with the down arrow in the way nature intended.
Now it's cmd-spc Sc enter down-arrow space and use the stupid mouse to have to pick a document because the QuickView window doesn't get the focus.
This is not helpful – the whole point of Spotlight is that you don't have to waste time using the mouse, so why cripple the feature in this way?
Thanks for this thread- I totally agree, the new spotlight is terrible and reduced productivity by not having a preview. Such a fail in the new OS. Has anyone found a workaround yet?
Spotlight preview pane in Ventura
