spotlight not working

I had a similar issue. I have to external screens and when starting up without these screens spotlight worked, but not with the screens attached. Turns out it did work with the screens connected, the spotlight window was just placed of screen(s). Put your mouse cursor on the spotlight icon in the menubar and press the left mouse button for a few seconds and the placement of the spotlight window should reset. (IF our problems are the same)

Good luck.

msal_2022 wrote:

Hello, I updated my Mac to MacOS Ventura 13.0.1 the day the update came out, and since then I've had problems with spotlight search, and I had problems with Siri before that.

None of these options work anymore! I tried reindexing the hard disk, I tried closing SystemUIServer, I rebooted my Mac twice and nothing brought Spotlight search back. I hit the key and it doesn't activate, I press the button on the menu bar and it does nothing either.

One of the best features on Mac was just taken from my computer seemingly overnight and I don't know what to do! Please help

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daf5161 wrote:

Put your mouse cursor on the spotlight icon in the menubar and press the left mouse button for a few seconds and the placement of the spotlight window should reset.

Excellent post daf5161 !

bro - whaaaaat - holding down left button on the spotlight icon in the menubar totally worked. Like - I tried everything but this solution is like - puzzlingly simple

Worth going through Apple's annoying sign-in process to say this worked for me, absolutely dumbfounded after. Thank you for sharing!

I just had to share it because I did “everything” except reinstall and spent way to much time on it when the solution was so simple