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Hello everyone,
If this question was already answered please direct me to the solution.
At some point Spotlight stoped responding, the icon is in the menu but is not responding when pressed, Command + Space is not working. However Spotlight in Finder and Launchpad is fine. Also if loged in as a Guest user everything works. Please help find a solution.
current MacOS: 13.5.2 (22G91)
nadezda240 wrote:
Hello everyone,
If this question was already answered please direct me to the solution.
At some point Spotlight stoped responding, the icon is in the menu but is not responding when pressed, Command + Space is not working. However Spotlight in Finder and Launchpad is fine. Also if loged in as a Guest user everything works. Please help find a solution.
current MacOS: 13.5.2 (22G91)
the principles are the same as here—
Mail and Messages do not search since upg… - Apple Community
Beyond the Safeboot recommended above to trouble shoot further you can:
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
unplug all third party peripherals when testing
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS
nadezda240 wrote:
Hello everyone,
If this question was already answered please direct me to the solution.
At some point Spotlight stoped responding, the icon is in the menu but is not responding when pressed, Command + Space is not working. However Spotlight in Finder and Launchpad is fine. Also if loged in as a Guest user everything works. Please help find a solution.
current MacOS: 13.5.2 (22G91)
the principles are the same as here—
Mail and Messages do not search since upg… - Apple Community
Beyond the Safeboot recommended above to trouble shoot further you can:
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
unplug all third party peripherals when testing
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS
Thank you for your help!
Turned out it was the position of the spotlight search bar while using Dell display. When disconected display the spotlight bar appeared on a side of Mac display. Simply moved it closer to the middle and now everything is working both with second display connected and not. Weird bug!
Spotlight doesn't work
