iPhone photos and messages not indexing after iOS 17 Update

After the iOS 17 update, and the first patch, (17.0.1) my photos are no longer indexed properly. For example, if I just try to search for 9/21, I get five random photos from different dates. PLEASE HELP!

I have restarted the device multiple times and have also learned that it may take up to one week to re-index after the update, but I don’t think that’s the problem.


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Posted on Sep 22, 2023 3:19 AM

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Oct 27, 2023 5:47 AM in response to SFloridaDave

YES! I’m so glad I saw your post and knew there was an update. It fixed it for me also. Update to the new 17.1, I wasn’t alerted there was an update from Apple so you may have to go to general and updates and manually check. Hopefully it fixes it for all of us. I was relieved to know there were so many others like me that missed that feature!

Oct 27, 2023 11:47 AM in response to SFloridaDave

Mine is also broken after upgrades, still broke with 17.1. iPhone won’t sync photos or align with iCloud. But the iPad is working fine, same upgrade processes same accounts…my iCloud has 19000 photos, suddenly my phone just sat there and deleted down to 7000 photos and is frozen with various sync messages…sync up, sync down, phone to hot, optimizing system, restoring from backup, etc…messages and photo count keep varying but no sync is happening.. processor and network traffic are low, phone gets hot anytime I change any setting

iPhone photos and messages not indexing after iOS 17 Update

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