calendar search not showing future appts

Hello have been finding that the calendar app on the mac will now show future scheduled appts beyond the soonest in the search bar. Strangely when I manually go to the future scheduled appt on the actual calendar and then cut and paste it right back in, and then redo the search it shows up. the search works fine on the iPhone. Any ideas would be appreciated? Would re-indexing the calendar help? and if so how do I do that?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 13.5

Posted on Oct 12, 2023 11:39 AM

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Posted on Oct 13, 2023 12:29 PM

Hi coopmax,


Welcome to Apple Support Communities. Rebuilding the Spotlight index on your Mac may help to resolve the issue you're experiencing in the Calendar app on your Mac. Here are the steps on how to rebuild the Spotlight index:


Rebuild the Spotlight index
Follow the appropriate steps, based on the version of macOS that you're using.

macOS Ventura or later
1. Choose Apple menu  > System Settings.
2. Click Siri & Spotlight in the sidebar, then scroll down and click Spotlight Privacy on the right.
3. Drag the disk or folder that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the add button (+) and select the disk or folder to add.*
Folder named Documents dragged into the Spotlight Privacy window
4. From the same list of locations, select the disk or folder that you just added. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list.

5. Click Done, then quit System Settings. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the disk or folder. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed.

Earlier versions of macOS
1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
2. Click the Privacy tab.
3. Drag the disk or folder that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the add button (+) and select the disk or folder to add.*
Folder named Documents dragged into the Spotlight Privacy tab
4. From the same list of locations, select the disk or folder that you just added. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list.

5. Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the disk or folder. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed.

These steps are outlined in this helpful article: Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support


Kind regards.



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Oct 13, 2023 12:29 PM in response to coopmax

Hi coopmax,


Welcome to Apple Support Communities. Rebuilding the Spotlight index on your Mac may help to resolve the issue you're experiencing in the Calendar app on your Mac. Here are the steps on how to rebuild the Spotlight index:


Rebuild the Spotlight index
Follow the appropriate steps, based on the version of macOS that you're using.

macOS Ventura or later
1. Choose Apple menu  > System Settings.
2. Click Siri & Spotlight in the sidebar, then scroll down and click Spotlight Privacy on the right.
3. Drag the disk or folder that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the add button (+) and select the disk or folder to add.*
Folder named Documents dragged into the Spotlight Privacy window
4. From the same list of locations, select the disk or folder that you just added. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list.

5. Click Done, then quit System Settings. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the disk or folder. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed.

Earlier versions of macOS
1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
2. Click the Privacy tab.
3. Drag the disk or folder that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the add button (+) and select the disk or folder to add.*
Folder named Documents dragged into the Spotlight Privacy tab
4. From the same list of locations, select the disk or folder that you just added. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list.

5. Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the disk or folder. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed.

These steps are outlined in this helpful article: Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support


Kind regards.



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