since updating to 15.5:
not sure if anyone else is noticing odd behavior since updating
my specs are:
MBA M2
24GB RAM
MacBook Air, macOS 15.5
Finder Search relies on Spotlight. So first try rebuilding the Spotlight indexing.
Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
If that doesn't help, go to > System Settings > Spotlight and check the desired boxes.
Choose suggestion categories for Spotlight on Mac - Apple Support
Finder Search relies on Spotlight. So first try rebuilding the Spotlight indexing.
Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
If that doesn't help, go to > System Settings > Spotlight and check the desired boxes.
Choose suggestion categories for Spotlight on Mac - Apple Support
Have a look at > Privacy List Error When trying to reindex… - Apple Community
I've been experiencing these same issues since updating to Sequoia 15.5: the search function in Finder does not return any results, and Spotlight seems incapable of returning most files or applications as search results.
@den.thed I've tried both of your solutions and they did not work for me. When trying to rebuild the spotlight index via Search Privacy, I got the following error popup.
Checking and unchecking categories helped me get rid of some unwanted suggestions, but has not helped to bring back useful search results. Virtually none of my files show up in Spotlight.
finder search and spotlight search acting strange since updating to sequoia 15.5
