iOS 9 Spotlight Search not working properly

This issue has resurfaced. Last time was on my iPhone 6, was fixed with iOS 10. Now I've upgraded to a iPhone 7, and running the latest beta. The only thing I can think of is that I've recently downloaded a lot of offline Apple Music (70gb).

Where do you live? Spotlight search works only in a few countries.

Hi, I had the same issue with iOS 9 and not seeing my contacts in the searches. I decided to go to spotlight search, toggle off contacts and siri suggestions, shutoff and restart my iPhone, went back to spotlight search, toggle on contacts first, did a search for contacts and behold I was able to see my contact names as I typed e.g. Hugh, I then toggled on siri suggestion.

I hope that this solves your problem as it did with me.

All the best

Ian

Same problem. I solved it by shutting down all the spotlight switches in Preferences/General/Spotlight. Then restart the phone by pressing Home and Side buttons at the same time.

Finally, toggle on only the contact switch in spotlight. Wait for a few minutes and all the contacts must appear now.

Later, you can enable other searches if you want.

I hope this can solve the problem to anyone.

Fernando

Tried the suggested solution and it didn't work. This seems to be a software but in iOS 9 since the same problem not exists in all my other iOS devices that I upgraded. I just talked to Apple Support by phone and they said it wasn't noted as a problem in their resolution queue.

Anyone else have a suggestion?

I am having this exact problem. Applecare was not able to solve it. I tried Bealert's solution, and it did not work for me either.

MY search in iOS 9 also not working. I have been using same app for last 3 nights but iOS search doesn't see it when I type it into field

Same issue for myself a real pain now as finding anything in Spotlight used to be a swipe and search and possible contact entries came up first I am missing this function

Fernando's "fix" made mine better but still missing a lot of contacts in the search. For example I have about 20 different Chris's in my contacts and when I search for Chris it finds maybe 10. One of the Chris's is actually in my favorites, spotlight search only finds his if I enter his full last name. FYI, I have over 800 contacts in my phone.

Same here, got the same problem after updating my iPhone to iOS9.

I fixed this problem by heading into the Contacts App, click on Groups and choose to ‘hide all contacts’ then switch back to ‘show all contacts’.

Credit to this website: http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/news/2015/09/ios_9_top_five_glitches_and_problems _to_watch_out_for/

This worked for me (previous poster).

I fixed this problem by heading into the Contacts App, click on Groups and choose to ‘hide all contacts’ then switch back to ‘show all contacts’.

Credit to this website: http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/news/2015/09/ios_9_top_five_glitches_and_problems _to_watch_out_for/

Another issue with upgrading to iOS9 - Notes. Unless everything Apple is upgraded to iOS9 AND El Capitan for MacBook... Your note syncing functionality will not work. I contacted Apple Support - no workaround, no way to un-upgrade your notes.. Have to wait for El Capitan to have notes sync properly across all three iPad, iPhone and MacBook Air platforms...

Seemed very un-Apple like..

had the same problem and your "hide all contacts" fix did the trick!!!!!!! Thanks

Thanks!

This hint helps me (iPhone 5).

I'm curious if people's contacts are saved in iCloud, Google, or somewhere else? My contacts are saved to/from two google accounts and I'm having this problem. Wondering if that could be part of it.