Hello,
I search for contacts that I know are on the phone and are located in the contacts app, but Spotlight Search does not return any contacts. It does return mentions of people in messages, email, calendar, etc. I have checked that "Contacts" is "on" in Siri Suggestions, but no help.
Ideas?
Thanks.
same here ... even when I disable all other search areas in the spotlight search setting only leaving contacts on - spotlight search does not return existing contacts.
I am having the exact same problem and I'm seeing this issue raised via web searches outside of Apple.
**update** I turned off siri from within the spotlight settings, and contacts started to appear in my search results. When I turned siri back on, it continued to work. Not sure if that is a solution, but so far so good...
Check Settings > General > Spotlight Search > Contacts = "On"
Thanks Steve, the switch was already on. I listed my fix above and it seemed to do the trick..
Hi,
Doing everthing but still it does't work. I think we have to wait iOS 9.01
When you write a name of person I see calendar, messages, mail, everything without contact. Or write a part of name see only 3 of them, not all.
Someone to know how can I change settings - first contact, mail, apps.... (for exaple) on Siri Suggestions/Search?
I have the same problem as official release. I have reported this in the first public beta (and it seems Apple just can't fix it).
I tried to delete all contacts and synchronize them again. It just won't help. Still cannot search contacts.
Disappointed.
Guys, try the following, this just worked for me:
Go to Contacts and deselect all address books (under "Groups") so that not a single contact is shown. Then re-activate the desired Groups (address books) again. Spotlight search should now show Contacts search hits again.
Best
I had this problem. Try do a hard reset by holding the on/off button and the menu button together till the phone shuts down and then switch it on again. My contacts then emerged when I did a spotlight search. Strange!
The problem I am having is changing the search order for the spotlight search, as one could do with ios8
True, the search order seems to be completely in the iPhone's hands. It's not even alphabetical according to the App names, by the way. I tried "Marc" - and the Wikipedia entry for "Marc" is shown even above Calendar, Contacts and Messages search hits although the Wikipedia entry in the Spotlight settings is shown almost at the end of the list.
G.
I had a same problem with iOS 8, after 8.01 or 8.02 it was fixed.
...we're talking IOS 9 here...
Same here, tried all of the above still not working...
Any solution?
I tried that and it did not work for me. None of my contacts are showing up in spotlight after trying it or doing a hard reset.
Having the same issue... spotlight search does not show contacts as part of result.
ios 9 contacts not appearing in spotlight search
