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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.
Try to reset all setting. It helped me at least for 3 hours.
As surprising as it is, this helped.thx
This works for me. Thanks
...yes it does, but apparently even this method stopped working again after I restarted my iPhone recently. I had to disable and re-enable all groups in Contacts again to get it back to work. This bug seems to be more persistant than expected... hope Apple fixes this behavior soon.
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Try to reset all settings. It helped me for 3 days now.
...what exactly do you mean by "all settings"?
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Thank you! 🙂 Now I see the contact what I looking for only without the pic.
My contacts were not showing up but then I updated to iOS 9.0.1 and that fixed the problem, even though the release notes don't mention the issue as being fixed. But I don't care as my phone is cured!
Sorry to disappoint you, but it's definitely not cured. I updated to 9.0.1. yesterday morning too, and in the afternoon, my Contacts were gone again from Spotlight Search just as I badly needed some phone number (the same thing happened two days ago by the way). Meaning that my method and the soft reset button method are no permanent solutions. I did both again and now it works, but it's just a question of time before the contacts will be vanishing again from Spotlight search. iOS 9.0.1. has nothing to do with this bug. I really hope this issue will be fixed with 9.1. which is already in beta-testing. Spotlight search for Contacts is one of the few functions that are REALLY useful and therefore heavily used by me.
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I do not have good news for you. Even in 9.1.1 public beta this problem exist.
I've tried all the recommendations with 9.0.1 with no luck. Does Apple ever respond in this forum as to when an issue will be fixed?
Sick and Tired of this problem. tried out every possible solution listed here. But nothing seems to work. Apple Please help.
Until this is resolved by Apple, I'm needing to go to Contacts and search there. Kind of defeat the main usefulness of Spotlight Search. I'd prefer Apple focus on making sure Spotlight Search fulfills its core role like searching Contacts, Notes and Mail rather than add deep search for other apps which I am not particularly bothered about.
How about iOS 9.0.2? Was it fixed with the new update?
It did... temporarily. Not working anymore now. I hate this.
ios 9 contacts not appearing in spotlight search
