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ios 9 contacts not appearing in spotlight search

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.

Posted on Sep 17, 2015 10:22 AM

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Oct 13, 2015 6:05 AM in response to David Pakman

Hi, I'm having the same issue as well. I've tried hard resetting, I've tried turning Siri off in Spotlight Search, I've deactivated and reactivated the groups in my contacts . . . none of it has worked. Spotlight search is the main way I search for contacts and it's taking me way longer every time I need to pull a number. So frustrating!

Oct 14, 2015 7:41 PM in response to SimoBG

Don't think I like iOS 9.0.2. I am really upset with this glitch - works intermittently, but mostly not. Locating contacts in Spotlight search is one of the best time saving iPhone features and it is now not working. Annoyingly poor/slow response from Apple to rectify this.

Furthermore I now get occasional freezes with iOS 9.0.2, which never occurred previously.

ios 9 contacts not appearing in spotlight search

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