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

63 replies

Nov 4, 2015 3:18 PM in response to momdec23

I have heard from another user that my suggestion was the only one that worked for him... This should take you to my post...Re: ios 9 contacts not appearing in spotlight search

Nov 9, 2015 6:18 PM in response to David Pakman

I was having the same problem and tried all kinds of things. Finally, I clicked on "Groups" in the top left hand corner of my Contacts app. I then clicked on "Show All Contacts" (it then becomes "Hide All Contacts". Even though I could always see all my contacts maybe somehow the Search field remained blind until I clicked on "Show All Contacts" and it reset it somehow? I don't know, but it worked!

Nov 9, 2015 6:46 PM in response to Gagal2001

This certainly is one bug in ios 9.x.x, while on ios 8 when seeking out contacts are fully

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