I upgraded to ios 9 yesterday, since then I have been having trouble finding most of my contacts using spotlight search, Siri suggestions for contacts also disappeared after seeing it a couple of times. Search will come up with messages and emails for the contact but not the contact card itself. Frustrating.
I'm using iPhone 5S, contacts are synced from google account.
iPhone 5s, iOS 9
I had the same problem. In my case it was iCloud sync that seemed to cause the problem.
This helped me:
Go to "Settings" ==> "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" ==> Under the heading "Contacts" select "Default account".
I had both Exhange and iCloud available here. iCloud was selected. By changing to Exchange spotlight started to find my contacts. After switching back to iCloud continued to work (at least for the last half hour).
Hope this helps.
/M
I had the same problem. In my case it was iCloud sync that seemed to cause the problem.
This helped me:
Go to "Settings" ==> "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" ==> Under the heading "Contacts" select "Default account".
I had both Exhange and iCloud available here. iCloud was selected. By changing to Exchange spotlight started to find my contacts. After switching back to iCloud continued to work (at least for the last half hour).
Hope this helps.
/M
One fix may be to head into Settings > General > Spotlight Search > Enable Contacts, although it’s hard to know if this will work for everyone to fix the issue.
Thank you all for the ideas but was fixed in a different way. I deleted my google accoun and then recreated it and now it works. Actually it did not work at first then an hour later it works flawlessly.
Hello everyone. In my settings under mail, contacts, calendar, under the heading contacts, there is no "default account"
I've had the same problem on my iPhone 5s running iOS 9. The above solution doesn't seem to fix this problem for me. Spotlight worked well before iOS 9. Any other suggestions? I've already tried turning off and on "contacts" under settings, spotlight search
Hello!
I have the same problem. iOS 9.0.1 installed on iPhone 6, contacts from Google account.
I tried everything pointed in this topic, none worked completely. Disabling Contacts in Spotlight search settings followed by reset of iphone seems to work, but after more testing proved just a partial solution. Some of the contacts appear, but not all. After 2 days of use, no more than 2 contacts appear regardless of name searched. I have around 2400 contacts, so usual names give a lot of hits.
I files a bug report here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Please do the same thing, so we can draw Apple attention on this matter and get it fixed sooner than later.
Best regards
Just want to share. I fixed this problem by finding a contact or any contact that has a picture or photo, and then delete the photo and save.
After a while, the missing contacts in spotlight search start appearing again. No hard reset or deleting accounts needed.
Cheers...
"Removing contacts photo" worked like charm! Nothing else did. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
When you say you deleted your Google account, do you mean you removed it, then added it back in? I'm nervous about doing that because I do nearly everything through Google (except my calendar). I have a 5S with ios 9.1
I Had over 500 contacts and was left with just over 100. I went into contacts and on my he top left corner is groups. Select groups and on the bottom is all iPhone. Select that and "presto"! Contacts reappeared. I also selected all Exchange contacts and the remaining hundred or so also reappeared. Hope this helps
Missing contacts in spotlight search in iOS 9
