spotlight search iOS 9 contacts not showing in results

So the digital trends article ONLY TEMPORARILY worked. in the morning it fixed two iphone 5 and then tonight both can't search again. It is even consistent to the point that the partial searches we sometimes see are the same behavior on the same contacts across our phones.

BTW the behavior shifts. Sometimes it doesn't find any reference to the name, sometimes it finds the name in a record that has the name in the comments field and sometimes it finds the actual name record itself AND the behavior is the same at the same time on these two phones

iOS = i Ordered Samsung

I too recently upgraded 9.0.1 and is in a fix. Search for a particular contact does not list all options. Say if i search Dr, it doest not list all contacts starting with or contains Dr !!! I contacted apple care and i got advice for soft reset and then factory reset!!!.

But none of this worked and now after half a day of installation of the new os, it is showing up more results. I think its the indexing in progress which is creating the problem.

wait and watch.

After trying everything suggested on this forum, nothing worked for me.

Somehow I found out that spotlight was only returning results for contacts that had a Facebook id. So I went to contacts-groups and turned Facebook contacts off And every other group on. Immediately all contacts started showing in spotlight.

Hope this helps.

I try to solve this by go to setting>Mail,Contacts,Calendars and choose contact from iCloud account olny, now my contacts show up in spotlight search. This work for me.

I have tried everything posted in this thread, (Including ALDEREZ most recent recommendation). None fix the issue for me. I have 10 years of contacts and notes in contacts, etc. Its as though the Spotlight Indexing gets hung up on something. It works somewhat for names early in alphabet but not for those in contact list further down in alphabet.

Does anyone know if there is a link to communicate this problem to APPLE to ensure that they are aware of and working on a solution?

RESET SETTINGS (not wipe!) helped, though I really had to configure everything again ...

Same problem here. Upgraded to 9.0.1 But some few contacts apear. Apple please fix this!

apple.com/feedback

I am told that the engineers read these emails. I submitted a frustrated form just a few minutes ago.

My solution for now was

1) turn off everything in Spotlight Search

2) soft reset (press power and home button at same time)

3) then in Contacts touch blue "Groups" button at top left. Select option to turn off all contacts. Wait 1 minute. Turn all contacts back on. Wait 1 minute. Try again and hopefully contacts will appear in search.

It worked for me, but a previous solution worked only briefly.

Also I just turned back on mail, notes, calendar and reminders in spotlight search. Hoping this doesn't make problems.

This is a problem for a lot of people, so expect it to be solved soon.

i THOUGHT the 9.01 fixed it but it only worked for a little while. what happens now is that it (somewhat randomly) will access my contacts but

ONLY THE PROPER NAMES that is NOT any contact where there is a company and no name associated with it (like 30% of my contacts)... so

i really can't use it. I tried everything too that was suggested here. This is an odd one, someone probably programmed "contacts" thinking

it's always about peoples' names and not companies...

await a fix

Same problem here. Worked for a while with all the workaround suggested (the most common one to turn all spotlight options off and hard restart). Now it does not work anymore.

It's really annoying.

Also the settings search does not work as claimed within spotlight.

I Had it fixed and 9.01 broke it again. I turned off my gmail contacts and it's working now. In my case I don't need them anymore. By the way, I have three email accounts, two personal and work. Now I have iCloud and work and it works.

Just in case there are people who might have been misguided as I was.

You have to perform the "Hide all contacts, DONE, Show all contacts, Done" cycle in the "Contacts App", not the "Phone" app.

This was the trick that made it work. I had tried everything here but did not work until I figured this.

Hope this helps for someone out there.

Hide all Contacts and then Show all Contacts seems to work for me.

in fact, there was always this problem. It started to become visible in recent times. I thing this is software bug, but this problem can not be recognized by Apple. if Apple says, recommend a soft reset or etc. ,They still could not see. It's really annoying.

ver : iOS 9.01

Phone: iPhone 5

Question? Did any if these fixes work over the long terms? I have tried them all (thank you to the community for posting) but they all failed eventually. The last one worked (cycling hide/show groups in contacts) until,ironically, I deleted the contact I created as recommended by the first solution in this thread. So in short these solutions are the newest false gods in our Apple Religion. Only an act of the true god (Apple itself) can address this. For now I'm just referring to "spotlight search" as Spotty-Light search or #spottylightsearch. Take to Twitter and other social media because there is NO workaround for this.

Please let us know if any of your fixes are still working days later after you have changed your contacts.

Also call apple customer support and tell them. That they will notice.