spotlight search iOS 9 contacts not showing in results

None of them permanently work. Apple is a joke as this is such a basic function that one should have tested thoroughly before release. Also having my emails reloading themselves every once in a while with the date 01/01/70. I wish I had the guts ( and the time) to switch to android.

I tried all these fixes with no luck. I went into settings-Mail,contacts,calendars and clicked the Contacts Found in Mail button to off. Now when I search, 3 suggestions pop up and under it 4 more with a scrolling button to see more. Right now it is working, I hope it lasts.

Annoyingly the iOS 9.0.2 just came by but does not mention anything about the spotlight contact bug.

Hallelujah!!! I just installed update 9.0.2, and it appears to have SOLVED THE ISSUE of Spotlight search missing contacts!!!

(Fingers crossed that it is long lasting fix).

i just installed update 9.0.2 . Unfortunately its look like unsolved.

IOS 9.0.2 has also not solved the contact search in spotlight problem. Worked fine after the update for an hour. It's back to square one.

However it's not affecting all phones. My 6+ space grey 128GB and iphone 5 32GB White does not have this problem.

MY 64GB space grey iphone 6 (MG4F2HN/A) is affected.

Can folks here confirm which phones they have which are affected.

Also, has anyone tried a hard reset and reconfiguring google sync contacts and re downloading apps after invoking restore option in desktop iTunes.

Maybe a earlier backup of iphone is preventing the issue from getting resolved.

Most of my contacts had disappeared except for group ones! Trying to get them back from icloud didn't work. Bizarrely your suggestion did! They are now back on my iPhone 6. I also had the weird 0:00 in messages which has now gone at least for the moment. This is a mad expereince but thankyou for sorting out one of the mysteries.

Here si suggested a simpler solution that worked for me.

Nuccio

> Hallelujah!!! I just installed update 9.0.2, and it appears to have SOLVED THE ISSUE of Spotlight search missing contacts!!!

I RETRACT MY ABOVE PRAISE... Spotlight went back to NOT FINDING contacts again!

DOES ANYONE KNOW AN OFFICIAL WAY TO COMMUNICATE THIS PROBLEM TO APPLE?

I just submitted problem to Apple Developer BUG REPORTING.

Hopefully is correct channel to get message to them.

>PROBLEM POSTED:

Problem began with iOS 9.0 (and persists with iOS 9.0.1 as well as 9.0.2). There seems to be an indexing issue where SPOTLIGHT Search is not displaying many contacts that are in contact list. This thread of users has been complaining about issue here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7222722?tstart=0

Running iOS 9.0.2 on iphone 6 Plus with the problem. Have many years worth of contacts and in my phone, and SPOTLIGHT SEARCH no longer finds them. Everything is enabled in Settings, have tried disable/re-enable, hard and soft reset....problem persists.

PLEASE HELP TO RESOLVE.

I had the same issue and did this fix (adding a new contact) and it worked. The first spotlight search after I did that returned imperfect results but searches after that seem to be corrected now. Still an issue Apple needs to fix since I am updated to 9.0.2 and have been having the issue since receiving my 6S last Friday.

I have had the same problem since 9.0 and continuing through 9.0.1 and 9.0.2. It is a major inconvenience. I solved it (so far) by: (1) doing an iTunes sync with the phone and in the Info tab on the phone page in iTunes, selecting Replace information (contacts) on the next sync—note that I sync contacts through iTunes USB, not through iCloud; (2) doing a soft reset of the phone after the iTunes sync. That fixed it (as an extra step I fiddled with Groups in the Contacts app on the phone, but am not sure that did anything). Will see if the overall fix holds. I also noticed that before my fix, the Contacts app in the phone was not showing the total number of contacts when I pressed the # symbol to the right of the contacts list; after my fix it now shows the total number of contacts.

9.0.2 is NOT a fix. Just like every other "fix" it works for a period of time and then fails. It seems like doing anything to "goose" the indexing method helps for a short time. After it failed after the upgrade I did the "hide groups/show groups" thing and that worked for 12 hours.

I did email my contact in customer support with this thread and asked them to escalate. Meanwhile make noise in social communities to raise visibility so apple will fix it or at least acknowledge that they are working on a fix so we can stop collectively banging our heads against a wall.

#spottylightsearch

My problem is that I swipe over to pull up spotlight search and type in a first name, Shawn. Three Shawns pull up as "Top Hits" (even though I haven't called or texted those in years) and then right under that in a section called "Contacts" one of the three Top Hit Shawns pulls up. No more. The Shawn I talk to on a weekly basis doesn't come up by first or last name search.

Anyone have a solution or suggestion?

Thanks,

D

PS. For pure functionality, I really, really miss my blackberry curve from years ago. Too bad they couldn't keep up.

The same for me.