spotlight search iOS 9 contacts not showing in results

Had the same problem in iOS 11 along with email app freezing then crashing. Here's how I fixed it. First I downloaded all my photos off of iCloud. That took a couple days. Then I made sure my contacts were synced. Went to the garage and selected a 2 LB hammer and beat the everloving crap out of my POS iPhone. Picked up a Samsung galaxy phone (the cheapest model) and have never been happier. After 7+ years of steadily worsening "updates" I'm done and oh so happy.

I have the same issue and i hope that this is going to be fixed soon

Same problem. I solved it by shutting down all the spotlight switches in Preferences/General/Spotlight. Then restart the phone by pressing Home and Side buttons at the same time.

Finally, toggle on only the contact switch in spotlight. Wait for a few minutes and all the contacts must appear now.

Later, you can enable other searches if you want.

I hope this can solve the problem to anyone.

Fernando

Just downloaded IOS9 on my iPhone 5 and seem to have all functions EXCEPT phone function: NO CONTACTS, NO CALL HISTORY NO FUNCTION ON number keypad. I can't use my phone as a PHONE!!!!! it seems i am not an exception. WHAT TO DO I am am ready to throw my 'non' phone out the window. Thanks Apple!!! I await my new IPHONE 6 next week with much trepidation!!

Doesn't work for me

It works right.

thanks

I turned off everything but Contacts for the spotlight search, and now it returns nothing. Any more suggestions? It certainly should show contacts, but it doesn't and I've turned the phone off and on. It makes no sense as reason and logic say it should work.

this helped perfectly.

I really thank you for your help. it's such a useful thing that contacts are searched properly in the spotlight.

Yes, this worked on my 5S. Only thing different was just shut down phone and manually restarted. Did not turn back on most of the searchable items. Ridiculous that something as fundamental as the Search was made incapable of prioritizing Contacts as updated.

I followed your directions exactly and it did absolutely nothing. I have only "contacts" on under General\Spotlight Search and no contacts show up at all. The thirty or so "groups" of contacts that I have are no longer alphabetized in iOS 9. I wonder if the problem is in the iOS version of Contacts.

I just figured it out folks - When I just added a new contact to a new group that I created guess what? That contact showed up in Spotlight Search!

Get to work Apple. I don't think there is going to be an easy workaround for this one.

The fix did nothing for me either.

Spotlight search only shows up Contacts that you have added since installing iOS 9.

Good luck replacing all your contacts with a new version of each!

Apple - get to work!

Actually by adding one new contact it seemed to force the other contacts that were already in my Contacts to show up as well.