Just updated El Capitan. I find the Spotlight works just as the old one. I tried "weather" and sports evens and it shows nothing.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Just wanted to add that it is not just weather, etc not working: the natural language search also fails to be recognized, so searching for "files created today" or "emails from XYV received yesterday" brings back normal search results.
This is ironic.
I'm having the exact same problem. Spotlight is only searching in local files.
Had the same problem with the beta on an old macbook pro retina.
And now on a brand new macbook pro retina (only el capitan installed).
All checkboxes in Preferences -> Spotlight are checked.
For the non-US users it did not work in Yosemite either: it was never able to search for anything else than local files. No web searches etc.
IMO that is not very useful search tool.
Not working in Spain too. And no web results with 'Bing search' ticked in preference too.
I have the same problem. 😠😠😟
Both Spotlight and Spotlight networking is showing 0 bytes sent/received in activity monitor. Can someone verify? If spotlight is at least trying to get the results we would have non-zero sent bytes even if some server's overloaded right?
Changing System preferences > Language & Region > Region to Region: United States (Computer) solved this issue for me. Mac App Store update from Yosemite on MBP 13" retina btw.
Thanks for the tip on changing Region. I see why this workaround might work, but that is pretty annoying. Why should we mess up our regional settings just to make one trivial feature of OS work properly?
Not working for me either and that is EU region tried any number of options and just getting back local data on my files
Weather and wiki searches works after this workaround,but...Any news from Apple? It would be really nice to make it work all over the world without any workarounds,wouldn't?
Mine still didn't work even after changing to Region: United States (Computer)
Updated from yosemite, not working in my rMBP as well. Tried english and local search no response. All items ticked in spotlight settings. I think it is not ready outside US. Location: EU
It is declared on el capitan page footnotes as well:
Some features may not be available for all countries or all areas. Click here to see complete list.
to Apple: Enable this feature to all regions, please. (EN/US will be enough for a while)
I have the same problem, no spotlight features from El Capitan work.
Except for the resize / move thing.
New Spotlight not working on El Capitan
