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Cannot type in spotlight since upgrade to 10.12.1

Keyboard works fine everywhere except on the spotlight window. I can call it up just fine with Command+Space but then I can't type anything in it. The problem is not the indexing, I can search just fine using search in Finder. The problem is that the keyboard just won't type in the spotlight window.

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.1)

Posted on Nov 4, 2016 1:04 PM

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Posted on Jan 27, 2017 1:23 PM

Same issue here on a 2016 MBP. Happens intermittently and is resolved with a

killall Spotlight
. When the issue presents itself, all keyboard input is ignored by the Spotlight UI except CMD-space which will close Spotlight correctly as expected.

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Cannot type in spotlight since upgrade to 10.12.1

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