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Why is Spotlight Search textbox disappearing?

Whenever I hit my keyboard shortcut [command + option + spacebar] to open Spotlight Search, as soon as I begin typing a couple of letter into the text input field, the text input box closes suddenly. Why is this happening? Is there a fix? I'm running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 on an early 2015 MacBook Pro. Thanks.

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.6)

Posted on Oct 18, 2018 4:16 PM

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Posted on Oct 18, 2018 6:58 PM

See if anything here helps. Try going to System Preferences/Spotlight/Search Results and uncheck Bookmarks and History.


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Why is Spotlight Search textbox disappearing?

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