I used spotlight search for almost everything I do through cmd+space. However ever since i updated my laptop to MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1, the spotlight search won't give me app results: for example i type "flux" and will get just web-based results, not the app. I tried going into the spotlight settings and only enabling applications to be searched for results and got nothing. I tried the same with the Notes app, i get the same result, i get some notes i wrote as result but not the actual app. It doesn't happen on all apps for example Brave or Spotify work.

When I search for text in a .html file using the Command-Spacebar spotlight popup the .html file is never shown in the results. On the other hand the .html file does show in the result when I search in the Finder window search field, or when I search in the Terminal using mdfind. Why is this and how can I fix? I want to use spotlight to find .html files. You can reproduce the problem like this: echo spotlighttest > testone.txt % echo spotlighttest > testtwo.html % mdfind spotlighttest 2024-12-30 14:22:28.552 mdfind[28326:550500] [UserQueryParser] Loading keywords and predicates for locale "en_US" 2024-12-30 14:22:28.553 mdfind[28326:550500] [UserQueryParser] Loading keywords and predicates for locale "en" ~/Desktop/Spotlighttest/testone.txt ~/Desktop/Spotlighttest/testtwo.html I believe this shows that both files are index properly, but if you then do Command-Spacebar and search for "Spotlighttest" I think you will see that only testone shows as a result. Edit I believe this is a change in macOS 15.x and used to work correctly in previous macOS

Previous I thought that this is something only Apple apps can do, but I just noticed that Google drive can do that too. But I couldnt find the documentation for that. Does anyone know? thanks!

I'm using Core Data to save data. Then I wanna add spotlight support. self.spotlightDelegate = StorageSpotlightDelegate(forStoreWith: description, coordinator: container.persistentStoreCoordinator) let isSpotlightDisable = UserDefaults.standard.bool(forKey: "isSpotlightDisable") if !isSpotlightDisable { self.toggleSpotlightIndexing(enable: true) } public func toggleSpotlightIndexing(enable: Bool) { guard let spotlightDelegate = spotlightDelegate else { return } if enable { spotlightDelegate.startSpotlightIndexing() } else { spotlightDelegate.stopSpotlightIndexing() spotlightDelegate.deleteSpotlightIndex { error in if let error = error { print(error) } } } UserDefaults.standard.set(!enable, forKey: "isSpotlightDisable") } It works fine on an iOS15 device, but not work on iOS 17&18. On iOS 18 devices, I can search the data when the first time to added to Core Data. But if I stop spotlight indexing and restart again, the data is never be searched. How can I to solve this? And I noticed that the problem is also exists in another dictionary app.

This bundle is invalid. Unable to load ‘Info.plist’ for bundle at path: ‘My App.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/MyApp-SpotlightIndex.mdimporter’.. This mdimporter is embedded in my app with a Copy step in Build Phases and when I Archive the compiled app, I get that error when I try to Validate. The app works OK, the mdimporter Spotlight works OK, all runs fine. But the Validate on the Archive does not work, it fails with that error.