Anyone else have Tahoe "break" the ability to find apps?

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Hi all,

Everything worked well immediately after I updated to Tahoe.

Then, seemed like a few days after the upgrade, I had the “indexing problem” as many describe it.

Suddenly, I would go to my trusty “CMD-Space” and search for an app to run and my computer would offer up running that app on iPhone mirroring(!).

I could only “see” phone apps!!

Since I spent money on a Macbook Pro (my 5th over the years?) I felt I should be able to run that program on my expensive laptop, not tunneling into my phone(!). (/sarcasm font off).

Discovered how to switch off searching phone apps via web search:

Settings > Spotlight > deselect iPhone Apps, near the very bottom

That helped a little – I am still having problems finding apps. Sometimes, when I run an app, it will show up when I search for it later (sometimes not).

I can switch to the apps view in Spotlight and SEE an app on the list; then type the first few letters of its name and it disappears from my choices!

I believe reindexing has completed.

Do I go “ballistic” and use something like OnyX to force a reindexing?

I welcome other thoughts from you all(!).

I don’t need to rant and rave over this; but it seems like a black eye for Apple to release something fraught with errors (not just my small problems, but problems I’m seeing reported all over!).

When I first installed it, I thought it looked a bit like Linux Mint!

GUI envy?

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I always keep Onyx around, although admittedly I haven’t downloaded the Tahoe version yet. I don’t see a reason not to use it to force a re-index.

IMHO, 26.0 Tahoe is full of bugs. I’m waiting until at least 26.1 and probably even 26.2 before I upgrade everything in the house. I also have Alfred, and frankly I use that for launching. I haven’t had any problems with it yet in Tahoe.

Spotlight is too annoying unless lots of its search groups are turned off.

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After reindexing, try booting into safe mode, wait for it to fully boot, and then reboot normally. You’ll probably see spotlight index again. See if that helps. I had an indexing problem recently on Sequoia and after lots of fun and exciting attempts with terminal, this did the trick.

Worth a shot.

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Thank you @tomalmy and @evanfuchs!

Reindexed three times!

I think that has fixed things.

Did the reindexing once via the normal reindexing, once via OnyX, and finally by going into Spotlight’s settings and telling it I thought all of my hard drive was private and should not be indexed. Waited; then shut down, rebooted and removed the hard drive from that private list (thus forcing another indexing).

Goodness, that was a pain.

Had not tried the safeboot; but will try that next time. … Sad to think there will be a next time. :cry:

Thank you again. :smiley: