Jan 28, 2015 Go to your iCloud e-mail and send yourself an email addressed to your iCloud e-mail account. You can do this on your phone, or on a computer. When you open it on your phone, it somehow corrects the problem of Spotlight not finding Apps when you search.
- Jul 12, 2018 The next time you start typing 'Terminal' stop with the first three letters: 'Ter'.Try it: Open Spotlight from the top right corner icon ( Command + Spacebar) Start typing 'Ter' (add more letters if you don't see Terminal in the list) Select Terminal.
- When trying to search for other apps using Spotlight, if the app shows up, the focus is not on the app, it is on a web search for the app name. This is really frustrating, as i type quickly and Spotlight launches Safari instead of the app I'm searching for.
- Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
- Click the Privacy tab.
- Drag the folder or disk that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the add button (+) and select the folder or disk to add.
You can add an item to the Privacy tab only if you have ownership permissions for that item. To learn about permissions, choose Help from the Finder menu bar, then search for “permissions.” - From the same list of locations, select the folder or disk that you just added. Then click the remove button (–) to remove it from the list.
- Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the folder or disk. This can take some time, depending on the amount of information being indexed.