Contacts quicklook broken after Catalina Security Update 2021-007

[daniel1113]

Anyone else having problems with quicklook after applying Security Update 2021-007? On my system, quicklook stopped working for contacts and vcards. The problem manifests using quicklook from Finder or through Spotlight search results. Instead of showing a preview of the contact, it shows a generic icon with a UUID. Everything worked fine before applying Security Update 2021-007.

Here is a contact in Spotlight:

The same contact directly through Finder:

It's as though the quicklook framework isn't loading the underlying quicklook plugin. But it's limited to contacts and vcards. All the other quicklook file types work fine (images, PDFs, movies, Office documents, etc.).

What's really interesting is that the builtin quicklook utility (qlmanage) generates the correct preview. Here is the output using the "qlmanage -p" command in terminal:

To me that suggests that the plugin is fine, but there's something preventing Finder and Spotlight from using it. But I can't figure it out.

Even though I don't think it's a Spotlight issue, I've tried re-indexing Spotlight. I also copied the same sample contact to a fresh user account. I even removed and re-synced all the contact data. The results are the same.

Any thoughts?

 

[Edzard]

I have the same problem. Did anybody was able to salve this?

 

[daniel1113]

I opened a request with Apple. Their response was that they couldn't replicate the issue so they couldn't do anything.

After a few weeks of this issue and a few other bugs that cropped up in Catalina, I upgraded to Big Sur. Not a great solution if you need to stay on Catalina (like I did until just a few weeks ago), but I can confirm that quicklook of contacts works fine in Big Sur.

 

[larryleveen]

This issue is super annoying. I frequently used the Contacts preview in a Spotlight search to copy phone numbers or email addresses and now that cool functionality is broken. I tried to rebuild Spotlight to fix this but to no avail. Thanks for mentioning this — glad I am not alone. Bummed Apple seems to be ignoring the issue.

 

[larryleveen]

I just tried to use Apple Support and the problem persisted after starting in Safe Mode and also after making a new user account. They then suggested reinstalling Mac OS, but I don't have time right now.