Forcing Spotlight on iOS to reindex?

[reptarwilleatu]

Does anybody know a way to get (force) iOS to reindex Spotlight like on OS X? I know that restoring from a backup after a restore will do that, but i'm looking for any way to do it that will avoid me having to restore.

 

[C DM]

Perhaps disabling everything in Spotlight then rebooting and then re-enabling what you want (and perhaps rebooting again)?

 

[reptarwilleatu]

Nope.

 

[EdgardasB]

Nope.

Somewhere I have read, that spotlight after some period reindexes itself

 

[reptarwilleatu]

Somewhere I have read, that spotlight after some period reindexes itself

Do you remember where you read that by chance? the reason i ask is because "ghost" messages from Messages.app and Mail.app that have been deleted will still show up in Spotlight and then you tap them, it just takes you to the app but just the default view you get when you open it normally. it's happened for years and i've seen messages almost a year old still show up

 

[C DM]

Nope.

Perhaps a slightly more involved (as in repetitive) similar method mentioned at https://discussions.apple.com/message/21313554#21313554 might work for you?

 

[reptarwilleatu]

Perhaps a slightly more involved (as in repetitive) similar method mentioned at https://discussions.apple.com/message/21313554#21313554 might work for you?

didn't seem to work. maybe i'll try again tomorrow...

 

[EdgardasB]

Do you remember where you read that by chance? the reason i ask is because "ghost" messages from Messages.app and Mail.app that have been deleted will still show up in Spotlight and then you tap them, it just takes you to the app but just the default view you get when you open it normally. it's happened for years and i've seen messages almost a year old still show up

Not really. I'm facing same issue where I have also ghost emails.

 

[jpn]

hi

apple/system preferences/spotlight/privacy/+(yr entire mac hard disk)
close the preference (meaning: instruct the system to not index your hard disk)
restart
apple/system preferences/spotlight/privacy/ - (yr entire mac hard disk)
(meaning: delete the above instruction to not index)
restart

you can check if it is reindexing by: command+space bar then type a word and see it is finding it. in a minute or so there will appear a progress bar to indicate it is reindexing. a 500 GB SSD takes about 3 hours to reindex if it is about 60% full.

 

[C DM]

hi

apple/system preferences/spotlight/privacy/+(yr entire mac hard disk)
close the preference (meaning: instruct the system to not index your hard disk)
restart
apple/system preferences/spotlight/privacy/ - (yr entire mac hard disk)
(meaning: delete the above instruction to not index)
restart

you can check if it is reindexing by: command+space bar then type a word and see it is finding it. in a minute or so there will appear a progress bar to indicate it is reindexing. a 500 GB SSD takes about 3 hours to reindex if it is about 60% full.

But that doesn't do anything for iOS, which is what this thread is about.