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Indexing still in progress. Is this “normal”?

snakesayan said:
Thank you! The instructions on 9to5 weren't clear! They should have said you need to pause and then search for pipeline completeness as well. Im at 95%
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You don’t need to pause.

1. Select your device from the sidebar
2. Type “Spotlight indexing progress”. Press Enter
3. Open Settings app on iPhone
4. Click Play.

You’d only see pipeline completeness entries.
 
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Parowdy said:
How can you tell how far done it is?
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I followed the steps in the 9to5 article, as shared by:

MD0600 said:
just saw this on 9to5Mac and found out mine is at 89%

9to5mac.com

Still seeing 'Indexing in Progress' on iOS 27? Here’s how to check the actual status - 9to5Mac

For some iOS 27 beta 1 users, the indexing process is taking much longer than expected. Thankfully, there’s a way to check the actual percentage from a Mac.
9to5mac.com 9to5mac.com
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I had to restart the iPhone after giving the accessory permissions, but then it worked as described.

Now, I don't think it's "linear", so even if it's at 90% (after just over a week) I still think it could take anywhere from a day or two, up to a week for the last 10%. We'll find out tomorrow...or...? 😉
 
snakesayan said:
Thank you! The instructions on 9to5 weren't clear! They should have said you need to pause and then search for pipeline completeness as well. Im at 95%
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pretty clear for me...seems like you skipped at least one step:
  1. In the search field, on the top right, search for: spotlight indexing progress
 
Parowdy said:
Crazy how some devices are still going. I wonder how much this has to do the actual contents on the devices.
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It has a huge amount to do with that. The three primary contributors to indexing time:
  • How much data needs to be indexed
  • CPU/NPU/RAM capacity of the device (i.e., how quickly can it index)
  • How long you keep it plugged into a charger (explicitly stated in Settings as a way to speed up indexing)
My phone has nearly a TB of data stored on it, most of which is photos/videos. I have many chat conversations going back well over a decade, 5 old and heavily used email accounts I track in Mail, and an extremely busy calendar schedule (30-40 meetings per week) that goes back many years. That's a massive amount of data to index, even for my 17PM, which is why it's still indexing, even now.
 
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Perhaps people not finished indexing is a bug in beta 1? I'd be curious how much storage the long term indexers are using. Tons of photos? Music? Messages? Or it's just stuck with not a lot of stuff to index.
 
Mine must be closer to finishing than I thought. It's been indexing since last Tues, it was at 69% about 7 hours ago, and it's jumped to 87% so far, and it was on battery only the entire time.
 
There's definitely an issue with mine. after 18 hours with mostly plugged in and on wifi, it's still at 45% indexing. I'm going to do a IPSW install in a bit to see if that fixes it.
 
Still indexing here. Updated right away as soon as 27 released. Don’t have a Mac so can’t check progress.

I don’t even have much on my phone. 1.1GB of photos. Biggest app is 2.9GB. I do have a 31GB game installed. That’s it really. Don’t have any other content or files saved on my phone like documents, music, videos, etc.

Don’t tell me this is gonna happen with each update or is this just likely a one off if upgrading to 27?
 
krspkbl said:
Don’t tell me this is gonna happen with each update or is this just likely a one off if upgrading to 27?
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It's probably a heavier lift since they're indexing a bunch of things for this new AI model ... but even if it every update, the way they're doing it, it's not really impacting the phone. My phone is 100% usable even during this indexing, and, indeed, is faster and smoother than iOS 26 was for me. Worst case scenario is that some stuff won't be fully or easily accessible to new Siri until the indexing completes, but I haven't noticed any deleterious effects while this indexing process is chugging away.
 
My iPad mini being finished first might be tied to it being a 512GB device vs the 2TB on iPhone and iPad Pro. They otherwise are comparable re: email accounts etc. iPhone is still at 95%, iPad Pro at 50%. iPad mini finished this morning. Been using the iPad mini and iPhone the most off charger. Seems to happen in bursts.
 
eoblaed said:
It has a huge amount to do with that. The three primary contributors to indexing time:
  • How much data needs to be indexed
  • CPU/NPU/RAM capacity of the device (i.e., how quickly can it index)
  • How long you keep it plugged into a charger (explicitly stated in Settings as a way to speed up indexing)
My phone has nearly a TB of data stored on it, most of which is photos/videos. I have many chat conversations going back well over a decade, 5 old and heavily used email accounts I track in Mail, and an extremely busy calendar schedule (30-40 meetings per week) that goes back many years. That's a massive amount of data to index, even for my 17PM, which is why it's still indexing, even now.
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It's not as simple as that. My iPad Pro M5 is a 256GB model and it's been on a charger for over a week and it's still indexing.
 
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