I’m seeing 2 issues on my newly setup iPhone 15 Pro Max related to indexing and searching.
1. I can’t search for messages older than about 16 months. They just won’t show up even though I can see them in messages. Messages doesn’t say it’s indexing so it seems to think it finished. I tried toggling iCloud message off and on (that just doubled the storage used by Messages) and toggling the Messages Siri and search settings off. Nothing made a difference. Also the older messages, photos and videos don’t seem to get removed to free up space. For some reason only reset videos and photos are.
2. In photos, even though indexing is also “complete” the search page only shows the people and pets category. I can search for other stuff, but it doesn’t show the normal things on that page that my iPad does like categories, places, groups, etc.
Of the 2, the message one is more annoying as if I want to find an old message I need to use my Mac or iPad.
Edit:
#2 resolved itself. #1 is still a problem.