Apple has published a new support document explaining how Spotlight indexing works across its devices, including three things it says can help the process finish more quickly. Here are the details.
How to speed up the new Spotlight’s indexing process
As Apple gears up to release iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and other operating systems announced during this year’s WWDC, the company has published a new support document with tips to speed up the indexing process.
Essentially, this new indexing process creates and continuously maintains a searchable catalog of the information stored on the device, allowing Spotlight and the new Siri AI to quickly surface apps, files, messages, photos, contacts, settings, and other content when the user performs a search.
The index is stored locally on each device, which means that the process must be completed separately on every Apple device the user owns.
