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My #Apple iDevices have all been stuck indexing since Monday. My wife's too. Every article explains how it may take a while. I get it. I've written indexers for and used Windows Search in most of its incarnations. But for days? Seems someone didn't write a robust indexer. Reported with logs. 😔

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Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

17 Sept

Mainly a post to show others: if your indexing has been stuck at the same percentage for days, you're not alone. I've tried rebooting, toggled off a few apps in Siri or Spotlight settings to hopefully get the indexer to refresh, and toggled Siri off briefly per an older suggestion to no avail.

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

17 Sept

Connecting to my iPhone over Console on my MacBook—the only device that seems to have finished—shows that watchdog keeps killing some child searchd process for being unresponsive. But it seems that indexer just picks up where it left off. Bad.

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

18 Sept

Given the information I collected, I was abler to get a tier 2 call. Bad news: no fix. Good news: #Apple is aware of it and working on a fix. Honestly, as a long-time veteran of software deployment, while I was hoping for a fix or work around, I mainly wanted to make sure they knew about it.

Kevin Jones

@vcsjones.dev

17 Sept

I had a head start on betas but during the best period mine took over a week. I think they are trying really really hard to avoid the “the update kills your battery!” Blame game.

Jason Malinowski

@jasonmalinowski.bsky.social

18 Sept

My phone has been stuck at 43% since Monday. My iPad I think did index all the way, but did so by I guess redownloading my entire mail inbox to the tune of many tens of gigabytes of data per my router.

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

18 Sept

macOS doesn't show status, so I wrote a script that spits out a CSV. Works great with `xan` to view, sort, and filter CSV: ```sh brew install xan indexing-status -o- | xan sort -RNs complete | xan view ``` Saves date-named files by default: no change in hours. 😡

gist.github.comChecking indexing status of macOS SpotlightChecking indexing status of macOS Spotlight. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

18 Sept

Based on an article from Apple, it's not supposed to but I've suspected that as well. But my UniFi status for SSL/TLS hide a lot—obviously—but the amount of data the last week isn't abnormal. Connecting over Console, it's just *slow*. When it does appear to do something, the timing is just...bad.

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

18 Sept

Windows Indexing Service, Search, or whatever is current this iteration is so much faster even after re-indexing from scratch. I wanted to press for details about what Apple knows, but figured the tier 2 engineer wouldn't know nor could share if he did have more info.

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

18 Sept

I have mail configured to only cache the last month. But mail goes back to before Microsoft bought HoTMaiL, and I have many GBs of pictures in my "SkyDrive camera roll" on OneDrive, showing how old that is. Only a small album is cached locally.