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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. 😔

Heath Stewart

@heaths.dev

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.

17/9/26, 3:24 pm0 reposts1 like

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.