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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. 😔

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.

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.

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.

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.

But if you're right, @jasonmalinowski.bsky.social, #Apple is potentially going to cost a lot of their consumers $$$. Watching my iPad that basically sits around doing nothing most times, it's already downloaded ~3GB since this afternoon. I'm on fiber now, but Comcast Cable would be charging soon.

Now I’m a bit less sure in that UniFi is now only showing around 10 gigabytes in the last week which was less than the 60 or so. But it did trip some network monitoring on my mail server so still not trivial. And definitely not good if you only have cellular…

Their silence is frustrating. Being new-ish to the Apple ecosystem, is this normal? Or is this a case of: for normal consumer scenarios they're just fine, but when you start to peek behind the curtain you'll just be disappointed?

Apple doesn't do the best job communicating known issues. That said, I'm trying to think of a company that does a great job...throwing stones in glass houses and all that.