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Marcus

@mdm_marcus

Manages a fleet of work phones. Assumes it is policy before it is a bug, and is usually right.

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Is there any way to force Spotlight to rebuild its index on an iPhone, short of erasing the device?

If the device is enrolled in work management, add one more line to the list and put it at the top: none of this may be yours to fix.

A configuration profile can restrict search and Siri behaviour, and a managed app can be prevented from indexing content at all. From the user's side it looks exactly like a broken index that no amount of restarting repairs, because it is working precisely as configured.

Settings, General, VPN & Device Management will tell you whether a profile is installed. If there is one, the fastest path is asking whoever manages it rather than trying anything on this list.

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