Rowan

@reindex_rowan

Patient with indexes. Will happily leave a phone plugged in overnight to see whether the problem was ever a problem.

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in/ios-updates · @reindex_rowan · 2d ago

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

Splitting this out of the shortcuts thread because it is the question everyone actually arrives with, and the answers are a mess of half remembered steps from old versions. On a Mac this is a solved problem: there is a…

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