Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

No, not this kind of spotlight. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac If you use Spotlight to find stuff on your iPhone or iPad, you’ll be familiar with the mess of results you get when you search. Maybe ...

Note: The problem discussed below behaves differently depending on the type of email account being used. Users of POP mail accounts are indeed noticing a problem with deleted email messages appearing ...

I'm now part of the ever-growing number of macOS Sequoia users dealing with Spotlight search functionality that is completely broken. My issue started around macOS Sequoia 15.2. There isn't a known ...

While you are still in the Terminal, type "killall Spotlight" to turn off the spotlight service right then. Spotlight will suddenly dissappear from your menu bar.

Spotlight processor usage and performance problems We continue to cover an issue where Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight function consumes inordinate amounts of processor time, resulting in slower overall ...