Photos is endlessly analyzing the library. Search is limited.

I updated all my devices and I was super excited to try out Apple’s new Intelligence features for searching my photos library. For some reason though, it seems like the Photos app is hung up and is endlessly analyzing the library, so searching several other great features are extremely limited or unusable at this point.

Even a simple search for “Charlie wearing red“ comes up with no results. Charlie is my daughter and I have her labeled as such in the people section of the app, and there are tens of thousands of photos of her that show up when I click on her face in the people in pet section.

Another example, I get the message above when I try a simple search for “Bella on the beach” (my dog). Even though I know that there are hundreds of photos of her on the beach, it only gives me about a dozen, with a message at the bottom of the screen that says “some results may not appear”

I’m also unable to create new memories without immediately being shown the message above

and the wallpaper suggestions section of the Photos app dashboard shows nothing.

I do have about 160,000 photographs and about 15,000 videos in my iCloud photos library, which is all synced to the cloud and is being properly synced on all of my devices. But I’ve had difficulty using ‘search’ and some of the other new features of the Photos appever since upgrading to iOS 18, and it’s still happening on iOS 18.1.

Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this problem?