Spotlight missing after macOS Sequoia 15.6 update

I had the same problem after OS upgrade. But I finally found out that the missing Spotlight search popup windown is actually hidden out of the display, leaving a very thin line on the edge.

So you don't have to rebuild index. All I did is to press cmd+space, find the thin line on the right edge of screen, drag it back to the center of screen. Spotlight search popup will be back ! :-)

FabInxide wrote:

Great tip!

I noticed I no longer had the magnifying glass in the menu bar, but I probably removed it because I was using the keyboard shortcut.

I reactivated the magnifying glass in the menu bar, and clicking it didn't do anything.

Since I have two screens, I tried clicking the magnifying glass on both, and on one, I noticed something on the edge when I clicked... basically, SPOTLIGHT, for some reason, had moved almost completely off the screen and so I couldn't notice when it was activated.

Now I've dragged it back to the middle of the screen!

Thanks so much to you and everyone else for your help.

If you press and hold down on the Spotlight icon in the menu bar— it will return the missing window to the default location on your screen...if that is youe issue(?)

Hi.

Check your shortcut in Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts. If it’s still set to ⌘+Space, toggle it off and back on.

Hope this helps.

FabInxide wrote:

Spotlight is a service I use regularly; yesterday my MacBook received the latest update to Sequoia 15.6, and the first thing I noticed was that pressing COMMAND+SPACE no longer displayed Spotlight. Are there other users having the same problem? Is there a way to fix it?

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Original Title: Spotlight disappeared after update

Have you shut down and restarted your Mac more than once since your "update"....(?)

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac…

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

OP wrote " Thanks for your quick reply. I tried disabling and re-enabling the shortcuts, but nothing. Alt+Command+Space works perfectly, but Command+Space doesn't."

The Alt+ Command+Space ( implied ) BAR )

Mac keyboard shortcuts

• Command–Space bar: Show or hide the Spotlight search field. To perform a Spotlight search from a Finder window, press Command–Option–Space bar. 

So as of now, how are you invoking the Spotlight Search or is the computer relegated to only using the Spotlight from the Menu Bar ?

It would have been reasonable to conclude that " Command+Space doesn't." that something was installed - No

Hi, I had the same problem with Spotlight on my Mac Book Pro (M3 Max) since I updated to Sequoia 15.6.1.

The fix mentioned here did not work easily for me. I had also a kind of "glitch" on one corner of my screen. But I was not able to grab it into the center.

I had no idea how it finally works, but by pressing like 2 or 3 seconds on the spotlight icon in the menu bar, spotlight suddenly reappears in the middle of my screen.

Hope it helps, Cedric

Is the computer using a Third Party Keyboard Application that alters the Default Keyboard combinations

Like " Karabiner-Elements " ?

Can you still access it from the menu bar?

Search for anything with Spotlight on Mac - Apple Support (CA)