Spotlight doesn't open - MacBook Pro M2 Ventura 13.4

Hello everyone,

Yesterday my spotlight stopped working (both normal and safe mode). Both clicking on icon on Menu Bar and cmd + space doesn't work. I tried following tips:

  • restarting laptop
  • forcing to quit using Activity Monitor: SystemUIServer and Spotlight
  • Rebuilding indexes using terminal and sudo mdutil -E
  • Hovering Macintosh hd to Privacy in System preferences, then deleting it
  • Fixing disk using Disk Utility & First Aid


Do you have any idea how we can fix it? Please consider that I have FileVault enabled.

Posted on May 30, 2023 10:02 AM

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Posted on May 31, 2023 12:26 AM

Hi,


I resolved for me. I have a MacBook and this was happened when I left opened the laptop screen.

When I closed display Spotlight have started to work again.


The problem was that with 2 screens the window was automatically moved on the right end of the laptop display, totally hidden.


Have a nice day

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