The indexing is done correctly, but when you type in Spotlight Search no results. It is necessary at each start to enter the terminal this:
Defaults write com.apple.Spotlight EnableSpotlightUI -bool true
Killall Spotlight
Only less for the Spotlight to display the results
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Original Title: Macosx 26 Problem Spotlight
MacBook Pro (M3 Max, 2023)
I also had no results in Spotlight file search (though the Files pane shows suggestions and recents). I triggered an index rebuild by adding my internal drive to System Settings > Spotlight > Search Privacy then removing it. Spotlight showed an Indexing progress bar for a while (driven by appropriate processes like spotlightknowledged running mainly on my efficiency cores), after which...still no results from a Spotlight search.
Rather than Terminal, I quit Spotlight and spotlightknowledged processes in Activity Monitor, after which expected search results were shown.
Having said that, using the search bar in a Finder window (top right) produced expected results initially (before rebuilding the Spotlight index) and still does.
A bug report can be filed with Apple here:
Same problem for me after upgrading to Tahoe. No results for any document search, just empty. Application search works fine but icloud documents does not show up anything. Tried to kill spotlight from activity monitor as advised above but did not work for me. It is a clear bug that prevents the results to appear.
Finder search for documents on left-top corner works fine for me too.
Spotlight Search not displaying results on macOS despite indexing
