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Apple Rebuilds Search Infrastructure Across Platforms

Apple today announced that it has rebuilt the search infrastructure that powers key features like Spotlight, Photos, and Mail across all of its major next-generation software platforms.

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The company says the index has been rearchitected to be more stable, efficient, and comprehensive, covering both old and new content. After updating, the new infrastructure will begin reindexing device content automatically.

New content will be indexed "almost immediately," Apple says, meaning users' files will become searchable much faster than before. After you update, the new search infrastructure goes to work indexing the content of your device.

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Top Rated Comments

3 hours ago at 10:34 am
I hope this works because the search function is terrible, especially in Mail. I have to use the outlook app to search my hotmail email properly.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
2 hours ago at 10:47 am

Don't really care, I rarely ever use search on device
thank you for sharing this critical info
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
2 hours ago at 11:00 am
They rebuilt spotlight last year too and they made it 2x worse
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
2 hours ago at 10:46 am
It seems clear that they have integrated vector based indexing, so that Siri AI and other search features are able to find documents based on semantic searching instead of only keyword-based searching. Should be a huge improvement.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
3 hours ago at 10:34 am
Maybe the photos tab in a Messages thread will finally show all the photos that are actually in the thread.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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3 hours ago at 10:34 am
IT’S HAPPENING!

Maybe?

Maybe this time?

Finally?
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)