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Spotlight significantly slower than it was in Mojave

I just upgraded to Catalina today and have noticed that spotlight has gotten considerably slower since. Spotlight under Mojave didn't suffer this issue. Fixing the delay should be a high priority. Search is paramount for modern file navigation.


This has been previously documented:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/379986/spotlight-is-slow-in-catalina

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.12

Posted on Mar 30, 2020 10:37 PM

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Posted on Mar 30, 2020 10:45 PM

If you just updated to Catalina, Spotlight is still indexing your drive(s). Give it some time to complete.

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Spotlight significantly slower than it was in Mojave

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