Spotlight search indexation of external picture NSFW

Spotlight search does not search the web for images. It only searches the local computer.

Those are not NFSW images. Those appear to be some kind of image sticker pack embedded inside a local app, and most likely even used on the computer in some way.

sébastien85 wrote:

Hello,

This is happening on many computer of our company (in france) and despite I've never been personally on this website previously I've never been to prior discovering this !

FWIW, Spotlight scans the entire web. You don't have to have visited a site for it to find images. See this page for possible help.

About Sensitive Content Warning on Apple devices - Apple Support

I would also suggest if you are looking for images on your Mac you use Finder search instead.

Unless you need this option checked try unchecking Websites in the Spotlight Search Results settings pane and see if that makes a difference.

etresoft wrote:

Spotlight search does not search the web for images. It only searches the local computer.

You could be right. Then what is the "Websites" option for? Searching websites in an open browser, or cached pages?

dialabrain wrote:

You could be right. Then what is the "Websites" option for? Searching websites in an open browser, or cached pages?

I'm not. I was in a hurry. When I repeat the test with the name of a certain individual who has recently achieved some notoriety, I get plenty of pictures in a Spotlight search. But those pictures are definitely not on my computer.

sébastien85 wrote:

Really those are pictures coming from mangathailand . com website, and really really really, I've NEVER been to this website, I swear. :)

The pictures in your screenshot aren't that bad. And they do look like what is called "GIFs" these days. On your phone, in Message, you can choose the "#images" option to see many such junk images.

That mangathailand website just has a bunch of covers of manga books. They all have a certain "look" don't they? If you look closely, a few of them are a bit "risqué", comme on dit. Alas, that is just standards young adult reading material in 2025. They're books for teenagers. It's an enormously big business.

Since you know where the images are coming from, you can simply block that website at work. There is a reason why so many companies sell these kinds of DNS blockers. This is also why they are all transitioning to selling AI-based blockers.

etresoft wrote:

dialabrain wrote:

You could be right. Then what is the "Websites" option for? Searching websites in an open browser, or cached pages?

I'm not. I was in a hurry. When I repeat the test with the name of a certain individual who has recently achieved some notoriety, I get plenty of pictures in a Spotlight search. But those pictures are definitely not on my computer.

Okay, thanks.

sébastien85 wrote:

Have you notice this ?

I don't think I've ever used Spotlight to search for web images. I don't know if I've even noticed that I could. I don't know where these results are coming from. I tried identical searches in Google and it doesn't seem to be Google data.

Earlier, I suggested that you could just block mangathailand, but I don't think that would work. I think these images are being served from Apple itself. I think this might be Apple's own web search. I had heard about Apple crawling the web but never thought much about it.

Even if I try to search for certain specific anime series, I can't get any NSFW results from Spotlight.

Using Sequoia 15.2, the current version, for the moment

Using the same ⌘ + space bar, image with single space after the word image

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I can not comment on the Usages of Google Chrome on macOS Sequoia 15.2 or any other version of the same

I believe you. :)

Never mind. I see what it's for.