Multiple non-functional Creative Cloud apps in Spotlight

It's not one app showing multiple times, there are a bunch of different CC-related apps, you can see that if you switch Spotlight to List view:

They are located a couple of folders deep in Applications > Utilities.

Spotlight 'helpfully' (sarcasm, there) finds and shows them anyway. So, not a bug and no need for troubleshooting. Either Adobe needs to install fewer related apps, or Apple needs to not show apps nested so deep in the folder hierarchy.

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Jon Corry wrote:

I am a subscriber of Adobe Creative Cloud. For some reason, the creative cloud app shows up multiple times in spotlight. Only one of the icons actually opens the app, the others appear to be dead. I have the same issue on both a MacBookPro and a iMac. Why does this occur and is there any way to limit or remove the unusable/non-functional icons from Spotlight? When I open the applications folder in finder, these are not there. I'm using MacOS Tahoe 26.1.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/d8b15e66-d9f9-408f-93d9-dd77e152ca2c

You can look for some update to your third party apps and see if it sorts the interaction with the current macOS

For your third party app—if in doubt search the developers website or contact their: Support/Help/FAQ/Known issues/compatibility/updates… Contact a third-party vendor - Apple Support

The current stable release of Tahoe including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 26.1

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

To be proactive you can file a bug report / submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

No resolve—

you can try Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

There are known issues with the new Apps.app as well as many complaints

you can submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple