Apple explains how to speed up Spotlight indexing

The company has published a new support document to explain how Spotlight indexing works and what users can do to make the process finish sooner. Apple warns that, on devices with a lot of data, this task can take hours or even days.

• These are Apple’s recommendations for speeding up the process:

• Leave the device unused.

• Keep it plugged into power.

Connect it to the internet via Wi-Fi or Ethernet, especially if it needs to download emails or other data to incorporate into the index.

Indexing continuously creates and maintains a local catalog of the content stored on the device.

The index is generated and stored independently on each device. Therefore, if a user has multiple Apple devices, each one must complete its own indexing after an initial installation or a major system update.

Apple notes that subsequent incremental updates to the index are usually much faster than the initial process.

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