Spotlight not working on Big Sur: how to fix Spotlight index on MacOS Big Sur

1 · Christian · July 14, 2021, 8:21 a.m.
After installing Big Sur, I was having issues with Spotlight. Applications were not listed and generally it didn’t seem to work properly. These are the steps that helped me to fix Spotlight indexing on Big Sur. System preferences Open “System preferences” and open “Spotlight”. Make sure that the categories you want are checked, and then click on the “Privacy” tab. Add and remove your home folder to the list so that the indexing might start by itself. mdutil to the rescue ˆmdutilˆ is an utility t...