Spotlight
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
12warn against
Jan 16, 2026first mention
Oct 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use Spotlight to launch apps”
Caveats and dissent
“I use spotlight to search for the "spotlight" system preferences window.”
“I don't need Spotlight indexing. At all.”
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“The new spotlight search replaced what I previously used, made it function worse for what I used it for, and uses 30GiB of already very scarce disk space.”
“Spotlight was near-unusable when I switched as well.”
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All comments 15
“I use spotlight to search for the "spotlight" system preferences window.”
“I don't need Spotlight indexing. At all.”
“I use it sometimes to quickly do currency conversion”
“The new spotlight search replaced what I previously used, made it function worse for what I used it for, and uses 30GiB of already very scarce disk space.”
“Spotlight was near-unusable when I switched as well.”
“I got so annoyed at this recently I turned off spotlight entirely”
“Spotlight search has completely stopped working.”
“new delayed results would steal highlight focus so hitting the enter button to select something from the list became a lottery”
“I turned off Spotlight indexer completely”
“I use a calculator (these days N PP, or spotlight)”
“I use Spotlight to launch apps”
“Spotlight used to be great for quick look up of files, now it is pretty much useless for me.”
“It makes me want to create a similar landing page for Apple to fix Spotlight Search.”
“Spotlight has really been bothering me lately, for months now”
“Spotlight is completely broken in Tahoe.”