Definition of Spotlight on macos Sierra
Hello
I had been using spotlight to search for words in El Capitan without any problems before. However I just upgraded to Sierra and spotlight returns no definition of the word. I did a clean install, but no changes in the light of the preferences. All options are selected as they come by default. It was a feature that I used all the time and it helped me so much. All the solutions I could try?
Thank you.
Hi agokgoz!
I see that you are unable to search using Spotlight definitions under macOS Sierra. I know it's important to have the ability to look up definitions of words in Spotlight, and I'm happy to help you. In order to further isolate the issue, please create a new account manager and test to see if the problem persists in the new user account. Here are the instructions to do this:
How to test a question in another account on your Mac.
Thank you for using communities of Apple Support.
See you soon!
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