Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/16/can-you-disable-spotlight-and-siri-in-macos-tahoe/

#HackerNews #macOS #Tahoe #Spotlight #Siri #Disable #TechTips

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/

#HackerNews #staffengineer #spotlight #softwareengineering #careerdevelopment #professionalgrowth

Well, by accident I spotted a 1998 file named Greg Bear's Pep Talk.doc in Time Machine on my Mac and decided to use #Finder to find it.

Nope.

After plenty research on how-to, some Apple, some Stack Exchange etc., I've come to the conclusion that Finder #Search is broken. It won't find the file even if it is the default directory for the search, and certainly not when searching This Mac.

I found a tip to use Spotlight (I have Tahoe installed). #Spotlight actually works like a charm, finding by the time I typed the b in Greg Bear. What gives, #Apple? Are you abandoning Finder Search?

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Last month Apple previewed a bunch of new features coming to Spotlight that could make third-party apps like Raycast less useful on Macs. So maybe it's not surprising that Raycast has launched a new beta for Windows. https://www.notebookcheck.net/One-of-the-best-productivity-tools-for-macOS-now-comes-to-Windows-11.1045410.0.html#Raycast#Launcher#RaycastForWindows#macOS#Spotlight