How to add an app to Spotlight on macOS
Published on Friday, July 7, 2023
TILmacOS
Some apps, such as the iOS Simulator, are not indexed by Spotlight on macOS due to their install location.
Thankfully, you can add them to the index with the mdimport
command.
~/
mdimport /System/Volumes/Data/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Applications/Simulator.app