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Fix iOS 27 stuck on “Indexing in Progress”

Learn what to do if your iPhone or iPad running iOS 27 or iPadOS 27 is stuck on the “Indexing in Progress” status, and you notice an overall system slowness.

I updated my iPhone and iPad Pro to the new iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 developer beta on day one. Soon after updating, I started seeing an “Indexing in Progress” banner at the top of the Settings app. It reads:

Indexing in Progress
You can use your iPhone as you normally would. Indexing improves search and can take a while. Longer charging sessions help indexing go faster. Learn more…

Tapping “Learn more…” takes you to an (unhelpful) Apple Support page that’s about rebuilding the Spotlight index on Mac.

On top of that, I noticed that a simple search, like finding a contact in the Phone app, took longer than it should. I assume this happened because my device was still indexing the files.

If you’re facing the same set of problems, this is what can help.

Leave it charging overnight

This is the most effective and the official solution that even Apple mentions in the banner itself.

Simply plug your iPhone into a charger and leave it unused overnight so indexing can happen smoothly. You may have to repeat this for a few days.

Don’t force restart your iPhone

Force restarting your iPhone may cause the entire indexing process to reinitiate. So don’t do that unless, of course, your device has frozen or becomes unresponsive. Normal restarting should not be an issue.

Clean up your photo library, Mail app, etc.

iOS 27 indexing will take a long time if you have several thousand photos & videos, texts, and emails across multiple email accounts in the Apple Mail app.

You can help accelerate the process by deleting media you don’t need. Another tip is to remove email accounts you don’t use but have added to the Mail app. You can just re-add the account later.

Check the exact status of your indexing process

Even though the iOS 27 Settings app doesn’t clearly say how far along the indexing process is, you can use your Mac to determine that. We have outlined everything in the full step-by-step tutorial here: How to see iPhone ‘Indexing in Progress’ status in iOS 27

Update to iOS 27 beta 2

The second iteration of iOS 27 beta is already available now.

Both my iPhone and iPad finished indexing before beta 2, and I have no way to confirm. But some user reports on X (Twitter) suggest that Apple is no longer showing the “Indexing in Progress” banner at the top of the Settings app. They seem to have hidden it so the user is not left confused — and let indexing continue in the background, as it has always done, even before iOS 27.

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Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2026/06/24/fix-indexing-in-progress-iphone/

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iOS 27: Shared iCloud photo album will take up your iCloud space

Apple has sneakily made changes to the shared iCloud Photos album in the name of an ‘upgrade,’ which could be worse than you think!

If you have used Shared Albums in the past, you know that an album can have up to 5000 photos and videos, and most importantly, they don’t count towards your own iCloud storage limit (which may be 5 GB or whatever iCloud+ or Apple One plan you have subscribed to).

This fact is also prominently displayed on Apple’s website, as evidenced by the screenshot below.

But all this is about to change in the name of ‘upgrade.’

Backstory…

I have been using shared iCloud albums since 2014, and I still have the albums I created in the erstwhile iPhoto app on my MacBook Pro.

As mentioned, photos saved in these old shared albums still appear on all my devices decades later and don’t count toward my iCloud storage.

After installing iOS 27 developer beta on my iPhone, I went to the Shared Albums section of the Photos app, and I noticed a couple of things I don’t like.

Upgrade Shared Album: This is a trick to lose free storage!

This option seems positive and something you will be enticed to activate for your existing shared album; after all, who doesn’t like an upgrade!

But there is a catch.

If you start editing your existing/old shared album and tap the ‘Upgrade Shared Album,’ a screen tells you the benefits in big words that you will now be able to share full-resolution photos and videos, or share the invitation using other apps like WhatsApp. All this sounds great.

But down in a small text, it also says that “the owner of the shared album will provide iCloud storage for any new items added to this shared album.”

This means shared albums are no longer free as far as cloud storage is concerned. Instead, it will count towards your iCloud storage, which is a massive downgrade. If it didn’t count towards the original album creator’s iCloud space, there would have been no need to put this disclaimer!

In other words, no more free storage to share photos long term without eating up your iCloud space!

And remember, Apple already does things like enabling iCloud Photos and iPhone backups by default, so you quickly fill your iCloud storage and then pay them a monthly fee to keep using iCloud (more on it in 19 things I dislike about Apple). If you don’t pay or free up space, features like iCloud Notes won’t sync across devices, and you won’t even be able to send or receive emails on your iCloud Mail account.

Share Albums now need iCloud Photos to be turned on

Since I won’t ‘upgrade‘ (read downgrade for me) my existing shared iCloud albums until Apple forces me, I thought of creating a new one in the Photos app on my iPhone running iOS 27.

Like the good old days, I didn’t want to nuke this shared album after 30 days, so I tried turning off the “Make Album Temporary” switch, but it nudged me to activate iCloud Photos, which again makes it clear that if you want to create long-term shared albums, you’ll have to allocate space for it in your existing iCloud storage. No more free cloud storage!

Back in the day, you could create new shared albums without having to activate iCloud Photos.

Of course, Apple is still generous enough to let you create a shared album for free for 30 days without requiring you to activate iCloud Photos and without consuming your iCloud storage (similarly, it offers unlimited iCloud storage for creating a full device backup, so you can upgrade to a new iPhone). But remember to ask your friends and family, with whom you have shared the album, to save the photos to their devices within 30 days, or else they will be deleted.

I don’t use iCloud Photos on my devices (I have my reasons, which I will share in another post), so I can’t create permanent shared iCloud albums anymore, as I have been able to do for more than a decade.

Apple, please stop messing up things we love…

Apple is doing very well financially. Customers consistently rate them very highly on satisfaction surveys. Still, the company does everything it can to squeeze as much as possible from its users. Changes to old features like this one feel unnecessary and ultimately make the experience more frustrating for loyal consumers.

What do you think about this new change?

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Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2026/06/23/shared-icloud-album-consume-icloud-space/