I can’t be the only one that finds it annoying that Apple’s Spotlight Search interprets sketch’s files as photos?
Rather than seeing the name of the document I only see a thumbnail, which is mostly useless to identify the file.
Is there anyway to fix this?
Hi Pontus,
As far as I know, you cannot make Spotlight display the name of the results for the Image category results, but there’s a middle-ground option: click on the Spotlight options to expand category results.
When you see the Image results, click on the option to Show more and then click on Search in app. Once you click on Search in app, you’ll see a Finder window and you can quickly group Sketch documents together by ordering the list by Kind
Sample image for the Show more :
Sample image for the Search in app :
Sample image that shows the final Finder window that displays Sketch documents and their filenames
I hope this helps
Thanks for the reply! I was aware of the workaround, but it’s still a bit inconvenient. In addition of 2 extra clicks - When using “Search in App” Spotlight returns all photo-type (and movies) that matches the name unfortunately. Is there a specific reason MacOS identifies the sketch files as photos - and not a presentation or document?