Spotlight crashing on `1` and only `1` I have a really weird spotlight problem and it is driving me insane.
When I open the spotlight search and type 1 the search box disappears as if it crashed. For example, if I intended to search for 1password, typing 1 will cause the box to disappear. However, if I type pass it works fine and finds the &quot;1Password&quot; app.
As far as I can tell this is the only character that triggers the crash.
I already tried the &quot;disable indexing of bookmarks and history&quot; fix and it doesn't help.
Is there some way to delete the spotlight index? Maybe that will help?
Any other clues I should look for?
I am on BigSur, but this also happened on Catalina, I was hoping the upgrade would fix it... but it did not. :(
Edit: adding the crash report
Process:               Spotlight [71310]
Path:                  /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight
Identifier:            com.apple.Spotlight
Version:               1.0 (2150.7.5)
Build Info:            SpotlightUI-2150007005000000~3
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Spotlight [71310]
User ID:               502

Date/Time:             2021-03-22 23:30:10.116 -0700
OS Version:            macOS 11.2.1 (20D74)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     3.0 (14Y908)
Anonymous UUID:        xxxx

Sleep/Wake UUID:       xxxx

Time Awake Since Boot: 740000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       55000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        5  Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.user-interactive-qos.overcommit

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
dyld3 mode
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSArrayM _fastCharacterContents]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x600002bb9e90'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called
If you don't get the crash on a fresh user account, you might want to force the system to rebuild the Spotlight index:

From the Apple menu, go to System Preferences
In System Preferences, select Spotlight, and chose the Privacy tab on the Spotlight screen
Click the &quot;+&quot; icon at the bottom of the screen and add a folder (any folder) to the list of folders excluded from spotlight
Once you've added the folder to the list of folders excluded from Spotlight, select that folder from the list
Click the &quot;-&quot; icon to remove the folder from the list of excluded folders.
From the System Preferences menu, select Quit.

The change to the excluded folders list should start the (long) process of rebuilding the Spotlight index. I can't promise that this will fix your problem, but it has a good shot at it.