Single application not showing up in Spotlight I have a strange issue where Matlab stubbornly refuses to appear in Spotlight search results.

I'm not sure what information to provide besides the fact it clearly exists in Applications:



It even appears in Launchpad just fine:



I don't have anything blocked from being indexed by Spotlight:



And yet, even searching for the exact name in Spotlight only yields some crash log.



The Spotlight search also works just fine for anything else / any other apps, and it updates fine (for example, I just searched it for the screenshots I made, and it found them) so it is not just "stuck".

Any ideas?
Go to System Preferences --&gt; Spotlight --&gt; Privacy. While that's open, go to Finder --&gt; Applications and drag Matlab from Applications into Privacy. Close out System Preferences then reopen it and remove Matlab from the same place. 

This will force a reindex for Spotlight. I've seen this work for some people and not for others but it's worth a shot.