crash – Highlight crashes every time a search is performed (different elements works, corresponding to opening an app from the brand new tahoe highlight operate)

Highlight crashes every time I attempt to conduct a search to do something whether or not it’s opening a file, a doc or search one thing on-line.

Tried thus far:

1. Reindexing, full reindexing, deleted spotlightv100, booted up in safe-mode the difficulty nonetheless persists, SIP is on. I’m on an M2 MBA 15.

Course of: Highlight [980]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Highlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Highlight
Identifier: com.apple.Highlight
Model: 1.0 (181.0.2)
Construct Data: SpotlightApp-181000002000000~25
Code Sort: ARM-64 (Native)
Function: Default
Mum or dad Course of: launchd [1]
Coalition: com.apple.Highlight [946]
Consumer ID: 501

Date/Time: 2025-09-19 08:12:06.5626 +0700 Launch Time:
2025-09-19 08:10:41.2854 +0700 {Hardware} Mannequin: Mac14,15 OS
Model: macOS 26.0 (25A354) Launch Sort: Consumer

Crash Reporter Key: 565C1C8B-9EEE-B8E0-B461-D731CDD541C1 Incident
Identifier: 5C23D618-E891-464F-A500-D67774263BBD

Time Awake Since Boot: 160 seconds

System Integrity Safety: enabled

Triggered by Thread: 0

Exception Sort: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP) Exception Codes:
0x0000000000000001, 0x00000001045c5fbc

Termination Motive: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 5, Hint/BPT lure: 5
Terminating Course of: exc handler [980]

I’ve observed that the “terminating course of: exc handler ()” adjustments relying what search I do, nevertheless the top result’s at all times the identical, that it crashes.

Highlight Question check by Mints Utility instruments:

Highlight question returned 9 outcomes:
/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestA.rtf
/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestB.pdf
/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestC.txt
/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestD.html
/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestE.docx
/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestF.numbers
/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestG.pages
/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestEXIF.jpg
/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestMD.txt Highlight search
time taken = 0.1515059471130371 seconds.

Imported ‘/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestG.pages’ of
kind ‘com.apple.iwork.pages.sffpages’ with plugIn
/System/Library/Highlight/iWork.mdimporter. Imported
‘/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestB.pdf’ of kind
‘com.adobe.pdf’ with plugIn /System/Library/Highlight/PDF.mdimporter.
Imported ‘/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestD.html’ of kind
‘public.html’ with plugIn
/System/Library/Highlight/RichText.mdimporter. Imported
‘/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestMD.txt’ of kind
‘public.plain-text’ with plugIn
/System/Library/Highlight/RichText.mdimporter. Imported
‘/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestA.rtf’ of kind
‘public.rtf’ with plugIn
/System/Library/Highlight/RichText.mdimporter. Imported
‘/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestC.txt’ of kind
‘public.plain-text’ with plugIn
/System/Library/Highlight/RichText.mdimporter. Imported
‘/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestF.numbers’ of kind
‘com.apple.iwork.numbers.sffnumbers’ with plugIn
/System/Library/Highlight/iWork.mdimporter. Imported
‘/Customers/m/MintsSpotlightTest4syzFiles/SpotTestE.docx’ of kind
‘org.openxmlformats.wordprocessingml.doc’ with plugIn
/System/Library/Highlight/Workplace.mdimporter.