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I disabled both Spotlight Suggestions and Bing yet Spotlight -- via SpotlightNetHelper -- still attempts to connect to api.smoot.apple.com:443 and wu.apple.com:

• pilsetnieks 12y ago
  Location services? Edit: I think that you have to disable Location service for Spotlight separately in Privacy settings.
  • mukmuk 12y ago
    Good thought, but I disabled that too. Edit: Twitter discussion regarding one of these issues. Note that Spotlight is doing this despite all relevant settings disabled (spotlight suggestions, bing, privacy, and logging). https://twitter.com/marczak/status/481818945318428673 https://twitter.com/marczak/status/481818945318428673
    • pilsetnieks 12y ago
      wu.apple.com is an address associated with location service requests. If you've disabled location for spotlight, it's possible that it was something else requesting the location. No idea about that smoot thing, though.
      • blantonl 12y ago
        A quick fix would be to add wu.apple.com to your hosts file with an address of 127.0.0.1 - not long term and certainly not an overall fix.