Does iOS Spotlight search the notes in Contacts?

It would be great if iOS Spotlight was able to search through the notes in the Contacts app.
Does anyone know if and / or how to get iOS Spotlight to do this?
Thanks,
Marcantonio

I looked at that before posting my question, all are checked. Notes refers to the Notes app, not the notes in Contacts. I have tried searching for words that I have in the Contact notes and they do not appear.
I have found other discussions with the same topic. There seems to be a lot of history of this not working for Contact notes. Seems very silly that this would not work.

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