diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.ts
index 1b1a01d6ed..c2188a3921 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/face/indexer.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import log from "@/next/log";
 import { ComlinkWorker } from "@/next/worker/comlink-worker";
 import { wait } from "@/utils/promise";
 import { type Remote } from "comlink";
+import mlIDbStorage from "services/face/db-old";
+import { defaultMLVersion } from "services/machineLearning/machineLearningService";
 import mlWorkManager from "services/machineLearning/mlWorkManager";
 import type { EnteFile } from "types/file";
 import { markIndexingFailed } from "./db";
@@ -153,8 +155,14 @@ export interface FaceIndexingStatus {
     nTotalFiles: number;
 }
 
+export const faceIndexingStatus = async (): Promise<FaceIndexingStatus> => {
+    const indexStatus0 = await mlIDbStorage.getIndexStatus(defaultMLVersion);
+    const indexStatus = convertToNewInterface(indexStatus0);
+    return indexStatus;
+};
+
 export const convertToNewInterface = (indexStatus: IndexStatus) => {
-    let phase: string;
+    let phase: FaceIndexingStatus["phase"];
     if (!indexStatus.localFilesSynced) {
         phase = "scheduled";
     } else if (indexStatus.outOfSyncFilesExists) {
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts
index 159bd7525c..ded48069f3 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/searchService.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import * as chrono from "chrono-node";
 import { t } from "i18next";
 import mlIDbStorage from "services/face/db-old";
 import type { Person } from "services/face/people";
-import { defaultMLVersion } from "services/machineLearning/machineLearningService";
 import { Collection } from "types/collection";
 import { EntityType, LocationTag, LocationTagData } from "types/entity";
 import { EnteFile } from "types/file";
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ import { getFormattedDate } from "utils/search";
 import { clipService, computeClipMatchScore } from "./clip-service";
 import { localCLIPEmbeddings } from "./embeddingService";
 import { getLatestEntities } from "./entityService";
-import { convertToNewInterface } from "./face/indexer";
+import { faceIndexingStatus } from "./face/indexer";
 import locationSearchService, { City } from "./locationSearchService";
 
 const DIGITS = new Set(["0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"]);
@@ -176,9 +175,7 @@ export async function getAllPeopleSuggestion(): Promise<Array<Suggestion>> {
 
 export async function getIndexStatusSuggestion(): Promise<Suggestion> {
     try {
-        const indexStatus0 =
-            await mlIDbStorage.getIndexStatus(defaultMLVersion);
-        const indexStatus = convertToNewInterface(indexStatus0);
+        const indexStatus = await faceIndexingStatus();
 
         let label: string;
         switch (indexStatus.phase) {
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts
index 3f3de9b460..adeb03d3aa 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/types/search/index.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { FILE_TYPE } from "@/media/file-type";
-import { IndexStatus } from "services/face/db-old";
+import type { FaceIndexingStatus } from "services/face/indexer";
 import type { Person } from "services/face/people";
 import { City } from "services/locationSearchService";
 import { LocationTagData } from "types/entity";
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export interface Suggestion {
         | DateValue
         | number[]
         | Person
-        | IndexStatus
+        | FaceIndexingStatus
         | LocationTagData
         | City
         | FILE_TYPE