diff --git a/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/ml_indexing_isolate.dart b/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/ml_indexing_isolate.dart
index f34bd10012..f9dfbc8503 100644
--- a/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/ml_indexing_isolate.dart
+++ b/mobile/lib/services/machine_learning/ml_indexing_isolate.dart
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ class MLIndexingIsolate extends SuperIsolate {
         FaceEmbeddingService.instance.downloadModel(forceRefresh),
         ClipImageEncoder.instance.downloadModel(forceRefresh),
       ]);
+      indexingModelsCleanedLocally = false;
       areModelsDownloaded = true;
     });
   }