diff --git a/crates/milli/src/update/new/document_change.rs b/crates/milli/src/update/new/document_change.rs
index 899655db1..1644b2254 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/update/new/document_change.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/update/new/document_change.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 use bumpalo::Bump;
 use heed::RoTxn;
 
-use super::document::{DocumentFromDb, DocumentFromVersions, MergedDocument, Versions};
+use super::document::{
+    Document as _, DocumentFromDb, DocumentFromVersions, MergedDocument, Versions,
+};
+use super::extract::perm_json_p;
 use super::vector_document::{
     MergedVectorDocument, VectorDocumentFromDb, VectorDocumentFromVersions,
 };
@@ -164,6 +167,80 @@ impl<'doc> Update<'doc> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Returns whether the updated version of the document is different from the current version for the passed subset of fields.
+    ///
+    /// `true` if at least one top-level-field that is a exactly a member of field or a parent of a member of field changed.
+    /// Otherwise `false`.
+    pub fn has_changed_for_fields<'t, Mapper: FieldIdMapper>(
+        &self,
+        fields: Option<&[&str]>,
+        rtxn: &'t RoTxn,
+        index: &'t Index,
+        mapper: &'t Mapper,
+    ) -> Result<bool> {
+        let mut changed = false;
+        let mut cached_current = None;
+        let mut updated_selected_field_count = 0;
+
+        for entry in self.updated().iter_top_level_fields() {
+            let (key, updated_value) = entry?;
+
+            if perm_json_p::select_field(key, fields, &[]) == perm_json_p::Selection::Skip {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            updated_selected_field_count += 1;
+            let current = match cached_current {
+                Some(current) => current,
+                None => self.current(rtxn, index, mapper)?,
+            };
+            let current_value = current.top_level_field(key)?;
+            let Some(current_value) = current_value else {
+                changed = true;
+                break;
+            };
+
+            if current_value.get() != updated_value.get() {
+                changed = true;
+                break;
+            }
+            cached_current = Some(current);
+        }
+
+        if !self.has_deletion {
+            // no field deletion, so fields that don't appear in `updated` cannot have changed
+            return Ok(changed);
+        }
+
+        if changed {
+            return Ok(true);
+        }
+
+        // we saw all updated fields, and set `changed` if any field wasn't in `current`.
+        // so if there are as many fields in `current` as in `updated`, then nothing changed.
+        // If there is any more fields in `current`, then they are missing in `updated`.
+        let has_deleted_fields = {
+            let current = match cached_current {
+                Some(current) => current,
+                None => self.current(rtxn, index, mapper)?,
+            };
+
+            let mut current_selected_field_count = 0;
+            for entry in current.iter_top_level_fields() {
+                let (key, _) = entry?;
+
+                if perm_json_p::select_field(key, fields, &[]) == perm_json_p::Selection::Skip {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                current_selected_field_count += 1;
+            }
+
+            current_selected_field_count != updated_selected_field_count
+        };
+
+        Ok(has_deleted_fields)
+    }
+
     pub fn updated_vectors(
         &self,
         doc_alloc: &'doc Bump,
diff --git a/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/faceted/extract_facets.rs b/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/faceted/extract_facets.rs
index f2132ce38..b865d0a35 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/faceted/extract_facets.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/faceted/extract_facets.rs
@@ -97,6 +97,15 @@ impl FacetedDocidsExtractor {
                 },
             ),
             DocumentChange::Update(inner) => {
+                if !inner.has_changed_for_fields(
+                    Some(attributes_to_extract),
+                    rtxn,
+                    index,
+                    context.db_fields_ids_map,
+                )? {
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+
                 extract_document_facets(
                     attributes_to_extract,
                     inner.current(rtxn, index, context.db_fields_ids_map)?,
diff --git a/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/searchable/extract_word_docids.rs b/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/searchable/extract_word_docids.rs
index 05e2374dc..06fb747c6 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/searchable/extract_word_docids.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/searchable/extract_word_docids.rs
@@ -351,6 +351,15 @@ impl WordDocidsExtractors {
                 )?;
             }
             DocumentChange::Update(inner) => {
+                if !inner.has_changed_for_fields(
+                    document_tokenizer.attribute_to_extract,
+                    &context.rtxn,
+                    context.index,
+                    context.db_fields_ids_map,
+                )? {
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+
                 let mut token_fn = |fname: &str, fid, pos, word: &str| {
                     cached_sorter.insert_del_u32(
                         fid,
diff --git a/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/searchable/extract_word_pair_proximity_docids.rs b/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/searchable/extract_word_pair_proximity_docids.rs
index dcd9e3a78..e58c0efd2 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/searchable/extract_word_pair_proximity_docids.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/update/new/extract/searchable/extract_word_pair_proximity_docids.rs
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ impl SearchableExtractor for WordPairProximityDocidsExtractor {
                 )?;
             }
             DocumentChange::Update(inner) => {
+                if !inner.has_changed_for_fields(
+                    document_tokenizer.attribute_to_extract,
+                    rtxn,
+                    index,
+                    context.db_fields_ids_map,
+                )? {
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+
                 let document = inner.current(rtxn, index, context.db_fields_ids_map)?;
                 process_document_tokens(
                     document,