diff --git a/src/Search/Comb/Index.php b/src/Search/Comb/Index.php
index baeeeb1d4ea..3143082b915 100644
--- a/src/Search/Comb/Index.php
+++ b/src/Search/Comb/Index.php
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 namespace Statamic\Search\Comb;
 
 use Closure;
+use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
 use Statamic\Facades\File;
 use Statamic\Search\Comb\Exceptions\NoQuery;
@@ -16,6 +17,8 @@
 
 class Index extends BaseIndex
 {
+    protected ?Collection $pending = null;
+
     public function search($query)
     {
         return (new Query($this))->query($query);
@@ -111,6 +114,12 @@ public function delete($document)
 
     public function insertDocuments(Documents $documents)
     {
+        if (! is_null($this->pending)) {
+            $this->pending = $documents->union($this->pending);
+
+            return;
+        }
+
         $this->locked(function () use ($documents) {
             try {
                 $data = $this->data();
@@ -122,6 +131,23 @@ public function insertDocuments(Documents $documents)
         });
     }
 
+    public function update()
+    {
+        $this->pending = collect();
+
+        try {
+            parent::update();
+        } finally {
+            [$pending, $this->pending] = [$this->pending, null];
+        }
+
+        if ($pending->isNotEmpty()) {
+            $this->locked(fn () => $this->save($pending));
+        }
+
+        return $this;
+    }
+
     public function deleteIndex()
     {
         File::delete($this->path());
diff --git a/tests/Search/CombIndexTest.php b/tests/Search/CombIndexTest.php
index e5c23cc8365..a1b21db96c2 100644
--- a/tests/Search/CombIndexTest.php
+++ b/tests/Search/CombIndexTest.php
@@ -2,14 +2,20 @@
 
 namespace Tests\Search;
 
+use Facades\Tests\Factories\EntryFactory;
 use Illuminate\Contracts\Cache\Lock;
 use Illuminate\Contracts\Filesystem\Filesystem;
+use Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem as Files;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Bus;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
 use Mockery;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\Test;
 use Statamic\Contracts\Search\Searchable;
+use Statamic\Facades\Collection;
+use Statamic\Facades\Search;
 use Statamic\Search\Comb\Index;
 use Statamic\Search\Documents;
+use Tests\PreventSavingStacheItemsToDisk;
 use Tests\TestCase;
 
 class CombIndexTest extends TestCase
@@ -17,6 +23,7 @@ class CombIndexTest extends TestCase
     use IndexTests {
         tearDown as protected indexTestsTearDown;
     }
+    use PreventSavingStacheItemsToDisk;
 
     private $fs;
 
@@ -117,6 +124,63 @@ public function delete_rewrites_the_index_when_the_reference_is_present()
         );
     }
 
+    #[Test]
+    public function updating_on_a_sync_queue_writes_the_index_file_once()
+    {
+        $files = $this->prepareUpdate(250);
+
+        Search::index('test')->update();
+
+        $files->shouldHaveReceived('put')->once();
+        $this->assertCount(250, json_decode(file_get_contents($this->tmpDir.'/test.json'), true));
+    }
+
+    #[Test]
+    public function updating_on_a_faked_bus_deletes_the_index_and_writes_nothing()
+    {
+        Bus::fake();
+        $files = $this->prepareUpdate(3);
+
+        Search::index('test')->update();
+
+        $files->shouldNotHaveReceived('put');
+        $this->assertFileDoesNotExist($this->tmpDir.'/test.json');
+    }
+
+    #[Test]
+    public function inserting_outside_an_update_writes_immediately()
+    {
+        $files = $this->prepareUpdate(0);
+
+        Search::index('test')->insertDocuments(new Documents(['entry::a' => ['title' => 'Foo']]));
+        Search::index('test')->insertDocuments(new Documents(['entry::b' => ['title' => 'Bar']]));
+
+        $files->shouldHaveReceived('put')->twice();
+        $this->assertCount(3, json_decode(file_get_contents($this->tmpDir.'/test.json'), true));
+    }
+
+    private function prepareUpdate(int $entries)
+    {
+        $this->createIndexFile(['entry::stale' => ['title' => 'Stale']]);
+
+        config([
+            'statamic.search.chunk_size' => 100,
+            'statamic.search.drivers.local.path' => $this->tmpDir,
+            'statamic.search.indexes.test' => ['driver' => 'local', 'searchables' => 'collection:blog', 'fields' => ['title']],
+        ]);
+
+        Collection::make('blog')->save();
+
+        for ($i = 1; $i <= $entries; $i++) {
+            EntryFactory::collection('blog')->id("entry-$i")->slug("entry-$i")->data(['title' => "Entry $i"])->create();
+        }
+
+        $files = Mockery::mock(Files::class)->makePartial();
+        $this->instance('files', $files);
+
+        return $files;
+    }
+
     #[Test]
     public function inserting_holds_the_index_lock_across_the_read_and_the_write()
     {