diff --git a/crates/milli/src/index.rs b/crates/milli/src/index.rs
index d77b6b1da..dd3a6f299 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/index.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/index.rs
@@ -1689,6 +1689,7 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
     use crate::error::{Error, InternalError};
     use crate::index::{DEFAULT_MIN_WORD_LEN_ONE_TYPO, DEFAULT_MIN_WORD_LEN_TWO_TYPOS};
     use crate::update::new::indexer;
+    use crate::update::settings::InnerIndexSettings;
     use crate::update::{
         self, IndexDocumentsConfig, IndexDocumentsMethod, IndexerConfig, Setting, Settings,
     };
@@ -1749,8 +1750,8 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
             let db_fields_ids_map = self.inner.fields_ids_map(&rtxn)?;
             let mut new_fields_ids_map = db_fields_ids_map.clone();
 
-            let embedders = EmbeddingConfigs::default();
-            /// TODO: fetch configs from the index
+            let embedders =
+                InnerIndexSettings::from_index(&self.inner, &rtxn, None)?.embedding_configs;
             let mut indexer =
                 indexer::DocumentOperation::new(self.index_documents_config.update_method);
             indexer.add_documents(&documents).unwrap();
@@ -1830,7 +1831,9 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
             let db_fields_ids_map = self.inner.fields_ids_map(&rtxn)?;
             let mut new_fields_ids_map = db_fields_ids_map.clone();
 
-            let embedders = EmbeddingConfigs::default();
+            let embedders =
+                InnerIndexSettings::from_index(&self.inner, &rtxn, None)?.embedding_configs;
+
             let mut indexer =
                 indexer::DocumentOperation::new(self.index_documents_config.update_method);
             let external_document_ids: Vec<_> =
diff --git a/crates/milli/src/update/index_documents/transform.rs b/crates/milli/src/update/index_documents/transform.rs
index 1b041afcc..38bf90435 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/update/index_documents/transform.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/update/index_documents/transform.rs
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ impl<'a, 'i> Transform<'a, 'i> {
             fst_new_external_documents_ids_builder.insert(key, value)
         })?;
 
-        let old_inner_settings = InnerIndexSettings::from_index(self.index, wtxn)?;
+        let old_inner_settings = InnerIndexSettings::from_index(self.index, wtxn, None)?;
         let fields_ids_map = self.fields_ids_map;
         let primary_key_id = self.index.primary_key(wtxn)?.and_then(|name| fields_ids_map.id(name));
         let mut new_inner_settings = old_inner_settings.clone();
diff --git a/crates/milli/src/update/mod.rs b/crates/milli/src/update/mod.rs
index 772a73236..5888a20db 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/update/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/update/mod.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ pub(crate) mod facet;
 mod index_documents;
 mod indexer_config;
 pub mod new;
-mod settings;
+pub(crate) mod settings;
 mod update_step;
 mod word_prefix_docids;
 mod words_prefix_integer_docids;
diff --git a/crates/milli/src/update/new/indexer/mod.rs b/crates/milli/src/update/new/indexer/mod.rs
index dfc3d9b02..18402da5f 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/update/new/indexer/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/update/new/indexer/mod.rs
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ where
     }
 
     // used to update the localized and weighted maps while sharing the update code with the settings pipeline.
-    let mut inner_index_settings = InnerIndexSettings::from_index(index, wtxn)?;
+    let mut inner_index_settings = InnerIndexSettings::from_index(index, wtxn, Some(embedders))?;
     inner_index_settings.recompute_facets(wtxn, index)?;
     inner_index_settings.recompute_searchables(wtxn, index)?;
     index.put_field_distribution(wtxn, &field_distribution)?;
diff --git a/crates/milli/src/update/settings.rs b/crates/milli/src/update/settings.rs
index 2a0f38457..9d550f9fb 100644
--- a/crates/milli/src/update/settings.rs
+++ b/crates/milli/src/update/settings.rs
@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@ impl<'a, 't, 'i> Settings<'a, 't, 'i> {
     {
         self.index.set_updated_at(self.wtxn, &OffsetDateTime::now_utc())?;
 
-        let old_inner_settings = InnerIndexSettings::from_index(self.index, self.wtxn)?;
+        let old_inner_settings = InnerIndexSettings::from_index(self.index, self.wtxn, None)?;
 
         // never trigger re-indexing
         self.update_displayed()?;
@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ impl<'a, 't, 'i> Settings<'a, 't, 'i> {
 
         let embedding_config_updates = self.update_embedding_configs()?;
 
-        let mut new_inner_settings = InnerIndexSettings::from_index(self.index, self.wtxn)?;
+        let mut new_inner_settings = InnerIndexSettings::from_index(self.index, self.wtxn, None)?;
         new_inner_settings.recompute_facets(self.wtxn, self.index)?;
 
         let primary_key_id = self
@@ -1427,7 +1427,11 @@ pub(crate) struct InnerIndexSettings {
 }
 
 impl InnerIndexSettings {
-    pub fn from_index(index: &Index, rtxn: &heed::RoTxn<'_>) -> Result<Self> {
+    pub fn from_index(
+        index: &Index,
+        rtxn: &heed::RoTxn<'_>,
+        embedding_configs: Option<EmbeddingConfigs>,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
         let stop_words = index.stop_words(rtxn)?;
         let stop_words = stop_words.map(|sw| sw.map_data(Vec::from).unwrap());
         let allowed_separators = index.allowed_separators(rtxn)?;
@@ -1441,7 +1445,10 @@ impl InnerIndexSettings {
         let mut faceted_fields_ids = index.faceted_fields_ids(rtxn)?;
         let exact_attributes = index.exact_attributes_ids(rtxn)?;
         let proximity_precision = index.proximity_precision(rtxn)?.unwrap_or_default();
-        let embedding_configs = embedders(index.embedding_configs(rtxn)?)?;
+        let embedding_configs = match embedding_configs {
+            Some(embedding_configs) => embedding_configs,
+            None => embedders(index.embedding_configs(rtxn)?)?,
+        };
         let existing_fields: HashSet<_> = index
             .field_distribution(rtxn)?
             .into_iter()