Apple's Spotlight search feature allows you to easily search for just about anything on your Mac. Spotlight search differs from simply searching in your Finder because instead of just scanning your ...

A picture of a light, to illustrate Spotlight search. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Spotlight is Apple’s search technology for Mac and iOS, and it can help you find almost anything. Not just stuff ...

On Windows, the Start menu is how you find apps and search for files. On macOS, there's Spotlight. Spotlight debuted with OS X Tiger in 2004, and it's more or less been the same ever since — with ...

Apple in iOS 15 is making several improvements to Spotlight, aka the universal search feature that can be accessed on the iPhone or iPad's Home Screen with a downward swipe. Spotlight is a one-stop ...

Hide results from specific categories to improve privacy and search experience. You can also prevent Spotlight from searching in specific locations or folders to exclude personal files. Further ...

Spotlight does this by creating an index of all the different items and files, including documents, pictures, videos, applications, and system settings on the system, which allows it to function like ...

Spotlight is surprisingly powerful and flexible. Learn the many things your Mac's search tool can do with this collection of shortcuts, tips and tricks. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a ...

When iOS9 was released on September 16, it instantly became big news. I mean, pretty much any new Apple product is instantly big news — but iOS9 came with a whole bunch of proverbial bells and ...

Spotlight, Apple’s search technology, has been available on Macs since Mac OS X 10.4, back in 2005. For many years it remained relatively stable, offering no new features. But with OS X Yosemite, ...

Spotlight is a system-wide search system that facilitates quick item discovery on iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Unfortunately, the iOS version always lacked functionality and hasn’t been very accurate.

Perhaps it's just my experience, and perhaps it's because I simply upgrade each OS update and don't Nuke / Pave a fresh install, but Spotlight Search in macOS is completely useless. Recently placing ...

You cannot delete the iPhone's spotlight search database in the typical way. Since the search function pulls information from multiple locations saved on your phone, you can only disable each search ...