How to find anything on an Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac - Fox News

Apple has a feature that tin marque your searches a spot easier, and it's called Spotlight Search. It is available connected each iPhones, iPads, and Macs that person an iOS 8 update oregon later.

What is Spotlight Search?

The intent of Spotlight Search is to chopped down the clip wasted looking astir for a circumstantial app on your phone oregon a photograph you mightiness person sent to a person weeks ago. Instead, you tin benignant thing into Spotlight Search, which volition scan your full instrumentality for thing related to the word you've typed.

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Spotlight Search tin hunt for galore things, including your music, contacts, email, weather, calendar, maps, quality and more. It tin adjacent bring successful extracurricular results from the net and App Store. Or accidental you privation to bash a speedy mathematics equation, currency conversion, measurement conversion, oregon somesthesia conversion. In that case, Spotlight Search volition instantly springiness you the reply you're looking for.

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Start looking for contented connected your Apple instrumentality by opening the Search function. (Fox News)

Why is Spotlight Search amended than searching successful circumstantial apps?

Spotlight Search yet pulls much contented for you, giving you each the options you request connected 1 leafage alternatively than having to unfastened aggregate antithetic apps to hunt for something. Let's say, for example, you wanted to perceive to Billy Joel's opus "Piano Man." 

You tin benignant successful "Billy Joel 'Piano Man'" into your Spotlight Search. It volition springiness you a tab to spell consecutive to the opus on Apple Music and supply you with website links to his euphony videos and the Wikipedia leafage to the song's history, truthful you tin get mode much retired of your search.

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An illustration of however to hunt for contented connected your Apple device. In this case, Billy Joel's "Piano Man." (Fox News)

How to unfastened Spotlight Search connected your iPhone oregon iPad

If you person the iOS 16 update oregon above:

• It tin beryllium accessed by swiping down from the mediate of your location screen
• Click the Search circle (may besides look arsenic a fewer horizontal dots) connected the archetypal leafage of your location surface conscionable above your Phone, Email, Safari and Apple Music apps. This volition automatically unfastened Spotlight Search.

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An illustration of however to usage the Spotlight hunt relation connected your iPhone oregon iPad. (Fox News)

If you person the iOS 15 update oregon below:

• Unlock your iPhone oregon iPad to uncover your location screen
• Swipe left from the archetypal leafage of your location screen, and past you volition spot the search window.

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Instructions connected however to hunt for contented connected an Apple device. (Fox News)

How to unfastened Spotlight Search connected your Mac

• Look astatine the apical barroom going crossed your Mac location screen (where the Apple Icon, File, Edit, etc. options are)
• On the close broadside of that barroom adjacent to your Wi-Fi icon, determination should beryllium a magnifying solid icon. Click that to unfastened Spotlight Search.

Note: instructions whitethorn alteration depending connected model

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An illustration of however to unfastened the hunt relation connected a Mac machine by pressing the magnifying glass. (Fox News)

An illustration of what the Spotlight hunt relation looks similar erstwhile opened connected a Mac computer. (Fox News)

How to alteration hunt settings connected an Apple device

You tin alteration the hunt settings to bounds which apps and results look portion you're searching. Here's how:

• Go to Settings and pat Siri & Search
• Scroll down and prime an app
• Then prime Show App successful Search, Show Content successful Search, Show connected Home Screen, Suggest App, oregon Suggest Notifications.

Let america cognize however you similar this caller Apple hunt feature. We'd emotion to perceive from you.

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