If you’re jailbreaking an iOS 16 device with the Dopamine v2 jailbreak, and one of the first things on your agenda is to remove the Home Screen’s pill-shaped Search button that typically appears where the Home Screen’s page dots normally appear, then there’s a new jailbreak tweak for that.
Spotlight Search
How to use App Shortcuts in Spotlight Search on iPhone and iPad
Learn everything you need to know about App Shortcuts in Spotlight with this tutorial. Enhance your search experience and quickly trigger actions or navigate to specific sections of the app on your iPhone or iPad running iOS 17 or iPadOS 17.
How to fix slow Spotlight Search on iPhone and iPad
Spotlight Search is meant to help you find apps, contacts, emails, files and perform other basic actions quickly on your iPhone or iPad. However, if you're facing noticeable delays when using Spotlight Search, here are all the solutions to fix this issue and ensure iOS Search works fast and smoothly.
How to exclude specific files, folders, disks, and categories from showing up in Spotlight search results on Mac
You can customize Mac's Spotlight to stop specific files from showing up when you do a search. In this tutorial, we will tell you more about it and show you how to hide folders, files, disks, and file types from appearing in macOS Spotlight Search.
How to stop an app’s data from showing in Spotlight Search on iPhone or iPad
iPhone Search, accessed by swiping down on the Home Screen or tapping the iOS 16 Home Screen Search button, even displays in-app content.
For example, if you type birthday, it will bring up your calendar birthday events, which is the data from inside the Calendar app. Similarly, entering a person's name will show their contact card, which is the content from your Contacts app. The same is true for other Apple and third-party apps.
While this is helpful in most cases, you may not want iOS Search to show information from some apps for privacy or personal reasons. In this tutorial, we will share how to prevent an app's content from appearing in iPhone or iPad Spotlight Search.
How to remove the Search button from your iPhone Home Screen in iOS 16
iOS 16 has added a Search button on the iPhone Home Screen, just above the Dock. If you aren’t a fan of this, we show you how to hide it and get back the dots that signify the number of visible Home Screen pages.
How to fix an app not showing in iPhone Spotlight Search
When you pull down the iPhone Home Screen or Lock Screen, you get to Search, also called Spotlight Search. Type an app’s first letters, and it will show up in the results, letting you open that app immediately.
However, if a particular app isn’t appearing in Search, that’s because you or someone with access to your iPhone excluded that app from search results. Here’s how to reverse that.
SpotlightPls makes Spotlight search more easily accessible on jailbroken iPhones
Spotlight search is an often-forgotten feature that makes finding virtually anything on your iPhone an effortless task. Not only can it find apps, but it can find files, locations, messages, news, web pages, and more.
Spotlight search in iOS 15 includes Photos search with Live Text and several other improvements
Apple today during its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote announced several noteworthy improvements to the system-wide search feature on the iPhone and iPad.
Find things faster with these Spotlight search tips for Mac
Take advantage of your Mac’s built-in search feature to find things faster and easier than ever with these Spotlight search tips.
SpotCC launches Control Center instead of Spotlight when swiping down on the Home screen
Swiping down while on the Home screen of your iPhone usually presents you with the Spotlight search interface, but if you don’t use the Spotlight search feature that often, then you might take a liking to a new free jailbreak tweak called SpotCC by iOS developer Kiran Patil.
There isn’t much to say here concerning what the tweak does, but just as the name implies, SpotCC makes it so that swiping down on the Home screen summons Control Center rather than Spotlight search.
How to quickly track a flight from anywhere on your iPhone
Whether you’re preparing to jump on a plane or just waiting for a friend to fly in, you may think that you have to download a special app to track those flights. And, while a specific flight tracking app is certainly a great way to go, especially if you’re a frequent traveler, there is another way.
Here’s how to quickly track flights from anywhere with your iPhone and all you need is the flight number.