One of the neat new features in iOS & iPadOS 16 is the ability to access Spotlight search from your Home Screen by tapping on the little search pill at the bottom of your Home Screen where the page dots would ordinarily be.
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iOS and iPadOS 16.5 bring a new wallpaper but no Siri screen recording commands
The iOS 16.5 release notes mention enhancements like a new wallpaper, but Siri screen recording that was present in betas is nowhere to be seen.
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.
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.
The new MacBook Air keyboard has dedicated keys for Spotlight, Dictation, DND and Emoji
Apple's just-refreshed MacBook Air with the new Apple M1 laptop chip that was announced yesterday features an updated media key layout in the function row, with the new shortcuts for Dictation, Spotlight and Do Not Disturb functions replacing the previous keys for adjusting brightness and invoking the Launchpad feature. Also, there's now a dedicated Emoji key.
How to quickly open apps and websites using Spotlight Search on iPhone and iPad
Learn about a couple of simple Spotlight Search tips to open apps and websites in an instant on your iPhone or iPad.
Spotlightizer lets you personalize iOS’ Spotlight interface
I very seldom use my iPhone’s Spotlight interface for anything now that I can just use Siri to command almost anything I need. Nevertheless, the former still comes in handy when you want to find an app or perform basic math without using your voice.
Niche uses aside, Apple doesn’t provide any way of customizing the Spotlight user interface on a stock device, but jailbreakers can now take advantage of a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed Spotlightizer by iOS developer 1di4r to bypass this seemingly unnecessary restriction.
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.
Spotpower lets you respring your iOS device and more from Spotlight
After jailbreaking an iPhone or iPad, you might respring the device from time to time, as it can help you save changes made to jailbreak extensions in addition to other things. With that in mind, wouldn’t it be a good idea to have a dedicated shortcut for respringing or performing other boot options in a pinch?
Those in agreeance may want to check out a newly-released and free jailbreak tweak called Spotpower by iOS developer Castyte, as it makes many of these essential functions more accessible to the common jailbreaker. Moreover, it implements these features into a familiar interface that many will use daily: Apple’s own Spotlight search.