Spotlight

Find things faster with these Spotlight search tips for Mac

by Sandy Writtenhouse on August 14, 2019— no comment yet

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

by Anthony Bouchard on July 11, 2019— no comment yet

With Spotpower, you can perform system actions from the Spotlight interface by entering unique keywords, such as “/respring” in the search bar.

Make iOS’ Spotlight search feature more powerful with LuxSit

by Anthony Bouchard on July 1, 2019— no comment yet

LuxSit is a new and free jailbreak tweak that augments your iPhone’s Spotlight search capabilities in useful ways.

This tweak lets you reassign the native Spotlight/Today page gesture to something more useful

by Anthony Bouchard on March 13, 2019— no comment yet

XB-SpotlightScroll replaces the standard Spotlight/Today gesture with something more useful. Learn more inside.

LeadMeHome makes it easy to find apps on cluttered Home screens

by Anthony Bouchard on May 28, 2018— no comment yet

Have a cluttered Home screen? LeadMeHome can take the work out of finding your app icons.

This tweak prevents Spotlight from remembering recent search queries

by Anthony Bouchard on March 7, 2018— no comment yet

Spotlight can be useful, but it’s sometimes annoying how it remembers your most recent search query. This jailbreak tweak for iOS 11 devices can fix that problem.

How to rebuild Spotlight index on your Mac

by Christian Zibreg on February 8, 2018— no comment yet

If Spotlight is not working properly on your Mac, or searching your computer doesn’t return expected results, rebuilding the Spotlight index might help. Here’s how to manually initiate a reindexation of Spotlight’s index with just a few clicks.

Apple swaps Bing for Google in Siri, iOS Search & macOS Spotlight

by Christian Zibreg on September 25, 2017— 6 comments

Because Apple wants these services to have a consistent web search experience with the Google default in Safari.

Hide specific apps from the Siri Suggestions widget with HideSiriSuggestions

by Anthony Bouchard on September 8, 2017— no comment yet

HideSiriSuggestions can be used to remove specific apps from your Siri Suggestions widget.

100+ new features in macOS High Sierra

by Andrew O'Hara on August 17, 2017— 13 comments

One of the biggest yet largely unseen updates, macOS High Sierra brings many new features to Mac users. iDownloadBlog takes a closer look at some of the biggest changes in High Sierra, with an accompanying hands-on video from Andrew and the non-exhaustive list of everything that’s new.