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.
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Spotpower lets you respring your iOS device and more from Spotlight
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
HideSiriSuggestions can be used to remove specific apps from your Siri Suggestions widget.
100+ new features in macOS High Sierra
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.
Get Me Home lets you summon a Lyft or Uber right from Spotlight
This tweak lets you get a ride home by typing a special phrase into Spotlight. You must have the Lyft or Uber app installed to use it.
Center the Today page’s date indicator with this tweak
This tweak centers the typically right-aligned date on the Today interface in both Notification Center and the Spotlight page of the Home screen.
