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.
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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.
This tweak hides your web search history from Spotlight
When you use Spotlight to search the web, you leave behind a history. This tweak hides all that for your privacy.
Add the Dock to the Today view with this handy tweak
This tweak enables access to the application Dock when you’re viewing the Today page via the Home screen.
Spotlife hides Today widgets, brings back the iOS 9-style Spotlight page
If you want to hide the widgets from your Today pages, a new free jailbreak tweak called Spotlife is a good place to start.
Five neat tricks Spotlight search can do for you on iPhone
You might know about using Spotlight for swift currency and measurement conversions by now, but the list does not end here. Largely undiscussed on the web, here are five more cool uses for Spotlight.
This tweak removes the background mask effect from Spotlight search results
We recently showed you a tweak that can remove Spotlight search from your device entirely. On the other hand, if you do use Spotlight, but just wish there was more you could do with it to make the interface look better, then try this on for size…
A new free jailbreak tweak called No Spotlight BG Mask by Justin Petkovic is a minor aesthetic mod that simplifies the way your Spotlight search results look. It removes the background masks that normally appear out of the box, resulting in a new look.
NoSpot10 removes Spotlight search from your iPhone
If you never really use Spotlight, and it always ends up in your face when you don’t want it to be, then you might want to take a look a new free jailbreak tweak called NoSpot10 by CydiaGeek.
Installing this tweak lets you disable Spotlight in a system-wide manner, leaving you with simpler widget pages on the Home screen, Lock screen, and Notification Center.
How to hide the Spotlight Search icon from the menu bar
If you never use the Spotlight feature on your Mac, or if you only use it from the Finder rather than from the menu bar, you may have wondered how to get rid of its icon. In this guide, we’ll show you how to hide the Spotlight icon from your Mac menu bar, while still being able to use the feature.
NoTodayView disables the Spotlight widget page on the Home and Lock screens
NoTodayView is a new free jailbreak tweak for iOS 10 devices that can disable the Spotlight widget page on both the Home screen and Lock screen, which depending on how you use your device, can be very useful.
While most people like to use the Spotlight and widget page system that comes stock, it gets in the way when you try to use some other Home screen-modifying jailbreak tweaks like Mobius, which allow you to scroll infinitely through all of your Home screen pages and folders without coming to any dead-ends.
How to reveal a file’s path in Spotlight for Mac with a simple keystroke
Find the path name of a file or folder on macOS in a few clicks. Here’s how to show a file path in Spotlight search on your Mac.
iOS 10 tidbit: Spotlight Suggestions in Messages
On iOS 10, Spotlight Suggestions appear in more places than before. We recently told you about Spotlight Suggestions in the Look Up interface (formerly known as the Define feature). We also discussed iOS 10’s expressive Messages app in depth and mentioned its super useful inline previews of URLs.
As it turns out, not only does Messages support inline previews of media URLs, but underlines specific terms in your chats—such as movie and app names—that Spotlight Suggestions can give you more info about.
