Spotlight is Apple's smart search indexer for macOS. Here's how to use its metadata utilities to get more information about your documents. Spotlight runs in the background on your Mac or iOS device ...

Spotlight on the Mac is a universal search bar, available everywhere, ready to quickly launch an app or find a file. And in macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple supercharged Spotlight by adding many advanced ...

Hide results from specific categories to improve privacy and search experience. You can also prevent Spotlight from searching in specific locations or folders to exclude personal files. Further ...

How to Run a Search in Spotlight To use Spotlight on your Mac, press Command-Space bar on the keyboard. The first time you do this, the Spotlight window describes the latest changes to the feature.

OS Tahoe has added clipboard management to Spotlight Search. Here's how to enable clipboard history on your Mac, and how to ...

Just as it did for iOS 16, Apple has again taken the opportunity to tweak Spotlight to bring it small but perfectly formed additions for iOS 17. Here's how to use it. With iOS 16, Apple added a new ...

Spotlight is the built-in search system in Mac OS X. You can get to it at any time by clicking on the magnifying glass icon in the very top-right corner of your screen. Spotlight is an excellent ...