spotlight
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Stop Using Spotlight on Your iPhone (and Do This Instead)
Spotlight, once an essential tool in your iPhone productivity arsenal, has become nearly unusable on iOS 16. It sometimes displays search results almost instantly, but more often than not it takes a few seconds (or more) to find things. The latency is particularly noticeable on older iPhones, and the inconsistency of a once-reliable tool is…
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How to Disable Spotlight Search on Mac (and Replace It With Something Better)
Spotlight Search is Mac’s built-in search feature. It shows up when you use the Command + Space keyboard shortcut, or when you click the Search icon in the menu bar to hunt for a file somewhere on your machine.
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Jump Between Categories In Spotlight With A Keyboard Shortcut
Mac: Spotlight search is great, but some search terms come up with a ton of different document categories. OS X Daily points out that you can easy jump between those different categories with a keyboard shortcut.
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Flashlight, The App That Powers Up Spotlight, Is Out Of Beta
Mac: We loved Flashlight when it first launched as an experiment and today it’s officially out of beta. That means it’s a little more stable and faster, and has a bunch of new plugins.