[Note: The following information is also included in our Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Special Report, published today] Spotlight performance issues and solutions We continue coverage issue where Mac OS X ...

Earlier this week we published our Mac OS X 10.4.6 special report, dissecting a number of prominent issues with the latest iterative release of Apple's flagship ...

Spotlight is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated features of iOS. I know so many people who don’t use it, yet I find it indispensable when it comes to searching for emails, notes, contacts, and ...

Spotlight makes it easy to find anything on your Mac, including text inside of all common file formats. macOS offers Spotlight for direct searching in two distinct ways: via the Spotlight item in the ...

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 ...

Apple Intelligence was not the primary focus of WWDC 2025, and I'm glad Apple took a more cautious approach this year. There are a few Apple Intelligence novelties in the updates, but Apple didn't ...

Many people already considered macOS's Spotlight search tool far superior to Windows' Search. I wasn't among them, but I am now after Apple debuted powerful, action-oriented capabilities at WWDC. I've ...

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.

Apple has shown off just how fast users can send features and add Reminders with macOS Tahoe's Quick Keys — but using them and setting them up takes a few steps. There's no ignoring that Apple's ...

Apple today announced the biggest-ever update to Spotlight in macOS, introducing context-aware actions, app integration via App Intents, and powerful new productivity features. In macOS Tahoe, Apple ...