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 ...

On Windows, the Start menu is how you find apps and search for files. On macOS, there's Spotlight. Spotlight debuted with OS X Tiger in 2004, and it's more or less been the same ever since — with ...

Ever since Apple first introduced us to macOS Tahoe26 I've been excited for all the changes coming to Macs in 2025, and I might be most excited about the supercharged new Spotlight Search. I know, ...

Perhaps it's just my experience, and perhaps it's because I simply upgrade each OS update and don't Nuke / Pave a fresh install, but Spotlight Search in macOS is completely useless. Recently placing ...

Spotlight in macOS stores some of its indices and search data on your Startup Disk. Here's how to minimize Spotlight using disk space. Spotlight is Apple's file indexing technology, which stores a ...

In macOS Tahoe 26, Apple gave Spotlight a major update with a visual overhaul, clipboard access, and Actions for performing tasks within apps directly from the search bar. There's quite a lot of ...

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 ...

Part search engine, part app launcher, part smart assistant — there's lots to like about Spotlight in Apple's upcoming OS release. If you use a Mac at work or elsewhere, then you inevitably use ...

Twenty years ago, Mac OS X Tiger introduced us to a search feature that would stand the test of time: Spotlight. And while at the time I found myself ambivalent about its many quirks, some of which ...

Apple provides technical details of its forthcoming Spotlight technology in a new public developer documentation. Apple Computer on Tuesday published to its developer Web site an in-depth technical ...