spotlight search

Sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this kind of question in. If it is better suited elsewhere, feel free to move it. Hello, everyone! I have a question wrt Spotlight's settings. I actually triple boot 3 different versions of Mac OS on a 2010 unibody macbook: Snow Leopard, El Capitan, and...

is this possible with raycast or Alfred or even spotlight? I love the spotlight & im sick of opening safari, call me lazy sure but I wanna know if its possible to type in what I want to look for in spotlight then press enter or whatever button is programmed & then take me to a list of searches...

I’m running the latest IOS 13.1 Public Beta. When using the attached Smart Keyboard I use CMD+Space to pull up spotlight search. How do I pull up spotlight search without the keyboard? I used to be able to swipe down from the top and access it that way. What am I missing?

hi, for some reason sometimes when i use spotlight search, i start typing in what I'm looking for and it just quits/dissapears. I keep trying and it just keeps doing it. Any ideas? 10.12.6

UPDATE: Called Apple tech support. Just "Reset all Settings", it fixed the problem.... Running iOS 12 on XS Max 512GB, can't search Notes effectively. Will return some results but not all. Doesn't matter if I use Siri or just type query into box at the top. Spotlight Search is effectively...

When I use spotlight search to search for apps, most apps are shown, but Twitter, Soundhound, and the iOS Calendar app are never shown, even when I specifically search for them. Any ideas? IPad Pro 9.7”, iOS 11.2. Thanks!

Ever since I updated my MacBook, I can't open Safari without it crashing, can't even click on a link. Something's also up with Spotlight Search, it keeps appearing and disappearing and it's sort of driving me nuts. Does anyone know a fix for this yet? I hate it. Also, my battery is draining FAST.

I'm new to the mac anything so be kind... I selected a whole bunch of stuff and created a folder with the selection. I cannot find the folder. when I search in spotlight I can find it. How do I find it otherwise? I saved five of them and obviously cannot remember two of the names now because...

Recently my search results do not return when I used the search in Finder. I have already checked my spotlight preferences and everything is selected. It is also doing the same thing in my outlook (will not return search results). This is so frustrating.

I have a 12.9 IPad Pro with Apple Smart Keyboard running the latest non-beta software. Sometimes when I pull up spotlight search with CMD-Space or with a downward finger swipe, I am unable to type a thing in the search field. Keyboard input is ignored. I can usually fix it by going to another...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone here may be able to help me out. I have a network drive that has been formatted to HFS+ with several thousand files, mostly sound effects. When I search via Spotlight for things either on the computer the network drive is attached to or using the "Connect to...

I was watching some videos about the iPad Pro today, and noticed that the Spotlight Search layout was slightly changed from iOS 9.1 (version the iPad Pro shipped with) to iOS 9.2 onwards. Yes, I know this is quite insignificant but I'm still curious to see which layout you guys prefer :) (I...