Tips on using Spotlight for iPhone

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Tutorials

Wednesday February 23, 2011

In this episode, we'll tell you

how to find files on your iPhone

using Spotlight search. By default,

Spotlight search

will help you

find files ranging from applications to emails

. However, there are things that you can do to

hide certain types of files

or change the order of your

search results

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Show Notes

- Spotlight lets you find anything from your iPhone from an application to an email.

- You can get to Spotlight by either tapping the small magnifying glass icon or by swiping to the leftmost page from the home screen.

- Just type the name of the file or something from the file you're trying to get to.

- You'll see the results of your search pop up and you'll be able to browse through it or open files.

- Go to Settings, then General and then Spotlight search. From here, you can change a few things.

- Uncheck any of these items to have them not appear in your searches.

- Click and drag the items into whatever order you want them to be displayed in when you search.

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