Searching, 27 searching – Apple iPad iOS 6.1 User Manual

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Chapter 3

Basics

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Searching

You can search many of the apps on iPad, as well as Wikipedia and the web. Search an individual
app, or search all the apps at once using Spotlight. Spotlight also searches the names of apps on
iPad—if you have a lot of apps, you might want to use Spotlight to locate and open them.

Search an individual app: Enter text in the search field.
Search iPad using Spotlight: Swipe right from the first Home screen, or press the Home button
from any Home screen. Enter text in the search field.

Search results appear as you type. To dismiss the keyboard and see more results, tap Search. Tap
an item in the list to open it. The icons let you know which apps the results are from.

iPad may display a top hit for you, based on previous searches.

Spotlight searches the following:

Contacts—All content

Apps—Titles

Music—Names of songs, artists, and albums, and the titles of podcasts and videos

Podcasts—Titles

Videos—Titles

Audiobooks—Titles

Notes—Text of notes

Calendar (Events)—Event titles, invitees, locations, and notes

Mail—To, From, and Subject fields of all accounts (the text of messages isn’t searched)

Reminders—Titles

Messages—Names and text of messages

Search the web or Wikipedia from Spotlight: Scroll to the bottom of the search results, then tap
Search Web or Search Wikipedia.
Open an app from Search: Enter all or part of the app name, then tap the app.
Choose which items are searched, and the order they’re searched: Go to Settings > General >
Spotlight Search.

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