Go to Spotlight: On the main page of the Home screen, flick right or press the Home button. On the Spotlight page, you can press the Home button to return to the main Home screen.

Search iPad: On the Spotlight page, enter text in the Search field. Search results appear automatically as you type. Tap Search to dismiss the keyboard and see more of the results.

Tap an item in the results list to open it. Icons to the left of the search results let you know which app the results are from.

At the top of the list, iPad shows your top hits based on previous searches. At the bottom of the list, the search results also include options to search the web or search Wikipedia.

App

What’s searched

 

 

Contacts

First, last, and company names

 

 

Mail

To, From, and Subject fields of all accounts

 

(the text of messages isn’t searched)

 

 

Calendar

Event titles, invitees, and locations

 

 

iPod

Music (names of songs, artists, and albums) and

 

the titles of podcasts and audiobooks

 

 

Notes

Text of notes

 

 

Spotlight also searches the names of built-in and installed apps on iPad. If you have a lot of apps, you can use Spotlight to locate and open them.

Open an app from Spotlight: Enter the app name, then tap to open the app.

You can choose which apps are searched and the order in which they’re searched. In Settings, choose General > Spotlight Search.

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