Customizing Spotlight

You can also customize the order that Spotlight searches for things. If email messages are more important to you than audiobooks, tell Spotlight to search through your email messages first and not bother searching for audiobooks until you’ve searched for everything else.

To customize Spotlight, follow these steps:

  1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.

  2. Tap General. The General settings screen appears.

  3. Tap Spotlight Search. The Spotlight Search settings screen appears, as shown in Figure 26-3.

  4. Tap any item, such as Music, Podcasts, or Mail. Spotlight will search for any item with a check mark next to it and ignore any items that do not have a check mark next to them.

    Figure 26-3. The Spotlight Search settings ...

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