Searching with Spotlight

Spotlight is a special feature that essentially acts like a search engine on your iPad. Just type all or part of a word, and Spotlight tries to find an item that matches your search criteria. Spotlight can find nine types of items:

  • Apps

  • Audiobooks

  • Calendar appointments

  • Contacts

  • Mail messages

  • Music

  • Notes

  • Podcasts

  • Video

To search for any of these items, follow these steps:

  1. From the Home screen, swipe your finger from left to right. The Spotlight screen appears with a Search iPad field at the top and the virtual keyboard at the bottom, as shown in Figure 34-1. (You can also get to the Spotlight search page by pressing the Home button when you're at the Home screen.)

  2. Tap the Search iPad field, and type part of the word that represents ...

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