Starting with iOS 17, Spotlight is more than just a search engine!
Starting with iOS 17, Apple has made changes to make Spotlight more accurate and useful than it already was. Until now, a powerful search engine always accessible from the iOS home screen allowed us to search on the iPhone or the web. Now, instead of just showing the spotlight or search result, it allows you to perform certain functions.
While Spotlight already offered tricks and secret searches to fulfill certain requests, the update in iOS 17 made it an essential tool on our home screen.
How to use Spotlight in iOS 17?
As always, you need to swipe down on the home screen to see the search bar. new features, Allows you to perform many tasks directly from the search barWe show you the following list:
- Day or Date: Spotlight will offer to create a calendar event.
- Recognize music: Shazam allows you to identify any song playing by activating the shortcut.
- Wi-Fi or Bluetooth: Provides a settings menu to enable these tools.
- Numbers: Displays the result of performing arithmetic operations without opening the calculator.
- Flights: As you type in the flight number, it displays information in real-time, avoiding opening airports.
Spotlight provides additional information and actions when entering searches
- Movies: The official site shows a complete summary of related information like cast information, theaters and platforms where it is available. In some countries, there is an option to purchase tickets for performances.
- Climate: Provides weather information for a specific day and location.
- Currency: Makes quick conversion from one currency to another.
- Shortcuts: Run our available shortcuts without opening shortcuts or shortcut apps.
- Applications: Spotlight prevents us from spending a lot of time on the home page searching for different apps like banking or transportation because we can do it right from here.
- Photos: If you search for photos, Spotlight will display a link to access the Favorites album directly from the search interface, if that’s a search you do frequently.}
Search and launch directly from Search on iPhone with iOS 17
In conclusion, when searching for an application, Spotlight now offers app shortcuts in the main results sectionbecomes a more efficient option.
Of course, these features and more are available on other devices like the iPad and MacBook with the iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma updates.
