On Windows, the Start menu is how you find apps and search for files. On macOS, there's Spotlight. Spotlight debuted with OS X Tiger in 2004, and it's more or less been the same ever since — with ...

The first two Do You Use It? polls revolved around features that are easy to use or ignore: Stage Manager and Launchpad. The story is much more complex with Spotlight, the focus of our third poll.

Spotlight is Apple's smart search indexer for macOS. Here's how to use its metadata utilities to get more information about your documents. Spotlight runs in the background on your Mac or iOS device ...

Spotlight in macOS stores some of its indices and search data on your Startup Disk. Here's how to minimize Spotlight using disk space. Spotlight is Apple's file indexing technology, which stores a ...

Twenty years ago, Mac OS X Tiger introduced us to a search feature that would stand the test of time: Spotlight. And while at the time I found myself ambivalent about its many quirks, some of which ...