How to use Spotlight to search for files, images and more in macOS Ventura Your email has been sent The Mac has long offered the Spotlight tool to help you search for files and other types of content.

There seems to be two types of users when it comes to Spotlight in macOS. Some use Spotlight regularly, maybe to the point where it’s the main user interface element for everything on the Mac–for ...

Spotlight extensions enhance third-party app searches, letting you look up more app-specific content. Here's how to enable or disable the extensions in macOS. Spotlight is Apple's search indexing ...

After years of incremental tweaks, Spotlight is taking center stage in macOS Tahoe 26, in what Apple calls its biggest update ever. Here’s everything that’s new. With this release, Apple wants to ...

Part search engine, part app launcher, part smart assistant — there's lots to like about Spotlight in Apple's upcoming OS release. If you use a Mac at work or elsewhere, then you inevitably use ...

Apple today announced the biggest-ever update to Spotlight in macOS, introducing context-aware actions, app integration via App Intents, and powerful new productivity features. In macOS Tahoe, Apple ...

Did macOS 26’s Spotlight update leave you wanting more? It did for me, too. That’s why I’m still using Alfred. Alfred is so much more than a Spotlight replacement, and isn’t even on the same playing ...

I'm now part of the ever-growing number of macOS Sequoia users dealing with Spotlight search functionality that is completely broken. My issue started around macOS Sequoia 15.2. There isn't a known ...

It’s only been a day since Apple revealed the massive Liquid Glass redesign across all its platforms and released the developer preview builds. Interestingly, most of the chatter has been centered on ...