15 iPhone Tricks Apple Has Been Hiding From You

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3. Searching With Spotlight

Odds are, you probably have a search engine app on your iPhone. Whether it’s Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo, search is the bread-and-butter of the web. But did you know you can search with Spotlight?

And not only the web, you can search through your iPhone with Spotlight. iOS 9 and 10 greatly improved app indexing, so you can often search for content within apps from Spotlight. Not all apps have app indexing so you’ll want to dive into the settings of that app, or ask the customer support of the app if they have indexing.

You’ll get Siri Suggestions in Spotlight, as well as suggestions in Search and Look Up. Spotlight searches across the web, iTunes, App Store, nearby locations and more all at the same time. This is a super handy feature that I use all the time, instead of searching in Safari or using a search engine app.

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