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Hi! Anyone know if there's a way to force Spotlight to index the contents of the /Users/Shared folder? I tried sudo mdutil -i on /Users/Shared but that didn't work. I also tried adding and removing the folder to the Spotlight Privacy exclusion list in System Settings. Didn't work either.

I have an iPhone 7 running iOS 11.2.6; it has been since the update first came out, as I like to keep my devices up to date. Yesterday, everything was working just fine; I had no issues whatsoever. Today is a whole different story. I can't access anything Google. I first noticed it when I...

I have an iPhone 8 Plus with up to date software. I have noticed that my Safari has some sites in the History that I have never visited. For example, this is going to sound very strange, but one thing that appeared was a search from the Expedia website, the page displayed a Payment for a...

Probably an oft-asked question, but once you're reading a note in iOS, can you search within it? All of the guides on the internet just tell you how to search ALL of your notes. But on the desktop version of Notes, you can search within notes, which is super useful for longer ones: Sure...

If I type a search into the address / search bar on Safari it takes me to DuckDuckGo. I have checked the settings / preferences and Google is set as my chosen search engine. I have tried selecting Yahoo, Bing etc but all have the same outcome. I don’t suppose anyone has any ideas why this is...

Hi, I'm setting up a list of smart folders which will search inside my sample library folder called 'Samples'. Each Smart Search Criteria has some conditions, i.e. Name matches 'Bass' Duration is more than 2 seconds Any (Are true) Wav Aiff Rex All works fine. But I was wondering, my...

When I search for an app on my iPhone X using the search function it doesn't show the name of the folder the app is located in? I have lots of folders so this is rather annoying. It used to show the name on iOS 10, is this something that's missing from iOS 11?

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hi, i've seen a few people searching for similar things but none of the solutions work. ideally i don't want a list produced by terminal because i hate using it. i've tried using finder to search for kind -> music but it only shows three random files out of thousands. the reason i want to...

I just moved some of my documents folders to iCloud Drive and realized that my smart folders searching for certain documents having color tags don't work anymore. The files on iCloud Drive still have the color tag, but the search for color tags on iCloud files doesn't work... Has anybody...

Hi, when i type something in the search box in the top right corner of the finder window, it says below it that it can either search 'This Mac' or 'All Files' - I have 4 hard drives in my mac pro - is there a way i can get it to search all drives at once? I have tried clicking 'All files' -...

I was searching for something else on my iPhone by using the pull down search facility from the home screen. I was horrified for some confidential data to pop up in the search box, from within a locked note. I double checked and the data was definitely in the body of the locked note, not in the...

I've been using whatsapp for several years now, I have a chat history for over 4 years where I sometimes search for messages and so on. My chat history is getting backed up on iCloud, A few weeks ago I accidently removed Whatsapp from my phone and I reinstalled my history. When I scroll up...

Hey everyone, I noticed that about 25% of the time, links I click in a Google Search listing or YouTube links of any kind won't "click" the first time. The loading bar doesn't appear, and repeatedly clicking it doesn't change anything. The only solution is to click it once, then sit back and...

Recently my search results do not return when I used the search in Finder. I have already checked my spotlight preferences and everything is selected. It is also doing the same thing in my outlook (will not return search results). This is so frustrating.

In the past (under Snow Leopard) I was able to create a sym link at ~/Library/Mail and keep the actual Mail folder on an encrypted diskimage. I am trying to do something similar now on El Capitan but I seem to have lost the ability to perform searches on imported mailboxes from within Mail.app...

Searching in Apple Music is incredibly pathetic. For example, I search, in iTunes, for "yesterday", click on Songs>See all and I get 37 results. "All"? Five of the results are for something other than songs titled "Yesterday". The Lennon/McCartney song "Yesterday" has been recorded over 3000...

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I want to search the photos on my phone for photos taken in 2016 of a certain person (so far so good) - but only include Favourites. I can search photos taken in 2016 & for a named person (596 results). As soon as I add 'Favourites' to the search, there are 0 results. If I go into the...

On Messages in macOS when you search with CMD-F you can use Find Next CMD-G to jump to the next result on the search. Is something like this possible on Messages on iOS? I feel that the search function inside Messages on iOS is very limited if this is not possible.