Q: Spotlight search iPad 2 problem
I have all the possibilities checked in Spotlight search options but I still can't get it to search in my Pages documents. Any clues?
I have just started trying this search so I don't know if it is a new or old problem. IOS is up to date.
I have tried turning off the mail portion of Search.
It is giving me search results for other apps on my iPad (contacts, music, web, etc.)
Thanks for any help.
Posted on Jun 24, 2012 3:18 PM
Unfortunately, that is correct. What you see in the the Spotlight settings .... Is what you get. Apps show up in the Spotlight search settings giving many users the impression that it will search for content in the apps, but as I stated, it will only search for the apps themselves.
Let Apple know what you think about the way that Spotlight works.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
EDIT - after seeing your last post .... Yes those are apps - they are Apple's built in apps. They designed Spotlight to work with those apps. Pages is also an Apple app and Spotlight does not work with it.
Posted on Jun 24, 2012 3:35 PM