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.
Spotlight doesn't search documents in apps. It will search for apps but not the content within the apps themselves.
Hi,
THanks for your reply. So...if I have a lot of documents on my iPad I have to scroll through them all to find the one I want (assuming I don't remember name or creation date, etc.).
I am slightly incredulous if this is the case. And bummed.
By the way, it does search in Notes, Mail, texts, Calendar. Aren't those apps?
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.
Thanks. I di register my dissatisfaction with Apple. Not holding my breath.
Spotlight search iPad 2 problem
