Q: Spotlight Search Problem with iCloud
I want to find emails and notes on my MacBook I have written about iCloud. However on my MacBook if I do a Spotlight Search on the word iCloud it includes all notes, events, reminders, etc. that are saved on iCloud versus showing only documents that contain the term iCloud. It will show me documents that do not have the word iCloud anywhere in them. This seems to be a problem only in OS X because when I do a search on an iPhone it works appropriately and shows only documents or events that contain the word iCloud. Apple, why have you implemented Spotlight Search this way and do you plan on fixing it?
Thank you,
Jim
null, Windows 10, iCloud Notes
Posted on Mar 8, 2016 9:01 AM
For example if I create an event that is titled "Jim's Birthday". Now I create an event titled "iCloud Development Meeting". I then do a spotlight search with the word "iCloud". The only result I should see is "iCloud Development Meeting". But I am currently seeing both meetings listed.
That is how Spotlight works.
You want Spotlight to behave differently than it does - you are free to provide feedback to Apple about it: http://www.apple.com/feedback
but as I see it Spotlight is working as designed.
content:iCloud
produces material that has iCloud in its content; so it will show the second event but not the first.
iCloud
produces results that match iCloud in any way; including things that *are* in iCloud.
Spotlight is very powerful, but it works the way it works. It does not read your mind
Posted on Mar 8, 2016 10:26 AM