Hands down best tech youtuber! Your calm style & attitude and educational patience makes you are a very inviting tech teacher. your videos explain things in a simple manner making tech on the apple ecosystem easy to understand. Kudos!
This was awesome. I’ve used spotlight almost daily for years but still learned at least 4 tips I was unaware of. I knew Spotlight could do more but hadn’t taken the time to search for more info on it. Your format and presentation skills are phenomenal!
Love your clear and easy to understand videos. I save all your videos bc I know I’ll need to refer them at some point. And your TIMESTAMPS are so helpful! Thanks so much for sharing your expertise and teaching it so well!
Watched this and thought I'd give it a go to find a file I had been looking for, for ages. Finder didn't/couldn't find it, but spotlight did. It was in folder library/containers/mail/data and had a nonsensical filename but spotlight found it. Thank you so much. Worth a coffee (or two)
Fantastic tips! I’ll now use my membership to print off the pdf of your presentation. There’s so many great suggestions that I can’t remember them all! Thank you!
Thank you so much for all your content!! It’s been super helpful because you do such a wonderful job at explaining and visualizing everything! Sending love from Arizona 🤍🤍🤍
Glad I stumbled on you. I've been an Apple user for years and I know that I've not scratched the surface of the capabilities I have at my fingertips. You are very helpful
I've avoided spotlight forever because I felt it was annoying. I'm going to use it a lot more now after watching this video because I never knew some of the features that it had. Thanks for sharing and changing my mind on this.
Superb! Without doubt, the most informative, clear and concise instructional videos of Apple products on any platform This video is absolutely invaluable to those moving to the Mac platform 👍
Really interesting. Pity I couldn’t get to the end of this video coz I know it’s going to feature spotlight suggestions which isn’t available in my part of the world, which is highly annoying.
Another nice video from a fellow Brit! I don't get though why use it for a web search and then hit cmd B. Why not just search directly in the browser. I guess I'm new to mac and haven't found much use for spotlight yet but this gives me some ideas
I keep telling myself to use Spotlight more and more but I continue to forget about Spotlight on a regular basis. Maybe this video will remind me how useful Spotlight can be on the Mac
Great video. I have learned a lot from this video about Spotlight Search I never knew. It is a very useful tool on the Mac. I am a PC person, but have a Macbook Pro that I don't use very much, but want to use more. I could use some lessons on how to get around on the Mac especially moving from one App that is opened to another. I feel like a fish out of water. Any suggestions? I appreciate any you may have. Thanks for sharing, I love your videos because they are very detailed and you explain it so well! ☺
Hey I love your videos. QUESTION: what is the advantage of the Spotlight over the regular Command+F search…? I can’t see much difference, is there one? Thanks!
Do you know if spotlight can search for running applications or its window title ? For example if I have a Chrome instance with Gmail opened, could I search for 'Gmail' to get the focus on that Chrome instance ? I can do that with Rofi on Linux, and it's so useful
Is there any setting I need for the weather function to work? it only allows me to open the app, I already did the reindex thing, but still same results, Im not sure what I should do
Comprehensive…however, I’m running Sonoma 14.5 in conjunction with Davinci Resolve 18.6.6 and a Logi MX Master 3S. Davinci has a function that uses “Middle-Click” to copy a color grade. I’ve configure the Master 3S to define the wheel button to ‘Middle-Click’ but when I 'middle-click’, the Spotlight Search pops up. Disabling the keyboard function works as designed, however I have yet to find a way to disable Spotlight initiated from the mouse…. any thoughts would be appreciated (other than migrating over to Windoze).
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Such an informative video! Had no clue about all those keyboard shortcuts (although I use Spotlight Search a lot). Thank you!
This one is like “learn from the legends”. Love your videos too dude!!!
Hands down best tech youtuber! Your calm style & attitude and educational patience makes you are a very inviting tech teacher. your videos explain things in a simple manner making tech on the apple ecosystem easy to understand. Kudos!
This was awesome. I’ve used spotlight almost daily for years but still learned at least 4 tips I was unaware of. I knew Spotlight could do more but hadn’t taken the time to search for more info on it. Your format and presentation skills are phenomenal!
What an eye-opener! One of your best videos, and that is saying something!
That's kind of you to say so, thank you!
This is brilliant ! love your channel! Thank you for all the tips!
The shortcuts that you defined are a great help. Thanks
This is probably the best Spothlight video I've seen so far. Thanks!
Love your clear and easy to understand videos. I save all your videos bc I know I’ll need to refer them at some point. And your TIMESTAMPS are so helpful! Thanks so much for sharing your expertise and teaching it so well!
Thanks for this. I finally understand how to use Spotlight Search. Awesome job explaining
Thank you!
Watched this and thought I'd give it a go to find a file I had been looking for, for ages. Finder didn't/couldn't find it, but spotlight did. It was in folder library/containers/mail/data and had a nonsensical filename but spotlight found it. Thank you so much. Worth a coffee (or two)
Can I thumbs up more than once? I love your videos. Always informative and clearly explained.
Your channel, TechTalk America and MacMost are my go to Mac channels - from a 25+ year Mac user.
My new go to channel for tech info 👌
Fantastic tips! I’ll now use my membership to print off the pdf of your presentation. There’s so many great suggestions that I can’t remember them all! Thank you!
Great video, as usual!!!
Excellent video. I keep forgetting about spotlight search..... Thank you!
Thanks. I use that everyday but had no idea you could do most of those things.
Thank you so much for all your content!! It’s been super helpful because you do such a wonderful job at explaining and visualizing everything! Sending love from Arizona 🤍🤍🤍
Glad I stumbled on you. I've been an Apple user for years and I know that I've not scratched the surface of the capabilities I have at my fingertips. You are very helpful
Very helpful and appreciate the PDFs for accessibility sake, thank you!
This is great! Thanks!
Another helpful tutorial, thank you!
Thank you for this excellent video! It’s very helpful, I learned a couple of new tips!
I've avoided spotlight forever because I felt it was annoying. I'm going to use it a lot more now after watching this video because I never knew some of the features that it had. Thanks for sharing and changing my mind on this.
Superb!
Without doubt, the most informative, clear and concise instructional videos of Apple products on any platform
This video is absolutely invaluable to those moving to the Mac platform 👍
Utterly brilliant & brilliantly helpful & understandable as usual/ Thank you Tom.
Excellent! I have never used Spotlight properly. Much appreciated
Highly informative content as usual
Very clean video! Started subbing right away 😊
Avid spotlight user but never knew those shortcuts. Thanks!
learnt something superb today…. thank you for helping my progression with my iMac …😉😉😉
Really interesting. Pity I couldn’t get to the end of this video coz I know it’s going to feature spotlight suggestions which isn’t available in my part of the world, which is highly annoying.
Wow! You are very very smart!! I have a mac book air and must try this... Thank You!!
Have to say that Spotlight is something I just use without thinking on the Mac, and saves having to launch a browser and do a google search :)
I use the spotlight search on my iPhone all the time but seldom on my Mac. Thanks for this video - I'm going to try to remember to use it more.
Another nice video from a fellow Brit! I don't get though why use it for a web search and then hit cmd B. Why not just search directly in the browser. I guess I'm new to mac and haven't found much use for spotlight yet but this gives me some ideas
I keep telling myself to use Spotlight more and more but I continue to forget about Spotlight on a regular basis. Maybe this video will remind me how useful Spotlight can be on the Mac
great! thank you
Yes enjoy your videos very much and I have a question. How do I make my 4 digit passcode to a 6 digit. Any help I would appreciate
Great video. I have learned a lot from this video about Spotlight Search I never knew. It is a very useful tool on the Mac. I am a PC person, but have a Macbook Pro that I don't use very much, but want to use more. I could use some lessons on how to get around on the Mac especially moving from one App that is opened to another. I feel like a fish out of water. Any suggestions? I appreciate any you may have. Thanks for sharing, I love your videos because they are very detailed and you explain it so well! ☺
who would've thought a video about Spotlight would kinda blow my mind? But it did!
Quality stuff, as always... 🦄
Hey Tom! Thanks for all the awesome and helpful videos friend.
Question: is there a particular case you use that is your go to day to day?
Thanks.
Hi
Would you make a video comparing it to ray cast? That would be awesome
Good to know I can use kind:contacts to find contact info. Spotlight doesn't show contact info otherwise.
Hey I love your videos. QUESTION: what is the advantage of the Spotlight over the regular Command+F search…? I can’t see much difference, is there one? Thanks!
What is the VPN that you recommend?
This is amazing. I didn’t know this even existed
Do you know if spotlight can search for running applications or its window title ?
For example if I have a Chrome instance with Gmail opened, could I search for 'Gmail' to get the focus on that Chrome instance ?
I can do that with Rofi on Linux, and it's so useful
You don't need to ask the weather for UK. It'll rain anyway. 😅
Is there any setting I need for the weather function to work? it only allows me to open the app, I already did the reindex thing, but still same results, Im not sure what I should do
How did you get the copy box when doing calculations?
It’s probably a feature of the new OS (Sonoma).
helpfull
Comprehensive…however, I’m running Sonoma 14.5 in conjunction with Davinci Resolve 18.6.6 and a Logi MX Master 3S. Davinci has a function that uses “Middle-Click” to copy a color grade. I’ve configure the Master 3S to define the wheel button to ‘Middle-Click’ but when I 'middle-click’, the Spotlight Search pops up. Disabling the keyboard function works as designed, however I have yet to find a way to disable Spotlight initiated from the mouse…. any thoughts would be appreciated (other than migrating over to Windoze).
I do use it, but not on a Mac. On iPad as I don't have a Mac.
Can I use spotlight search to find files in SharePoint
Spotlight is THE part of the Mac environment that’s always set it head and shoulders above the Windows system.
The reason I don’t use is the I can’t use it to locate where a file is located.
Clearly I haven’t been using spotlight to its full potential. Nor did I know about the keyboard shortcuts.
Spotlight Search is a silly name for this. I’ve always called it super search because that’s what it is.
sadly "Alfred" is still 10 times more useful..I would really miss easy commands like "quit all apps" or "shut down" if I'd be using only spotlight
sheesh spotlight is neglected guys!