Search the iPad

ONCE YOU GET YOUR iPad fully loaded, you may actually want to find something on it—a certain song in your music library, a calendar appointment you need to reference, or someone’s address, for example. If you have 64 gigabytes of stuff on a bulging iPad, you may not want to wade around looking for a nugget of information. You can, however, shine the Spotlight on it.

Spotlight is the iPad’s built-in tool for introspection and self-searching. It lets you scan your iPad for words, apps, phrases, names, titles, and more. You can call up songs, appointments, email messages with directions to a house party, and all sorts of other things. You get to Spotlight a few ways: