Apple Spotlight

About Apple Spotlight

Spotlight is the default search tool for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Quick access to content is key to an efficient workflow, and there are several ways you can make it easy for people to locate your app's content. Spotlight is a powerful search technology that makes it easy to locate files and content across the system. Using Spotlight, people can search for things using meaningful attributes like the intended audience for a document or the orientation of an image. Make your app’s content searchable. You can share content with Spotlight by making it indexable and specifying descriptive attributes—known as metadata. Spotlight extracts, stores, and organizes this information to allow for fast, comprehensive searches. For developer guidance, see Core Spotlight. Define metadata for your custom file types. Supply a Spotlight Importer plug-in that describes the types of metadata your file format contains.