Spotlight can help you find almost anything stored on your iPad in an instant (just as long as you know what word to type to find that item). To make Spotlight work even faster or more accurately, you can define what items Spotlight should find and in what order Spotlight should search for those items.
For example, suppose you're a music collector and store thousands of songs on your iPad. Since finding a particular song may be more important than finding an audiobook or email message stored on your iPad, you can tell Spotlight to search only for music.
You can also customize the order that Spotlight searches for things. That way, if email messages are more important to you than audiobooks, tell Spotlight to search through your email messages first and not bother searching for audiobooks until you've searched for everything else.
To customize Spotlight, follow these steps:
From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
Tap General. The General settings screen appears.
Tap Home. The Home settings screen appears, as shown in Figure 34-3.
Tap Search Results. The Search Results settings screen appears, as shown in Figure 34-4.
Tap any item such as Music, Podcasts, or Mail. Spotlight will search for any item with a check mark next to it and ignore any items that do not have a check mark next to them.
Place your fingertip over the three horizontal lines at the far right of an item, and slide your finger up or down. This lets you rearrange the order that Spotlight searches for items starting from the top.
Press the Home button. The Home screen appears. Try your search again, and see the results!
