Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS Tahoe
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- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages and calls
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Summarise notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
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- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Control your iPhone from your Mac
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio with AirPlay
- Make and receive calls and text messages on your Mac
- Use your iPhone internet connection with your Mac
- Share your Wi-Fi password with another device
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos and scans from iPhone or iPad
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Sync music, books and more between devices
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- Get started
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- Accessibility features for vision
- Get started with VoiceOver
- Zoom in on what’s around you
- Zoom in on your Mac screen
- Increase font size and icons
- Adjust the display colours
- Hover to zoom in on text and colours
- Listen to or change how text appears in apps
- Customise onscreen motion
- Increase the size of what’s on your screen
- Make the pointer easier to see
- Have your Mac speak text that’s on the screen
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
Search for anything with Spotlight on Mac
Spotlight helps you quickly find things on your computer and shows suggestions from apps, files, actions, the internet and the Clipboard. From Spotlight, you can open or copy an item, see its location or take action.
Search for something
On your Mac, do one of the following to open Spotlight:
Press Command-Space bar.
Click
(if shown) in the menu bar.If the Spotlight icon isn’t in the menu bar, add it using Menu Bar settings.
Press
(if available) in the row of function keys on the keyboard.
You can drag Spotlight anywhere on the desktop, and resize it so you can see more or fewer results.
In the search field, enter what you’re looking for — results appear as you type.
Tip: Press the Up Arrow key on your keyboard to see your previous Spotlight searches.
Spotlight lists top matches first; click a top match to preview or open it. Spotlight also suggests variations of your search; those results appear in Spotlight or on the web.
If your search turns up unexpected or too many results, you can refine it. See Narrow your search results in Spotlight.
Use Spotlight search results
In the Spotlight results, do any of the following:
Open an item: Double-click it. Or select the item, then press the Return key. This action may open an app, such as Messages , the Tips app and more.
Note: During downtime, or if you reach the time limit set for apps in Screen Time settings, app icons in results are dimmed and an hourglass icon
Show the location of a file on your Mac: Select the file, then press and hold the Command key. The file’s location appears at the bottom of the preview.
Copy an item: Drag a file to the desktop or a Finder window.
Take an action: Spotlight lets you take hundreds of actions without lifting your hands off the keyboard. And new quick keys help you perform actions even faster. See Take actions and shortcuts in Spotlight.
Get calculations and conversions: You can get answers to mathematical expressions and conversions in Spotlight. See Get calculations and conversions in Spotlight.
Browse your Clipboard history: With Spotlight, you can find information that you previously copied to your Clipboard. See Search your Clipboard history in Spotlight.
