How to search on ipad

You can search iPad‘s built-in applications, including Mail, Calendar, iPod, Video, Notes, and Contacts. Search an individual application, or search all the applications at once using Spotlight. Go to Spotlight: On the main page of the Home screen, flick right or press the Home button. On the Spotlight page, you can press the Home button to return to the main Home screen.

To set iPad to go to the Spotlight when you double-click the Home button, choose Settings > General > Home. Search iPad: On the Spotlight page, enter text in the Search field. Search results appear automatically as you type. Tap Search to dismiss the keyboard and see more of the results.

Tap an item in the results list to open it. Icons to the left of the search results let you know which application the results are from.

Contacts: First, last, and company names Mail: To, From, and Subject fields of all accounts (the text of messages isn’t searched) Calendar: Event titles, invitees, and locations (notes aren’t searched) iPod: Music (names of songs, artists, and albums) and the titles of podcasts and audiobooks Notes: Text of notes

Spotlight also searches the names of built-in and installed applications on iPad.

If you have a lot of applications, you can use Spotlight to locate and open them.

Open an application from Spotlight: Enter the application name, then tap to open the application.

You can choose which applications are searched and the order in which they’re searched. In Settings, choose General > Home > Search Results. More Tutorial for ipad.