When I search in Preview using cmd+F, I am redirected to the first page of the document. However, many times I am just trying to find the nearest appearance of a word inside the page I am reading. Is there a way to go around this?

Search for a term from the Home Screen Scroll to the bottom You see “Search in Apps” which for me includes the entries “Search Maps” and “Search App Store” How do I disable this “Search in Apps section” in iOS 26?

Why does brew search for *peertube* match with *freetube*? How does the search work? brew search peertube ==> Casks freetube brew info --cask freetube ==> freetube: 0.23.5 https://freetubeapp.io/ Not installed From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/HEAD/Casks/f/freetube.rb ==> Name FreeTube ==> Description YouTube player focusing on privacy ==> Artifacts FreeTube.app (App)

For some searches, Spotlight shows strange top hits. I often want to open the "Sound" System Preferences pane using Spotlight. But when I type sound it _always_ shows "DaftCloud for SoundCloud" from the App Store as the top hit. I have never intentionally chosen this item. I have probably hit it a couple of times by mistake, but the vast majority of the time, I navigate one step down using the keyboard and choose "Sound". I rarely listen to music, and never to "DaftCloud" and I never use "SoundCloud". This top hit is weird to me. (Is Apple selling top hits on Spotlight?) I have seen claims that Spotlight can "learn" from user behavior . This doesn't seem to be the case here. I have even intentionally opened "Sound" repeatedly using Spotlight, and it still shows "SoundCloud" first. Interestingly, typing soun (without the final d) shows the "Sound" preference pane first, but as soon as I complete the word sound, it switches to "SoundCloud". (Again, is Apple selling the "sound" keyword?) Anyway, I want the "Sound" preference pane to be the top hit for sound. Is there any way to achieve this? I have explored the Spotlight "Search Results" settings. But they don't seem to offer a way to remove App Store suggestions. I cannot remove "Applications" because that will remove the "Sound" preferences from the results. Some sources claim that I should be able to drag around the "Search Results" in settings , but they don't move for me. I can force "Sound" preferences to the top by using the search query kind:system preferences sound, but that is absurdly long to type.

I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15 inches, mid-2015) with a 2.8 GHz Intel quad core i7 processor, now running macOS Catalina 10.15.3. Before the upgrade, I could do a search as follows. Press ⌘ + F to open a Finder window; select what I want to search (this Mac, recent files, etc); press the Plus Sign to add criteria (such as extension, title, type of file, etc). After the upgrade, there is no Plus Sign. All I can do is search all occurrences of whatever I type. How do I add search criteria like I did before?

I'm used to viewing my library songs and hitting command-f to filter the list. Since upgrading from iTunes to Music this year, command-f triggers the bizarre new search that gives results as bubbles and grids. And I can't seem to exit it via tab or escape or command-shift-f for "filter". - What's the keyboard shortcut to exit this new search (is there one)? - Or, what's the keyboard shortcut to return to viewing my library songs? Apart from my playlists, it's the only view I ever want to see anyway. I don't subscribe to Apple Music or use iCloud to store my songs. - Or, what text can I enter into system prefs for these actions to create custom shortcuts for them?

My iMac running [macOS High Sierra] has two SSD drives: 256GB with the OS on it and 2TB for data. Spotlight returns zero results when doing a search on both drives. Also other apps using Spotlight for searching (for example the Calendar app and Outlook 2016) return no results when doing a search. However, searching an external connected USB drive works perfectly, and also searching a shared remote network drive gives perfect search results! I ran these commands to trigger a reindex:

sudo mdutil -a -i off 
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-v100

and restarted the computer, but that didn't solve my problem: Looking in Finder, I see the root .Spotlight-V100 folder with a red "forbidden" sign. Is this normal? ***Log generated by a Spotlight Search Test in Mints :***

The recent files section is showing many system files, how can it be cleaned up? Here's my current search criteria I couldn't limit it to specific folders Here's what I tried so far. I couldn't find a variable which represents the full path. Which property contains the full path?

Is there any possibility to change default behaviour of Search text box in Finder to search with “Name contains” instead of “Name matches”? I know there is this possibility in advanced searching criteria but that is way too lengthy and usually I just need to quickly find some files by part of the filename. macOS Catalina v10.15.5

I am working on local developments on my local web server. I have dnsmasq on my mac to redirect all .test domains back to my own machine. I'll have an url like "mysite.test/some/path/1" in the url bar. When in Safari, and only Safari, any time I change a url manually it goes to my default search engine. What I mean is, if I go to the url bar and change the url, by hand, to "mysite.test/some/path/2" and press enter - it throws that as a query to my configured search engine, rather than opening the local site. To make it work, I have to *by hand*, and *every time*, add http:// at the start of the url, then make my url change, then press enter. Oh. My. God. Safari. Stop. How can I convince Safari that when I'm working on local domains that I do not want to search? I'd be happy to never ever in a million years use the url bar for searching the web, if that's even possible.

I need help with the following Apple Numbers REGEX.EXTRACT formula that doesn’t return the word before a dot. Below are the text form of the arguments passed to the formula and the formula itself as well as a screenshot.

Pattern: \b\w+\b(?=\.)
String: 123. xpto.
Formula: REGEX.EXTRACT(“123. xpto.”, \b\w+\b(?=\.),1)

Spotlight search finds future events, but macOS Calendar search (top right corner search field) does not. How do I fix this?

For some baffling reason, Apple thinks that whatever I search for in one app will be the same thing that I want to search for in another app. This results in my actual search terms being overwritten in (for example) my text editor just because I searched for something on a web page or in iTunes. Having my carefully-craft regex replaced with "Pink Floyd" is aggravating, to say the least, especially when using a text editor without a search history. The user-interface thinking that led Apple to this decision is beyond my ability to comprehend, but I really would like a way to turn it off. How can I disable this? [The question which this supposedly duplicates](https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/80894/3553) is NOT even close to being the same. It asking WHY this happens, not HOW TO STOP IT. The answer to that question happens to offer a way to stop it _in one program_ even though that's not the subject of the question. So neither does the question ask how to stop it, nor does the answer give a generalized answer about how to stop it. My question has nothing to do with BBEdit. These two questions are only very superficially related. There is no possible way they can be considered a duplicate.

I've noticed that when I type Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night into the Finder search, I get no results but Corey Hart - Sunglasses At gives the desired results. What is going on?

My iPhone has the app *Economist* installed. I can find the app’s icon. A tap to that icon launches the app. Yet when I swipe down on the Home Screen to display the search bar, and type in the word *Economist*, the app is not among the search results. Other apps can be searched by name. Typing “sa” lists the *Safari* browser. Typing “co” displays the *Contacts* app. Why does the search facility lose track of some apps? How can I fix that?

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I want to provide URL links to man page content at apple.com as an authoritative source of information. Describing and quoting the local man page is awkward. Does Apple provide man pages on the web?

In the Google Drive app, I can search all sheets for some text. But it just lists the files containing that text. If I click on a particular spreadsheet, the spreadsheet opens, but it doesn't move to the page/sub-sheet where the text was found. Inside the spreadsheet, I can search, but only on the current sheet. So it seems like I have no way of actually finding where text is when I have multi-sheet spreadsheet? I know on Google Sheets through the Web app (using a web browser on a PC) I can search all sheets of the current spreadsheet, but I can't find the same thing on the iPhone app. I do understand that the iPhone app might not have all the functionality of the Web app, but this seems like a basic function to me.

On my MPB running Sonoma with "Search: This Mac "Documents"" duly displayed, all my Spotlight search results come solely from my iCloud backup. Is there a way to force Spotlight to only return results from my hard disk rather than the iCloud?

Im building a cookbook for a restaurant that I work at in Numbers and need to total the amount of supplies I need for an ordering guide. The ordering guide is as follows: I want the green cell to be the total amount of that ingredient. Each sheet in the book is a different recipe, like this: I just want the par guide to grab the "Scaled Amount" for each ingredient and add them together, so I know how much to buy. Im hoping for it to do this automatically, so Im not manually looking for each cell to add to a total, instead using something like VLOOKUP to combine totals.