Hands-on with the new, proactive Spotlight in iOS 9<article>
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Spotlight in iOS has never gotten a lot of respect, even as it’s become more powerful. Hidden as a swipe-right option from the home screen before iOS 7: The Flattening, it’s only starting with iOS 8 that it went beyond a rough way to find stuff within a set of Apple’s apps to become a more robust combination of deeper searching and suggestions of what you might want.</p><p>
iOS 9 takes it a step further, integrating suggestions from Siri and opening up to third-party developers including their results. It makes for a much richer experience, and more is to come as apps are updated.</p><h2>Proactive search and app search</h2>
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iOS 8 brought in information from the rest of the world: Wikipedia results, information from current news, places and movie showtimes near you, appropriate matches from things Apple can sell and give you (apps, books, music, movies, and the like), and websites that might match your search.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2984323/ios/hands-on-with-the-new-proactive-spotlight-in-ios-9.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Hands-on with the new, proactive Spotlight in iOS 9
