Apple iPhone iOS 5.1 - Manual (Page 29)

Searching
You can search many apps on iPhone, including Contacts, Mail, Calendar, Music, Messages, Notes,
and Reminders. You can search an individual app, or all apps at once.
Search iPhone: Go to the Search screen. (From the first Home screen, flick right or press the
Home button .) Enter text in the Search field.
Search results appear as you type. Tap an item in the list to open it. Tap Search to dismiss the
keyboard and see more results.
Icons next to the search results show which app the results are from.
iPhone may display a top hit for you, based on your previous searches. Safari search results include
options to search the web or to search Wikipedia.
App What’s searched
Contacts First, last, and company names
Mail To, From, and Subject fields and the messages of all accounts
Calendar Event titles, invitees, locations, and notes
Music Music (names of songs, artists, and albums) and the titles of podcasts,
videos, and audiobooks
Messages Names and text of messages
Notes Text of notes
Reminders Titles
Search also searches the names of the native and installed apps on iPhone, so if you have a lot of
apps, you may want to use Search to locate and open apps.
Open apps from Search Enter the app name, then tap to open the app directly from the search
results.
Use the Spotlight Search setting to specify which contents are searched and the order the results
are presented in. See “Spotlight Search” on page 165.
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