{"id":67620,"date":"2014-06-02T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=67620"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:39:41","slug":"spotlight-ios-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/spotlight-ios-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight suggestions come to iOS 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Search is getting much more useful on iOS 8. Apple is integrating its new Spotlight search that it just <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/os-x-yosemite-announced-coming-fall-2014\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debuted on OS X Yosemite<\/a> into iOS as well.<\/p>\n<p>The feature pulls information from around the web like <a title=\"Wikipedia for iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/wikipedia-mobile.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a>, offering up a quick overview of what you&#8217;re searching for. Spotlight also has the ability to find <strong>nearby restaurants, movie times<\/strong>, and will suggest websites it thinks are relevant to you.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is similar to <a title=\"Google Now news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/google-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Now<\/a> and Bing search but Spotlight also searches your device.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>MORE FROM WWDC 2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everything you need to know about iOS 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/os-x-yosemite-announced-coming-fall-2014\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OS X Yosemite announced, coming fall 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-skewers-android-for-fragmentation\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple skewers Android for fragmentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/spotlight-ios-8\">Spotlight suggestions come to iOS 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/messages-for-ios-8-supports-voice-and-video\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Messages for iOS 8 supports voice and video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/family-sharing-in-ios-lets-you-share-movies-music-and-apps\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Family Sharing in iOS lets you share movies, music and apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-working-on-photos-app-for-mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple working on Photos app for Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/widgets-and-extensions-finally-come-to-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Widgets and extensions finally come to iOS 8<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search is getting much more useful on iOS 8. Apple is integrating its new Spotlight search that it just debuted on OS X Yosemite into iOS as well. The feature pulls information from around the web like Wikipedia, offering up a quick overview of what you&#8217;re searching for. Spotlight also has the ability to find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/spotlight-ios-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spotlight suggestions come to iOS 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":67622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-67620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330666,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67620\/revisions\/330666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67620"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=67620"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=67620"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=67620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}