Spotlight on iPhone can do a lot. It can search for files, folders, and applications on the iPhone, as well as handle unit conversions, selected calculations, or facilitate changes to some settings on your iPhone. In addition, you can also use it to search for photos and videos from your iPhone's photo gallery. How to do it?
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Spotlight on the iPhone serves as a powerful search tool that allows users to quickly find and access content. While it is primarily focused on searching for apps, contacts, and text content within apps, the operating system iOS 17 videos were also added.
You can now search for videos by scenes, people, and activities with Spotlight on iPhone. In addition, after clicking on the result, you will have an interface that will highlight the parts of the video that match your query.
- First, activate Spotlight by swiping down on the desktop.
- Enter keywords related to the video you are looking for in the search bar. Spotlight can search for videos using items Lide, Activities or Scenes. To be more specific, you can enter "Videos" at the beginning of the search string.
- So if you're looking for a video of a person whose name is added in the Photos app, you can search for their videos directly using their name. But it also works in general, for example you can search for babies or children, pets, etc. in general. You can also search for activities like dancing, gaming, etc. or scenes like beach, mountains, etc. You can also combine them to refine your search.
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From the interface with the video being played, you can then tap the Photos icon to go to the given video directly in your iPhone's gallery, move the video to a shared library, save it to a selected album or share it.
