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Parkinson's Law of Data pithily encapsulates an inescapable fact of digital life: “Data expands to fill the space available for storage.” With each new iteration of the iPhone, the space available for storage keeps getting larger: from 4GB in the original phone to 512GB in a top‐of‐the‐line iPhone 12. So, following Parkinson's Law, we keep adding more data to our iPhones: music, photos, videos, email messages, Safari bookmarks, and on and on.

That's cool because it means you can bring more of your digital world with you wherever you go, but there's another law that quickly comes into play; call it The Law of Digital Needles in Electronic Haystacks: “The more data you have, the harder it is to find what you need.” Fortunately, iOS rides to the rescue by adding welcome search features to the iPhone.

If you use a Mac, then you probably know how indispensable the Spotlight search feature is. It's just a humble text box, but Spotlight enables you to find anything on your Mac in just a blink or two of an eye. It's an essential tool in this era of massive hard drives. (Windows users get much the same functionality with taskbar searches.)

The size of your iPhone storage might pale in comparison to your desktop's drive, but you can still pack an amazing amount of stuff into that tiny package, so you really need a way to search your entire iPhone, including email, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, apps, and much more. And, best of all, Spotlight on the iPhone is just as easy to use as Spotlight on the Mac:

1 Return to any Home screen.

2 Swipe right to navigate the Home screens until you can't go any farther. You should now see a screen that includes a Search box at the top.GeniusAn often‐quicker way to get to the Search box is to swipe down from the top‐left corner to display the Notification Center and then swipe right.

3 Tap in the Search box and then enter your search text. Your iPhone immediately begins displaying items that match your text as you type, as shown in Figure 1.5. 1.5 Flick down on the Home screen and then type your search text.

4 Tap Search to see the complete results. If you see the item you're looking for, tap it to open it.