How to choose which apps Now will search index

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Published 13 Aug 2015

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The app does more than feed you sports scores or suggested TV shows in Now.

ong with the longsting ability to search your web history contacts, also indexes some third-party apps takes you directly into that application if it’s a relevant search result.

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searches the contents of your phone along with apps that you specify.

However, you can control which apps services on your device are part of the search index. To get there, launch Now tap the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines) choose one Search. 

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Turn on or off phone search for select applications.

Then click the boxes to specify which apps you want included or left out. If there’s a app you don’t use that much, in my case ay Books (I use Kindle), it’s to your advantage to turn that off. This way those auto-suggestions won’t take up precious screen real estate in search results.

There are over 70 different apps that hook in to Now. As you add more of them, you can check back here in the one search section to turn the indexing off if you find they’re getting in the way of your searches.