Finding your boat from the Home Screen — Spotlight and Siri
Search for an engine, a work order, an issue, a trip or a document from the iPhone Home Screen without opening theONE first — and point Siri at what is on screen.
Your boat's records are now part of your phone's own search. Pull down on the Home Screen and type “port main”, “impeller”, “WO-2291” or “insurance” and theONE's record appears alongside your mail and notes. Tap a system, an issue, an observation, a work order, a trip, a crew card, a jot or the boat herself and you land on that record — the vessel result opens her Vessel Identity card, the one page that carries her name, homeport, HIN, dimensions and tank capacities. Tap a document and you land on it too. Incidents are not in this search: no screen opens one particular incident from a search result, so rather than list what it cannot open, theONE leaves them out — find them in theONE's own search, under Incident Log.
What is included: the vessel, every engine and system, issues, observations, maintenance and work orders, trips, documents (by title, category, vendor and notes — never the scanned pages themselves), your own jots and vessel-wide jots, and crew by name, role and certifications. Documents are indexed only on the owner's, a manager's and the captain's phones — the vault is theirs. On a crew member's phone the index keeps his own crew card only (on a boat he is signed in to), and issues, observations and trips from the day he joined the boat; an engineer's phone keeps the whole history.
What is never included, by design: guests, a crew member's personal notes, medical or dietary information, contact details or emergency contacts, an incident's narrative (incidents are left out altogether), and another person's private jots. If you are a vendor holding a boat's record for work, nothing is indexed on your phone at all — it is not your boat.
Where this lives: on this phone only. It is Apple's local Spotlight index — it is not sent to Apple, not synced to iCloud, and not shared with your other devices. It is encrypted at rest and stays unreadable until the first time you unlock the phone after a restart; after that first unlock the system can read it even while the phone is locked, which is what makes the results show up in Home Screen search at all.
On a screen showing one record — an engine, an issue, an observation or a work order — Siri knows what you are looking at. “Log four hours on this” while the port engine is open needs no engine name.
Steps
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Search from the Home Screen
Swipe down on the Home Screen (or swipe right to the Search page). Type part of a name, a task, a work-order number, or a document title. theONE results carry the app's icon.
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Give it a moment after big changes
The index updates a few seconds after each save. Restoring a backup or importing a boat re-indexes everything on the next launch.
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Point Siri at the screen
Open an engine, issue, observation or work order. With that screen showing, Siri understands “this” — “log hours on this”, “remind me about this one”.
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Make a private jot stay private
A jot set to Private is indexed only on the phones of the person who wrote it — any device signed in to their account. A jot set to Named is not indexed on any phone, not even a named member's. Vessel-wide jots are indexed for everyone aboard with theONE.
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Turn it off
iPhone Settings → Siri & Search → theONE → turn off “Show Content in Search”. theONE's own app lock (Settings → Privacy & Lock) also takes the boat out of this search while it is on, and Siri's lists of your engines and records come up empty; switch the lock off and they come back within a few seconds. The index is Apple's; that switch removes it.
Related
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- What Mission Control is showing youDecode every band, chip, and tile on the dashboard.