If
you are using iPhone from a long time than it is quite possible that you might
have faced issue with search in message and iMessage that when you try to
search for a word in messages iPhone will show result only from few chats but
not from all. Specially iPhone will not search in group chats. It is well known
that search in iMessage is terrible, making searching text in iMessage poor. Even
the latest iOS 11 have search issue in iPhone X/8.
The
iPhone X and iPhone 8,7 are also reported with such issues, infact are reported
with bigger issue like any letter or word entered in search of iMessage, turns
up with no search results.
Apple
needs to look this issue seriously in upcoming releases if iOS as many third
party app developers has make similar feature working withour any complaints. Like
searching for a message within iMessage so bad, yet searching within WhatsApp
is flawless.
How to fix unable to
search text in iMessage /message app:
There
are few workaround and fix available that you may try to fix the issue, as
listed below:
Fix 1: Reset search settings
In
your iPhone, Go to setting Settings>Siri&Search and turn on/off search
for messages. All should be working again in iMessage. If it still does not
work closed settings, reopened settings and turn it back on.
Fix 2:
Clear iMessage account from other device
If
you are unable to search in the message or iMessage apps after upgrading your
iPhone to other one like iPhone X. It is observed that it was only happening
when using iMessage on another device. In this case you should try to wipe out
your old iphone that still uses the same text messages, as soon as you factory
reset the old iPhone it should work on new iPhone.
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