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Willmason Author

Level 1

7 points

Deleted SMS text messages found in search

I regularly delete SMS (text message) conversations. When I search my iPhone, however, I find that conversations I have deleted are discovered by the search.

If I select a deleted message that is discovered by search, the phone jumps to the Messages screen but the deleted message does not appear. The deleted messages are only visible in search mode.

How can I ensure that messages I delete are genuinely deleted from my phone's memory and will not show up when I search my phone? I've tried switching the phone on and off but that doesn't work. I've also synced the phone to my computer. That has no effect.

I'd be really grateful for any advice!

Thanks!

MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Core i7, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 4GB RAM

Posted on Sep 18, 2010 2:44 PM

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Garath81

Level 1

8 points

Posted on Dec 3, 2013 12:07 PM

It worked perfectly! Ty!

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Jul 14, 2011 2:27 PM in response to cmgrospe

The issue is not SMS recovery..................

The issue is...............texts that you thought were deleted are not! It *****.

Tati44

Level 1

0 points

Nov 3, 2011 11:29 PM in response to Willmason

People i have the solution go to setting then general spotlight search and then select messages

Dec 16, 2011 12:22 AM in response to Willmason

This works without jailbreak 🙂

http://www.icopybot.com/itunes-backup-manager.htm

Mar 10, 2012 6:05 AM in response to Willmason

And does anyone know how to recover these sms ?

Jul 4, 2012 1:41 AM in response to Willmason

http://ipod.about.com/od/iphone3gs/qt/spotlight-iphone.htm

This helped me it atleast dessapeared my sms on "iPhone search" good luck.!

Dashka

Level 1

2 points

Mar 25, 2013 4:00 AM in response to Malcolm Rayfield

it's not depend on version ...now 6.1.3 same...

Mar 26, 2013 1:10 AM in response to Willmason

if you've backed up your phone via iTunes, all of your messages will still be there as of that point. Hopefully you do it often and wont lose many of the new ones..

Apr 22, 2013 4:56 AM in response to Willmason

Hey if you have the iPhone 5 simply got to settings/general/spotlight/ then click messages at the bottom and it got rid of all of mine!

Nindo

Level 1

0 points

Jul 13, 2013 10:04 AM in response to Willmason

The point isn't to get rid of messages in spotlight, but to get rid of DELETED message from showing up in spotlight. Please stop posting useless fixes.