Clear Spotlight History

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Mnemesis.X Author

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Clear Spotlight History

Settings > General > Spotlight Search > Check Messages > General

Go to Spotlight and do a search for anything that brings up old messages

Settings > General > Spotlight Search > Uncheck Messages > General

Go to Spotlight and do a search for anything that brings up old messages

Repeat this process until Messages IS checked in Spotlight Search settings but no old messages are found when doing a search.

The process can take as little as few times or up to several times. However, eventually the index will be reset.

I’ve tested this extensively and it works to clear Spotlight Cache of old deleted Messages.

iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.2, Clear Cache Index

Posted on Mar 9, 2013 2:53 PM

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Mnemesis.X Author

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Mar 9, 2013 3:04 PM in response to Mnemesis.X

If this information did the trick and helped you then please leave a reply.

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pdroth

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Mar 10, 2013 3:46 AM in response to Mnemesis.X

For me, your "solution" doesn't work. I'd like to know on how many different devices you tested this "extensively" on.

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Mnemesis.X Author

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Mar 10, 2013 12:22 PM in response to pdroth

I tested this method on 2 iPhone 4s'. It works like a charm on both of them.

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gped17

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Jul 16, 2013 9:00 PM in response to Mnemesis.X

major fail. no change whatsover.

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Jan 20, 2014 9:24 AM in response to Mnemesis.X

Wow it worked like a charm on my iPhone!! Thank you so much!

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mikejduk

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Sep 20, 2015 5:19 PM in response to Skittles90

I arrived here after searching for an answer to clearing my spotlight search history. And as I am sure there will be others who need an answer to this for use on their iMac computers, I thought I would share with you, no techno jive, but a simple process I have discovered completely by accident, but certainly answers the original question. Select 'Spotlight', If you have never cleared your search history a drop-down menu will appear, revealing all your past searches. Select any one of them and at the same time press the 'Back-space' key and hey presto! All gone! Simples! 🙂

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