cannot search messages after upgrading to iOS8!!!

I have been following this thread for a few days now. I had this problem with my iPhone 5 running ios7. It stopped after I updated my 5 to ios8. However, several days after updating my 5, I purchased a iPhone 6 and within a few days the problem returned. I performed a backup, reset my 6 to factory settings and restored it from the backup. My 6 appeared to be fixed, but several days later the problem searching text messages returned. Frustrated, I contacted Apple. An Apple support rep recommended that I not restore the phone from a previous backup and start clean. I did that also and a few days later the problem returned. I took the phone into an ATT store and the manager and practically every rep there tried to figure out what was causing this issue to no avail, and sent me to the Apple store for further assistance. Well, the Apple reps had no clue either as to how to fix it and replaced it. The Apple Tech recommended that I set it up under a new profile. In fact, he did it for me at the store. The new phone appeared to work fine until I synced it with iTunes on my personal computer and now, only 2 days later, my brand new phone with a different profile is having the same issue. I checked with to other family members and friends who recently purchased the new 6 and they have the same problem, but just didn't realize it. I rely upon this feature as apart of my work and it has become very difficult to perform my job without it. I will try changing the language next, but I really hope Apple is reviewing this post and comes out with a permanent fix soon.

Here is my update after speaking with an Apple rep today about this problem. The rep had not encountered this issue thus far so I referred her to this post. She reviewed it with a "senior tech" who said that he was actually able to duplicate the problem on his personal iPhone 6. She said that he would prepare a "ticket" for submission to the software engineers who would research it and hopefully, I should expect that it will be addressed in the next update. I suspect that this issue will get resolved now that it seems to be a problem that affects them personally. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Thanks for the link.

we need to fill as much as possible this bug report in order for Apple to take this bug into account...

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

let's hope apple will finally release an update.

It seems to be working for me; I have the following selected in General/Spotlight Search:

Mail

Contacts

Messages

Videos

Notes

Apple had me restore my phone but suggested not to do the backup to avoid bringing over bad coding. I've lost a lot but think I may have to use the old back up to get things back.

In my experience, Joelrubi's solution is a temporary fix. The fix will undo itself anywhere from a few hours later to a few days. Apple still hasn't come up with a definitive fix to this problem. Good luck to you.

I have been having this issue on and off with the iphone 5 since iOS 7. Usually I have been restoring the phone but I used the language trick most recently and the search is working for 3 days now. I wonder if this issue is with syncing the phone with iTunes based on your comments. Next time I sync I will check to see if the message search gets disabled again.

Same problem on 5S; 8.0.2 didn't solve the issue.

search in messages only seems to search the messages after iOS 8 upgrade.

Waiting for 8.0.3!!!

I'm having the same issue and have tried the language switching, iMessage on/off, and installing the 8.0.2 update. The search would work temporarily a couple times, but it then stops after a bit.

This is such a pain.

Do we have to report this as a bug somehow if we want to know that apple are investigating or can we trust someone reports bugs based on thread feedback from this forum?

I think that if more of us report it then there is a greater chance that Apple will address it.

Well unfortunately this method only worked for my iPhone 5s and did not solve the issue on my iPad retina mini of my wife's iPhone 4s. Hopefully Apple will release a patched version of iOS 8 soon. There are major news outlets reporting this issue along with other known issues some with fixes but this one is reported as no known fix yet.

After updating to 8.0.2 successfully, everything is fine EXCEPT that I still can NOT search Messages. I have an iPhone 6, so maybe this problem is limited to the 6. Real bummer. Apple is so sloppy these days.

Hello

thank you all for sharing you experience.

unfortunatly none of the above solutions have worked for me.

I Have just even noticed that now after few manipulations on my iPhone 5s (with 8.02) the spotlight doesn't even work anymore...

HHas someone been able to reach Apple developpers ?

this bug doesn't seem to have been properly resolved over the different iOS version.

apple devs, if you read us! Can you fix that bug?

many thanks

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Unfortunately I tried all mentioned here - search appears in last sent messages only but sometime doesnt go even in it. I hope a lot that next update will fix this problem. That bug makes the iPhone useless in my business 😟