cannot search messages after upgrading to iOS8!!!

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Thank you so much for your help. This was making me crazy not being able to find my old texts since I use my phone for work. Really appreciate your help with this!

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.

I've gone ahead and reported it here.

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

Funnily enough that feedback page has a bug itself! The submit button doesn't appear in Chrome on OSX, I had to use safari to report the bug iOS bug and then submit a separate bug report for the buggy bug report page *rolleyes*

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.

I hope a lot they will. It seems for me that searching crashes after every next synchronization vs iTunes. W\o synchronization iPhone does search in the last messages (not all but only among those last that where sent/received after last synchronization vs i Tunes). Does anybody find out the same?

I can only search my most recent messages, but no more than the last 7 or 8.

I Tried all the solutions posted. The change language one works for about 24 hrs for me. Each time I do it, I am excited, then mid-afternoon the next day, I am bs m to having the problem again. This is really affecting my business performance because I keep in touch with clients by searching for their texts.

Having the same problem with iPhone 6. It is extremely annoying considering how much I use search in messages!

One thing that I found is interesting is that it's a problem on my iPhone six and my wife's iPhone 6+ but is not a problem on our iPads.

I have an iPhone 5S with iOS 8.0.2 and I tried the suggestion of changing languages and changing back to English. I also unchecked messages from the spotlight search menu and then checked it back on. One of these did the trick and fixed my search function inside of my text messages app. Thanks!

The fix worked for about a week and a half. Today I lost ability to search in message app and spotlight. So its definitely no a permanent fix.

Looks like our complaints reached the right people. iOS 8.1 is supposed to resolve this issue. See below:

Yeah!!!! I'm downloading it now. Let's keep our fingers crossed that it works.

Update fixed the problem so far. Let's hope it's permanent.