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Q: cannot search messages after upgrading to iOS8!!!

After upgrading my iPhone5S to iOS8 yesterday, I noticed that it cannot search Messages for information. To be exact, it only searches messages that have been sent/received after the upgrade. It seems it hasn't cached older messages and keeps ignoring them when searching for something. Any help? Is it a bug?

 

iPhone 5S, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 18, 2014 9:10 AM

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  • by Joelrubi,

    Joelrubi Joelrubi Sep 26, 2014 8:38 PM in response to ILuvApples
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    Sep 26, 2014 8:38 PM in response to ILuvApples

    After relentlessly switching languages back and forth out of sheer anger and desperation (Lol), it finally worked for me. But I did something different at the last time. After switching to Spanish, I waited 30 seconds. Then toggled off and on Messages in Spotlight. Then while still in Spanish, did a search and it started to search of all 1.3GB of Messages worth that I have. Switched back to English, started to search, it seems to restart the indexing all over again, but rebuilt pretty fast and now all is back to normal - meaning I can search all of my 1.3GB of Messages again. I know, I have tons of texts, but that's another topic. Finally, I removed the Spanish keyboard. I'm a happy Apple customer again.

  • by SiaGee,

    SiaGee SiaGee Sep 26, 2014 11:04 PM in response to Joelrubi
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    Sep 26, 2014 11:04 PM in response to Joelrubi

    Tried this as well before and did it again; it starts indexing and works for a few minutes and then it stops working again.

  • by cristivlc,

    cristivlc cristivlc Sep 27, 2014 1:24 AM in response to cristivlc
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    Sep 27, 2014 1:24 AM in response to cristivlc

    UPDATE: All of a sudden it stopped working. Why Apple, why?!

  • by ahaglund,

    ahaglund ahaglund Sep 27, 2014 9:14 AM in response to Joelrubi
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    Sep 27, 2014 9:14 AM in response to Joelrubi

    YES, this works!  I too have been trying all kinds of methods to solve this issue.  This procedure described by joelruby above fixed it.  The key is to toggle the spotlight search on and off while still in the foregin language as well as performing a search or two, and give it a little time.  After switching back to english again give it a little time but your searches in messages should start working.  There may be merit in first trying to search from the home screen rather than the messages app.  This solved my issue on an iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, and an iPad mini retina all running iOS 8.0.2.

  • by SiaGee,

    SiaGee SiaGee Sep 27, 2014 9:31 AM in response to ahaglund
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    Sep 27, 2014 9:31 AM in response to ahaglund

    Mine started working again. Let's see how long it lasts this time.

  • by triciacastro,

    triciacastro triciacastro Sep 27, 2014 7:55 PM in response to Joelrubi
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    Sep 27, 2014 7:55 PM in response to Joelrubi

    Thanks joelrubi! You're a genius! It worked on mine. I hope it lasts long! Thanks to ahaglund for the additional instructions too!

  • by mohanp,

    mohanp mohanp Sep 29, 2014 7:31 AM in response to Joelrubi
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    Sep 29, 2014 7:31 AM in response to Joelrubi

    Thanks!

    Your suggestion worked for me.

    Followed it to the letter!

  • by learc8gb,

    learc8gb learc8gb Sep 30, 2014 2:42 AM in response to dtedge
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    Sep 30, 2014 2:42 AM in response to dtedge

    just a quick note, changing the language to CHINESE and back does not solve the problem. So I'm not sure if all languages are the same. Changing to spanish and back did solve the problem.

  • by Anatolkin,

    Anatolkin Anatolkin Sep 30, 2014 6:37 AM in response to Emulty
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    Sep 30, 2014 6:37 AM in response to Emulty

    Same vs me. Switching languages to Polish, Russian, English, Spanish gave no effect. Still no way to search in text and iMessages

    iPhone 5, iOS 8.02

  • by dr.luca,

    dr.luca dr.luca Sep 30, 2014 7:08 AM in response to Joelrubi
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    Sep 30, 2014 7:08 AM in response to Joelrubi

    Thank's a lot Joelrubi!

    It worked like a charm for me too.

    Like mohanp said: "Followed it to the letter!"

     

    Ohh... and yeah... i did it AFTER updating to ios8.0.2.

  • by dan.aylward,

    dan.aylward dan.aylward Sep 30, 2014 9:34 AM in response to dtedge
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    Sep 30, 2014 9:34 AM in response to dtedge

    Ok, here's my story, hopefully it'll help those of you who are still having problems with this.

     

    When I upgraded to iOS7 last year on my iPhone 5, I had the same problem.  This distressed me greatly, because I manage apartment buildings, and I keep track of tenants contact info in my text messages; as long as I use their name somewhere in a text, I can search it to find their phone number, or if I miss a call from a tenant, I can search for the phone number in my messages, and see any texts we exchanged so I can identify who it was.  So, when I can't search messages, it makes it a real pain. 

     

    I finally found that if I did an iCloud backup, erased the iPhone, and restored from the backup, the message searching worked again.  Problem solved.

     

    Now, with 8.0, now on my iPhone 5s, the same thing happened.  I said "crap", but I knew what to do - I backed up to iCloud, erased the phone, restored from the backup, and boom, message searching worked.

     

    For a while.  Then it stopped.  AARGH!  I did it again.  Same thing - worked for a while (like half a day) then stopped.  That's when I tuned into this message thread.  I tried switching languages.  No luck.  I updated to 8.0.2.  No dice.  Tried switching languages again.  No cigar.  Then I did the backup-delete-restore again, and finally, it started working, and it has stayed working for a couple days now.  Whew!

     

    I never tried switching languages multiple times and waiting and all that rigor that was posted more recently, but it certainly seems that 8.0.2 was the difference in at least getting the backup-delete-restore method to work, so if you're having trouble still, try that.

  • by JMoritz33,

    JMoritz33 JMoritz33 Sep 30, 2014 12:08 PM in response to dtedge
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    Sep 30, 2014 12:08 PM in response to dtedge

    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.

  • by Ceppy,

    Ceppy Ceppy Sep 30, 2014 10:03 PM in response to dtedge
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    Sep 30, 2014 10:03 PM in response to dtedge

    After trying the Language "solution" about 20 times, with every different version of it.....nothing worked. Then I went in to the keyboard, turned of Emoji and Spanish (I never turned Spanish on to my knowledge, so I am guessing that it added to my keyboards when I switched language. Search works like a charm in both the "Messages" search bar and the "Spotlight Search"

     

    Settings> General> Keyboard> Keyboards> English> QWERTY (I already had on QWERTY and never actually went to it, but just letting you know what mine is set on)

  • by corpski,

    corpski corpski Oct 1, 2014 8:51 PM in response to Ceppy
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    Oct 1, 2014 8:51 PM in response to Ceppy

    Just curious - I was wondering if anyone in this thread doesn't have emoji installed.

     

    I experienced some weirdness today with message search failing a few days after a clean restore from an iCloud backup.  Deleted the emoji keyboard, switched to Spanish, and found out that the Spanish and SwiftKey keyboards I installed could search messages, but the english keyboard could not (crazy eh?).  I proceeded to delete the Spanish keyboard and switched back to English.  Now my search works again, but who knows until when?

  • by rands80,

    rands80 rands80 Oct 3, 2014 8:18 AM in response to Joelrubi
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    Oct 3, 2014 8:18 AM in response to Joelrubi

    This worked for me! Thank you!

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