I just switched from iPhone 5 to a 6. The SEARCH function in the text screen of past messages is not working. I search for a word and no texts are displayed (I know the messages are there, but search not finding them)
iPhone 6, iOS 8
Apple should do something about this it's really annoying and a basic feature yet it doesn't work! My iPhone 6 searches only today and yesterday's messages. Anything older than that it just says not found although it's there!!!
So How do we get Apple's attention to get this fixed???
I have the same issues on 3 clients devices. Very frustrating to not be able to provide an answer. Major fail on this release Apple
Change the language for all of iOS to a different language, then change it back. It worked for me. See this thread:
I was just about to ask the same question. The search option has always been terrible and now this. Another reason I shouldn't be using an iGarbage for business...
The language switching didn't work for my or my gf. Tried it many times.
Sorry to hear that; it worked the first time for me. Just to make sure, are you just changing the keyboard language, or are you changing the language for your entire device?
Entire device. So done with anything Apple related. Even this site *****. Can't login and comeback to this page, refresh and comment. Have to login, go to activity then find this thread. lol POS **** whole thing. Not sure if the grass is greener on the other side but I honestly don't hear as much complaints.
Same problem. I just changed the language to Spanish then back to English. Didn't fix text search. Then changed it to French then back to English. It totally fixed the problem. Crazy. It works great now.
Neither language changes helped me. Where is Apple? Do they not check these forums???? How in the world are we supposed to report issues?
I had this issue! I tried changing the language and it sort of worked. but it got all funky and even though I changed it back to English the autocorrect kept fixing things to Spanish words. I did find what worked though and my phone is fixed!!! I got everyone in my family who was sharing my iCloud acct off my acct and got them their own apple ID's and wa-lah! It is working just like it used to. I'm so happy to be done with this issue. For it not to search the text was a real inconvenience sometimes. Hope this helps others.
I tried to change to chinese language twice and it didn't work. I tried the Spanish and here is how it worked for me:
1. Switch to Spanish (Setting, General, Languge and Region)
2. Search "ok" on text (I Used other word but it turned out zero search found...which was worse then when it could at least search for past two days originally. But I think if i have used "ok"', it might have found some text....cause that was what happened after I switch back to English.)
3. Power off
4. Power on
5. Change back to English
6 search "ok" and then " Thanks" which seem to help the phone refresh it searching function.
7. After tried out those two more common words in most text, the rest search seems to work afterwards.
Hope it works for you! I actually saw this solution on the other post and after my text search worked, I could not find the post to thank the person who took the time to post. Thanks to the kind hearts out there making time to share and help others!
Well I will thank YOU because this worked for ME! Thank you so much for posting this, you're one of the kind hearts too! :-D
text message search on iPhone 6 not working
