searching text messages in ios8

Try changing language.

General- language and region- iphone language

Put it in one you can find your way back out of, or remember how many down each option is.

Then change back to English.

I did this twice and then the search message function worked as it used to.

thanks for help...i had to do it 3 times. after second did not work, while in the foreign language mode for 3rd try, i searched messages and it work , so i then backed back out and i changed back to english and it worked!!!!

thanks thanks thanks...

ps , the comment out counting down where each item that you a clicking is critical. i did not do the first time...thought i would remember. had to use german to english translator to input words to find my way back.

simple thing is take a screen shot of each page as you start for the first time and work your way thru it....cheers...s

I have same issue, I started a thread on this couple weeks ago. Changing the language only worked temporarily for a few days. I still can't search. Hope Apple fixes this.

Yes. Mine messed up also.

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Financial Consultant

Spangler Financial Services

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This language change did not work for my phone.

I changed the language to Spanish then back to English. Didn't fix text search. Then changed it to French then back to English. It fixed the problem. Crazy. It works great now.

Thanks. Your solution some how not working for me. But with below sequence, it work fine for my phone.

1. Switch to Spanish

2. Power off phone

3. Power up again

4. Try search ok...

5. Switch to English

6. Power off and on again

7. Search is now ok for now... let's cross the figner it works forever...