Can I archive conversations on messenger?

[xman1102]

Brand new to the iPhone as of yesterday. My employer bought me an XS that I'm required to use.

Up until yesterday, I used Google messenger on my Galaxy phone. The one feature I really liked was archiving conversations and I'm not finding out how to do that on my XS. I liked archiving them because I got into a habit of opening up the wrong conversation and texting the wrong person. So I would archive all my conversation until I was texted or I needed to go back to that message.

My brain gets overwhelmed when I look at my messages and I have numerous conversations staring at me and I have to scroll to find the one I'm looking for.

Does this exist or an app I can use to accomplish this?

 

[jonblatho]

No, your best bet is searching (which is much improved in iOS 13 if you haven’t installed it yet).

 

[xman1102]

No, your best bet is searching (which is much improved in iOS 13 if you haven’t installed it yet).

What does this mean? I've upgraded to 13.1

 

[jonblatho]

Searching your messages for a contact, specific words, etc. is much improved in iOS 13 compared to previous versions.

As an example, months ago a friend told me his new work schedule and I remembered that he said “schedule is different now.” I searched for “schedule different” and it pulled up that months-old message immediately so that I could reference it when planning to meet up more recently. In iOS 12, I couldn’t have dreamed of that; it’d have been a ton of scrolling or trial and error with search (or just asking him again).

So if you’re looking for old messages at least sometimes based on their contents (which is what I got from your original post), searching is now a really good way to get around.

 

[xman1102]

Searching your messages for a contact, specific words, etc. is much improved in iOS 13 compared to previous versions.

As an example, months ago a friend told me his new work schedule and I remembered that he said “schedule is different now.” I searched for “schedule different” and it pulled up that months-old message immediately so that I could reference it when planning to meet up more recently. In iOS 12, I couldn’t have dreamed of that; it’d have been a ton of scrolling or trial and error with search (or just asking him again).

So if you’re looking for old messages at least sometimes based on their contents (which is what I got from your original post), searching is now a really good way to get around.

Thank you for this suggestion. This could come in handy, for sure.

The main thing is hiding all my conversations until I need to use one.

 

[jonblatho]

Thank you for this suggestion. This could come in handy, for sure.

The main thing is hiding all my conversations until I need to use one.

Yeah, there’s no way as of now to do that and it can certainly come in handy. You might want to suggest it to Apple via apple.com/feedback (they do read them) or feedbackassistant.apple.com; it always helps for them to know how much the public wants a given feature in order to get that feature implemented.