Resolved Message search not returning proper results

[Sajal]

When I am searching in my messages, most of the times proper results are not coming. How can I reindex or fix this?

I tried few steps like changing Language, restart, killed message app etc..

I am on ios 11.2 and will hate to reset and restore if thats the only option.

 

[jrdatrackstar1223]

When I am searching in my messages, most of the times proper results are not coming. How can I reindex or fix this?

I tried few steps like changing Language, restart, killed message app etc..

I am on ios 11.2 and will hate to reset and restore if thats the only option.

Go to Siri&Search -> Messages and then disable it for both things (search within apps and allow or whatever).

Then go back to messages and search.

Then kill messages app and then re-enable the settings in Siri.

Go back to Messages and search again and the results will show up.

Apple’s machine learning algorithms apparently suck and their stuff just gets hung....

 

[Sajal]

It worked! Thanks a lot @jrdatrackstar1223

 

[KUKitch]

This is something I've noticed as well... when you refer to proper results do you mean you know something from awhile back is there, and not showing up? I for one have noticed that you have to keep scrolling up in threads for them to load previous messages up and then things will show up - but that may be a separate issue than what you're referring to... I will say I don't know how to fix that - I wish it would search through entire conversations rather than just the 'current' portions

 

[Sajal]

This is something I've noticed as well... when you refer to proper results do you mean you know something from awhile back is there, and not showing up? I for one have noticed that you have to keep scrolling up in threads for them to load previous messages up and then things will show up - but that may be a separate issue than what you're referring to... I will say I don't know how to fix that - I wish it would search through entire conversations rather than just the 'current' portions

Searching for recent messages, I know the keyword is there, but it does not show up.

However after doing what jrdatrackstar1223 suggested above, it got somewhat fixed. I believe after sometime it will probably fix it all, at least now many results are coming

 

[jrdatrackstar1223]

The only times I've seen this happen is when you restore from a backup or something and say there are message from the backup that proceed the date and time of your restore; the messages will not show up in any search (Messages, Siri, etc). I've only found it to "re-read" your messages from the backup by doing what I've suggested.