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1. #HOW TO USE IMESSAGE ON MAC TO SEARCH TEXT HOW TO#
2. #HOW TO USE IMESSAGE ON MAC TO SEARCH TEXT PDF#
3. #HOW TO USE IMESSAGE ON MAC TO SEARCH TEXT ARCHIVE#

#HOW TO USE IMESSAGE ON MAC TO SEARCH TEXT ARCHIVE#

Here are the Mac iMessage settings to make sure that you are archiving text messages on your Mac: Mac Settings to Save and Archive Text Messages from iMessage This information is specific to Macs – it will not work directly on your iPhone, but hopefully you are already using iMessage on your Mac as well, and saving all text message history (if you aren’t, why not?)

#HOW TO USE IMESSAGE ON MAC TO SEARCH TEXT HOW TO#

How to Search and Print from an Old, Long Text Message Thread on Your Mac

So read on, we’re going to tell you about the app that we personally use, and give you the link. The bottom line is that it’s just not feasible to do this without installing an app specially made to help you search all those messages (we found one article claiming to tell you how to do it without a third-party app, but all that article said to do was scroll, scroll, scroll your way to the top – who has the time to do that with very long text message threads?)

#HOW TO USE IMESSAGE ON MAC TO SEARCH TEXT PDF#

Moreover, if you go into Joe’s thread, and scroll up and up to get past the date in question, when you exit Joe’s thread it will default back to the last 8 or 10 screens, so there is no way on the iPhone to directly search older text messages.Īnd even on the Mac, if you are trying to search through an old, long text message thread – or trying to print that whole long text message thread (or a part of it) whether to PDF or actual paper – it is tedious and laborious to have to scroll through dozens, if not hundreds, of pages in the text message thread. The thing is, on an iPhone that search bar will only search messages that are already loaded the default number of screens loaded in iMessage seems to be about 8 to 10 screens’ worth on either the iPhone or the Mac.

Oh, it’s fine if you are just searching to find that text message that you know you received from, let’s say, Joe, and it was a recent message, as then the fastest way to do that search is to go to Joe’s text message thread, scroll up to a message from a date before you think the one you were searching for was sent, and just read the darned thread, without using the iPhone’s iMessage search bar. (Unobtrusive plea for financial support by tipping us.) (To cycle through each of those instances within that thread, use ‘command-g’.) Now, of course, you know in which thread you are searching for that term, however when you go to that thread to view the search results, you will see that it has taken you to the very first instance of that word appearing in that text message thread. On the Mac, even with a specific thread selected, the search shows you every message thread with every contact where the search term was mentioned. However, the native iMessage search is seriously limited on both the iPhone and the Mac.

To get to the beginning of a text message thread on your Mac, you just keep pulling the scroll bar up, over and over, until you reach the top.Īnd it has to be said right up front that iMessage on both the iPhone and the Mac has a search bar: Here’s an easier way to do it, along with how to search text message history, and how to print out all or some of those text messages!įirst, to review, to get to the beginning of text messages on an iPhone you tap the very top of the screen repeatedly, while in the thread. If you have an iPhone or Mac, and want to get to the beginning of a long text message conversation, you don’t have to manually scroll through pages and pages of the text message thread to view old messages.