4/2/2023 0 Comments Chatology services![]() ![]() 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?) 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. (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. Your tips via CashApp, Venmo, or Paypal are appreciated! Receipts will come from ISIPP. The Internet Patrol is completely free, and reader-supported. ![]()
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