Macs Store Text Messages in Folder by Date and Individual Contacts are in the Particular Date FolderĪll in all, ridiculously difficult to search – much like the proverbial needle in the haystack.Īnd this is where the app comes in. That means that while theoretically (and actually) you can use the search bar in your Finder app to search within those folders, because iMessage stores messages in folders by date, not by contact, it’s not very practical. If you read the other article, you know that they are archived by date, not by contact (although they are archived by contact within the date folders, so technically they are archived by contact by date).
Ok, so you have your text message threads being saved on your Mac.
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The above is how you should have your iMessage preferences set to make sure that your Mac is archiving text messages.įor more information on where your Mac stores and archives your text messages see our article Where Messages are Archived and Stored on a Mac and How to Search All of Your iMessage Messages or iChat Messages.
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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 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?)
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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. Your tips via CashApp, Venmo, or Paypal are appreciated! Receipts will come from ISIPP.
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