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Brien

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It seems like the search function in Messages only returns results for the newest result in a conversation - any way to search for old messages? Hitting 'load more messages' 1,000 times isn't very efficient.
 
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It seems like the search function in Messages only returns results for the newest result in a conversation - any way to search for old messages? Hitting 'load more messages' 1,000 times isn't very efficient.
Have you tried Spotlight?

Although I just tried both in-app and Spotlight searches and both brought up old results.
 
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