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Spotlight and old iMessages

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applefanboy4

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Apr 9, 2015
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When I use spotlight search, I can still see the first maybe 8 words of old texts that ive deleted and aren't on my phone anymore. But I can't see the whole message. When I click on it, it opens iMessages and since the messages are deleted it doesnt appear.

Whats the use of this feature? Whats the point? Whats the use of seeing 8 words of an old deleted message, one that you can't bring back and can't see the entire conversation for?
 
It's because it's still stored in the old search index which only gets updated once in a while. I believe you can force it to update (basically reindex) by doing something like unchecking everything in spotlight settings (in particular Messages), rebooting, then enabling things that you want again, and I believe rebooting one more time after that.
 
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