If it finds a keyword, it lists that conversation as a search result. Tapping it opens the conversation and highlights the most recent message your query was used in. Like Facebook, iMessage prioritizes searching for people’s names first rather than keywords in conversations. On iOS, you can reveal the search bar in the Messages app by pulling down or tapping the time at the top of the screen. Yes, you can back up or search through conversations, but it’s no easy task and comes with limitations.
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IMessage has always had search issues and an iOS or OS X update has yet to fix them. Clicking the right and left arrows also pages through the results.
What’s great is that Facebook automatically organizes the results in reverse chronological order and searches across all of your archived messages with all of your friends, going past years in the past if necessary.Īdditionally, if you click a result, you’re taken directly to that section of your conversation history. Underneath that, you can click Search Messages to initiate a search within messages for the word or phrase you entered. At first Facebook just searches for people or conversation names. The easiest way to access it is by first clicking the Messages icon on the top right when logged in. This is where Facebook’s website remains one step ahead, as it has a powerful search feature buried in Messages. The only function the search bar serves is for finding names of Facebook friends you already messaged. As of now, you cannot search for specific messages in a conversation in the Messenger app.
However, search is one area in the app that still significantly lags behind the Facebook desktop website.
As mobile usage keeps climbing, Facebook continues to add features to its Messenger app before adding them to the website.
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