loading earlier messages in iOS 8

By Mike Fulton, 5 February, 2015

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello,

Has anyone been able to figure out how to load earlier messages in iOS 8? In iOS 7, there used to be a button that said "load earlier messages," but this button is no longer present in iOS 8. VO just says "in progress" and I cannot find any of the older messages in my conversations.

Thanks!
Mike

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By John Lipsey on Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 22:32

There are times when I need a crucial piece of info that's buried in the past of a text conversation. Now, there seems to be no way to get to those. This is more than a little frustrating sometimes. I'll be submitting a bug report on this ASAP, but if there's a work around in the mean time that would be great info to have.

By Mike Fulton on Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 22:32

Has anyone been able to figure this out?

By MarkSarch on Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 22:32

Hi all
the work around is simple you have 2 options
first one
: using voiceOver gestures do
Using 3 fingers swap or flick up or Down in order to change pages.
Second one:
Using just one finger
flick left to move backward
flick right to move forward
when voice Over says progress it means that is loading messages is like automaticly you had pressed the
load earlier messages button.
Sorry for the late reply but haven't seen your post
just this morning was looking for some specific message since 2012 on some contact from my message list it works.