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Quickly find specific messages, attachments, and links by filtering through messages with keywords and categories.
Are you struggling to find an important document or specific link you received in Messages? The Messages app has a convenient feature called Smart Search Filters. Here, I will share how to access and use Smart Search Filters in the Message app on iPhone in iOS 18.
The Smart Filters in iOS 18 allow you to effectively search through your conversations and locate a specific text or attachment in a jiffy. With the help of on-device machine learning algorithms, this feature categorizes all your texts on various parameters such as sender, date, keywords, attachments, and more.
So, if you only remember one word about the message you are searching for, it will show all texts containing that word. Overall, these intelligent filtering capabilities elevate the Messages app‘s functionality and bring added convenience.
Besides these new smart filters in the Messages app, there are some default SMS filters.
Furthermore, those who have enabled SMS FILTERING can access the extra filters described below:
Although the message filters and categorization are useful, they may filter out your important messages from unknown senders. The Messages app won’t notify you about these texts. Moreover, you can’t open any links sent by an unknown sender until you reply to them. Therefore, you may disable this feature if you don’t want message filters.
It will stop moving messages from unknown senders into a separate list. If you want to keep filters for iMessage and only want to stop filtering SMS and MMS, select None under SMS Filtering. Now, you will get notifications for unknown SMS or MMS messages, such as verification codes from banks, but they will not end up in the Unknown Senders list.
Use the Messages app like never before!
I hope you’ve discovered a new incredible functionality of the Messages app. These smart filters allow you to effortlessly locate essential messages. So, you don’t need to navigate through countless conversations. If you can’t access the Smart Search Filters, update your iPhone to the latest iOS 18 version.
FAQs
Not at all! Smart Search Filters in the Messages app go beyond just text messages. They also work with multimedia messages, such as photos, videos, and even voice recordings.
Absolutely! The Smart Search Filters in the Messages app are multilingual, meaning they can understand and filter messages in various languages.
Whether you’re looking for links shared in a conversation, attachments like documents or PDFs, or any other specific message type, the smart filters can sort through your messages and give you relevant results.
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Suraj is an operations head on the iGB team. He contributes to the social media section along with tips and tricks for iPhone, Apple Watch. Apart from blogging, he likes to work out as much as he can in his gym and love to listening to retro music.
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