{"id":32660,"date":"2021-05-31T20:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32660"},"modified":"2021-05-31T20:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:27:48","slug":"the-difficulty-of-accessing-old-imessages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/31\/the-difficulty-of-accessing-old-imessages\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difficulty of Accessing Old iMessages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keydiscussions.com\/2021\/05\/28\/apple-charges-for-storing-gigabytes-worth-of-old-imessages-you-cant-reliably-access\/\">Spencer Dailey<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=27319099\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/nn5sbs\/your_iphone_and_icloud_backups_are_full_of\/\">Reddit<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/keydiscussions.com\/2021\/05\/28\/apple-charges-for-storing-gigabytes-worth-of-old-imessages-you-cant-reliably-access\/\"><p>Many iPhone owners have iMessages from years ago that they can&rsquo;t access. For example, my wife and I simply want to read the first few messages that we exchanged in 2017, but we can&rsquo;t.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The cumbersome way Apple lets you (theoretically) access old messages is to &ldquo;scroll to the top&rdquo; of your conversation, but it&rsquo;s extremely time consuming and doesn&rsquo;t work in practice. Yesterday I tried to scroll to the &ldquo;top&rdquo; of my iMessages that were from and to my wife. After just a few minutes, my computer with 16GB of RAM started &ldquo;beach balling&rdquo; and the app froze before I could even get to messages from 6 months ago. Meanwhile, my wife tried to access our earliest messages on her iPhone 8 Plus and it was even sadder: after over 45 minutes of scrolling, she got within a year of the conversation&rsquo;s beginning and then the iMessages app crashed on her.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spencer Dailey (via Hacker News, Reddit): Many iPhone owners have iMessages from years ago that they can&rsquo;t access. For example, my wife and I simply want to read the first few messages that we exchanged in 2017, but we can&rsquo;t. [&#8230;] The cumbersome way Apple lets you (theoretically) access old messages is to &ldquo;scroll to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-06-01T00:27:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"5ca45558-2d5a-49b4-989a-c16d55066f00","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-01T00:27:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXKRVWC1aSbSYmsFtVQZvAA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,140,31,1837,30,1891,141,343],"class_list":["post-32660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-imessage","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-messages","tag-search"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32661,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660\/revisions\/32661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}