Messages finish indexing?

I’m unable to load all of the previous photos in my conversations in iMessage. It reaches the end under “info” and says “More photos will load once messages finishes indexing.” I’ve tried restarting, I have the most recent update, I’ve toggled messages off/on in iCloud and nothing so far has worked.

Posted on Jan 25, 2023 3:38 PM

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sberman

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Jan 25, 2023 3:48 PM in response to eec54

See this related thread.

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