Ridiculous Whatsapp - search doesnt work

It has been broken since months

Tanmayyy wrote:
It has been broken since months

Oh, but then why is nobody resolving this? It is a basic feature. 
Any workaround?

Chat mein hawala code chal raha hai kya, baba ji?

Anyways, anand vihar dhanbad train lag raha hai... whatsapp company wale videsi hai yeh sab search mein nahin dhoond payenge... @Budhe-Baba

Agnivo007 wrote:

Chat mein hawala code chal raha hai kya, baba ji?

Anyways, anand vihar dhanbad train lag raha hai... whatsapp company wale videsi hai yeh sab search mein nahin dhoond payenge... @Budhe-Baba

Search mein sirf 3204 number dala hai. Ye number saaf dikh raha hai msg mein. Why is whatsapp not able to search this?

Could be data overload too.
Having multiple chats, chats with many links.
Although if application itself is buggy, little hope than to wait.

(Or to switch to GBwhatsapp or other stable, reliable modified versions.
Been using a few since years, found two at-least which have robust anti-ban and so there are no issues from the end of Facebook/Meta banning the number.)

Budhe-Baba wrote:
Search mein sirf 3204 number dala hai. Ye number saaf dikh raha hai msg mein. Why is whatsapp not able to search this?

Try searching just 32. Search function working here as usual.

It does the prefix search in your local chat messages. PD3 would work in your case.

makeourdeal wrote:

It does the prefix search in your local chat messages. PD3 would work in your case.

@Budhe-Baba You can only do a StartsWith search, not a Contains search... Bole toh starting letters must match... Indexes work only on prefix searches...

Argentina wrote:

Ok, so somehow could check the blurred image you added.
And upon testing, realise that partial keystring search from a longer keystring (that too an alphanumeric one) is not working in whatsapp UNLESS the start of the searched partial keystring and the start of the keystring in the chats
are both a match!
[In the example (check image above), the search for "X×X×X×" from within "mangalamX×X×X×" fails.
Likewise for searching just 'gala' from within "mangalamX×X×X×".

But as soon as one starts searching for m/man/ mang.. the whatsapp search too finds the results.]


And just to rule this out from being a device specific issue, I tested it in the native messaging (SMS) application and it works just fine.

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Thus, this could indeed be an issue with (even modded) whatsapp itself.

BlueFlash wrote:

@Budhe-Baba You can only do a StartsWith search, not a Contains search... Bole toh starting letters must match... Indexes work only on prefix searches...

That makes senses. But what if i need to do contains search?  * method also doesn't work. 

it is same like DESIDIME search... kya search karte h kya result aata h

Novizio wrote:

it is same like DESIDIME search... kya search karte h kya result aata h

Prime video ka bhi

Abhi toh improve bhi hua hai