On: It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages an...

[Arcuru]

In the article they say that they have a screenshot of their first several messages and have tried to search for the text in the screenshot.

[just-ok → Arcuru]

Hm, yet I have no problem searching phrases that go back at least five years.. I would say the burden of proof is on the author here to extract the database from the phone and prove that the messages didn’t get deleted, lost in an upgrade, or otherwise cleaned up.