Talk search: mobile finds messages, web/desktop do not — expected?

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Can someone clarify how search in Nextcloud Talk is supposed to work?

I’m on NC 32.0.2 with Talk 22.0.4.

What I see:

In the web and desktop versions, the search field in the left sidebar does not find messages — only rooms/users.

But in the mobile app, the same search does find messages by their text.

Searching inside a conversation (right sidebar → search) works fine everywhere.

So I’m confused:
Is the sidebar search in Talk supposed to search message text at all?
And should global unified search (top-right search in NC) show Talk messages?
Or is mobile using a different search mechanism?

The documentation mentions “global unified search” + “search within a conversation”, but behavior is different across clients.

I want to understand - is something not configured on my part or is it supposed to be this way?
Thanks!

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This does not work at the moment, the left sidebar is not able to search messages. Unified search is the search on the very top right corner (next to the avatar). Other than that (as you already mentioned) there’s the search within a conversation in the right sidebar.
But generally it is planned to make the search behavior consistent across the clients.

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Thank you, this confirmed my suspicions. I started checking and rebuilding the search indexes in Nextcloud, but everything looked fine there — so now it makes sense why nothing changed.