Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR Google Messages is finally working on letting you select and copy a part of a message instead of the whole thing.
Users have been asking for this small but convenient feature for a long time.
We got the feature working on a beta version of Google Messages, indicating a wider rollout should follow soon.
Google Messages is constantly evolving and adding new features, but some long-standing pain points have somehow survived all that progress.
One of the most frustrating issues Messages has had since the very beginning is the inability to copy just part of a message. Well, we now have proof that Google is finally fixing this problem.
While looking through Google Messages version messages.android_20260212_01_RC00.phone.openbeta_dynamic, we spotted a small but meaningful tweak that allows users to select and copy specific portions of an SMS or RCS message, a feature users have been wanting for years.
Right now, long-pressing a message in Google Messages only gives you a Copy option that ends up copying the entire message. That’s fine for short texts, but it becomes very annoying when you’re dealing with long messages containing things like addresses, OTPs, links, and such.
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