Google Messages is quietly addressing one of its most requested features

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Credit: 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.

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