Selecting Text in Messages.app
A new “Select” option in the Messages app on iOS 26 lets you select and copy a portion of text within a message bubble in a conversation.
On earlier iOS versions, you can only copy an entire message bubble.
Finally. And how about selecting multiple bubbles at once?
My other pet peeve is that on macOS you can’t start a selection by clicking in the whitespace between the bubbles.
Previously:
