{"id":48626,"date":"2025-07-24T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48626"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:19:41","slug":"selecting-text-in-messages-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/selecting-text-in-messages-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Selecting Text in Messages.app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/21\/five-ios-26-features-you-might-have-missed\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/21\/five-ios-26-features-you-might-have-missed\/\"><p>A new &ldquo;Select&rdquo; option in the Messages app on iOS 26 lets you select and copy a portion of text within a message bubble in a conversation.<\/p><p>On earlier iOS versions, you can only copy an entire message bubble.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally. And how about selecting multiple bubbles at once?<\/p>\n\n<p>My other pet peeve is that on macOS you can&rsquo;t start a selection by clicking in the whitespace between the bubbles.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/10\/ios-26-announced\/\">iOS 26 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/05\/keyboard-control-of-messages-app\/\">Keyboard Control of Messages.app<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/10\/ios-13-cursor-placement-and-text-selection\/\">iOS 13 Cursor Placement and Text Selection<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: A new &ldquo;Select&rdquo; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-24T19:19:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"185e414d-c658-478f-afb7-6f3fae5801ff","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-24T19:19:44Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGF5BTcZYR4-vt28_rlgB_w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2741,30,2742,141],"class_list":["post-48626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-messages"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48627,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48626\/revisions\/48627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}