Google Messages is rolling out a repair for its most annoying oversight

On condition that Google Messages is the default messaging app on many Android flagships lately, some enhancements couldn’t arrive sooner. Customers have lengthy complained a couple of easy oversight in Google Messages: the flexibility to repeat part of the message, and Google has taken its personal candy time to handle this limitation. We lastly noticed the corporate engaged on a repair final month, and now the flexibility to repeat part of the message is starting to roll out to some customers within the beta department.

With Google Messages v20260306 beta, we’re now capable of copy a particular a part of a textual content message on one in all our units (OnePlus 13R).

That is very possible a staged rollout, as we are able to’t see the identical potential on a few of our different telephones, despite the fact that we’re on the identical Messages app model.

Google Messages provides the flexibility to long-press a message, however annoyingly, it solely reveals a “Copy” choice that copies your entire message. That is good for brief texts, however it isn’t very handy for longer texts that include just some helpful knowledge, reminiscent of OTPs, hyperlinks, and addresses. Most customers find yourself copying the entire message right into a notes app, one other textual content editor, or a textual content area, then choose the related half to repeat once more.

With the change that’s now rolling out within the beta department, customers will now have the ability to long-press a message after which drag to pick a particular portion of the textual content to repeat it. If you wish to copy the complete message, you’ll be able to nonetheless faucet on the “Copy” button to take action.

Have you ever obtained the flexibility to repeat textual content selectively on Google Messages beta? Tell us within the feedback beneath!