Desktop app: partial text selection copies entire message instead of highlighted portion

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Apr 27, 2026 by danpillay87 Closed May 29, 2026

Environment

  • App: Claude Code Desktop
  • OS: Windows 11 Pro

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open any conversation in Claude Code Desktop
  2. Click and drag to highlight a partial sentence within an assistant message
  3. Press Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+Shift+C)

Expected

Only the highlighted text is copied to the clipboard.

Actual

The entire message block is copied, regardless of what's highlighted.

Things I tried

  • Ctrl+C — copies the whole message
  • Ctrl+Shift+C — same behaviour
  • Shift+drag selection — same behaviour

Impact

Forces switching to claude.ai/code in a browser whenever I need to quote a fragment of a Claude response in another tool. Selection works normally in the web version, so this is specific to the desktop app.

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