Feature request: selective text copy within messages (mobile app + desktop), not only whole-message copy
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 7, 2026 by zhanguo711022
Feature request
In Claude Code sessions (both the desktop app and Code sessions in the Claude mobile app), the copy affordance copies the entire message. There is no way to select and copy just a portion of an assistant reply — e.g. a single command, a path, or one paragraph out of a long answer.
On mobile this is especially painful: long-press text selection inside a message is not available (or very limited), so grabbing one line from a long reply means copying everything and manually trimming it elsewhere.
Desired behavior
- Allow normal text selection inside rendered messages (drag to select on desktop, long-press on mobile), or
- Provide finer-grained copy targets: per-paragraph / per-code-block / per-inline-code copy buttons.
Context
- Claude mobile app (iOS) — Code session view
- Claude Code desktop app (macOS)
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