Google Messages’ handy new long-press menu is finally rolling out widely

Message actions and selective copying are reaching more stable users. Google Messages’ handy new long-press menu is finally rolling out widely. Mobile Google Messages’ handy new long-press menu is finally rolling out widely Message actions and selective copying are reaching more stable users.

The floating menu puts common message actions closer to your thumb and supports selective text copying. The features were previously made available to beta users in August, but the stable rollout still appears to be server-side. Long-pressing a message should be one of those tiny interactions you never have to think about.

In Google Messages, though, it has long meant reaching toward the top of the screen for basic actions — hardly ideal when phones keep getting bigger. Google began cleaning that up months ago when it widened access to its redesigned menu in beta in August, and now the upgrade finally appears to be making the jump to stable users. Reddit user Lazy_Excitement_2602 spotted the new menu on the stable version of Google Messages, specifically version 20260903_04.