Important: The touch-and-hold feature works on all message types, not just RCS chats. This includes text, images, videos, links, files, locations and contact cards.
Touch and hold on any message to quickly access common actions and features. With this feature, you can:
- React with emoji.
- Edit messages.
- Copy specific message parts.
Touch and hold to interact with messages
When you touch and hold a message, a row of emoji reactions and a menu of options will appear for quick interaction.
- Open Google Messages
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- Open a conversation
- Find the message that you want to interact with.
- Touch and hold the message.
- At the top of the message bubble, a row of emoji reactions will appear.
- Select the reaction that you want to use.
- At the bottom, a menu will appear with these options:
- Edit: Make changes to your sent message.
- This option is only visible in the menu within 15 minutes of you sending the message.
- Reply: Send a direct response to a specific message.
- Forward: Share the selected message with other contacts or groups.
- Copy: Duplicate the entire message to your clipboard.
- You can also select and copy specific parts of a message, like a phone number or a one-time password.
- Star: Mark the message as important to find it later.
- Delete: Remove the message from your conversation history.
- Delete for everyone: Remove the message for everyone.
- Delete for me: Remove the message for yourself.
- Delete deleted message: Permanently remove a deleted message.
- Select more: Choose multiple messages for actions, like to delete or forward them.
- Info: Get message details, such as sender and time sent.
- Edit: Make changes to your sent message.
- At the top of the message bubble, a row of emoji reactions will appear.
.Tip: The touch-and-hold feature works in both light and dark modes.