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Oct 1, 2016 1:16 PM in response to Ride907by 10,000 Angry Vegans,★HelpfulI have the same issue and I've provided feedback to them.
I receive a number of automated messages each day from e.g. monitoring systems and my data carrier, all of which contain snippets of authorisation codes/passwords that I need to copy and paste into a browser.
To illustrate, an example of a carrier message is below:
A Photo/Video message was sent to you but couldn't be delivered. A notification on how to view this message will follow shortly. Your password is: MdhzupF/KyFD
Previously I could select the password within the message and paste it into Safari on the move. Now there's all the HAHA timewasting apparatus in the way I have to either:
- Copy the message in its entirety, go to the Home screen, open Notes, create a new note, tap, paste, highlight and copy the password there and then switch to Safari, or
- Flick between the iMessage and Safari apps while chanting the password out loud, three characters at a time, essentially using myself as a clipboard while resisting the urge to bend the phone in half
As with the removal of the ability to group Notifications by app, this is a cause of worry in the workplace because it introduces behaviour that makes busy office phones much harder to use, not easier.
Please Apple, don't make us ditch you at work! We just need options to switch new behaviours on and off.
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Oct 2, 2016 7:19 AM in response to Ride907by mhubbard58,I agree that this is a major mistake by Apple. I'd rather have the select capability in text messaging than all the new fluff they've added.
I found a kludge workaround that may be a little less hassle than copying the text to Notes. Just select the entire message, select More at the bottom, select Forward. Then you can select and copy the specific text in the forwarded message. Then just cancel the message being forwarded.
Note that this is hopefully just a workaround until Apple fixes this. I hate that the new message capability is complicated, unintuitive, and reduced functionality. They need to wake up!
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Oct 4, 2016 1:36 PM in response to Ride907by insats22,★HelpfulThe same has happened to Messages in MacOS. It's extremely frustrating.
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Oct 5, 2016 12:31 AM in response to mhubbard58by 10,000 Angry Vegans,I found a kludge workaround that may be a little less hassle than copying the text to Notes. Just select the entire message, select More at the bottom, select Forward. Then you can select and copy the specific text in the forwarded message. Then just cancel the message being forwarded.
Thank you. This is my go-to workaround for the moment