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    Default Copy SMS text Android 9 Pie

    With Android 9 Pie you are are supposed to be able highlight text and copy - then paste into another app. While clunky it does work.

    However - I friend sent me a SMS in Cantonese so I went to highlight and copy as above and paste into google to translate.

    Well I can highlight it and share but I cannot copy with the intention of pasting it into google.

    So anyone know how to copy and paste SMS text using Android 9 Pie?

    Thanks

    garry



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    Hi Gary

    Try Highlight the SMS text then send to clip board then open the app you want to use then paste it.

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    Dave - thanks worked perfectly - is a sharing process rather than copy and paste. I wonder why Google didn't use the standard android means of copying for information in SMS - ie highlight until the the little blue balls comes up bracketing the required text, copy and then paste in the new app.

    Anyway - works great - thanks

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    No probs.
    After the version 9 update some of the apps I have no longer work correctly as well I now have to close and reopen them to get them working each time.
    It was ok before but the software engineers had to fu*K it up to keep them selves in a job and now it becomes the app writer's problem to fix all the apps that don't work.
    I am surprised that my Bluetooth is still working after the update as normally that's the 1st thing that gets stuffed.

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    Soon after I put the original post up I did share the chinese word via bluetooth with my laptop (so my bluetooth worked) and was able to translate there via google - the translated word was simply "thankyou".

    And thanks to you for your help as I can now do the translation on my phone.

    Cheers

    Garry

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