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title: "iOS 27.2 RC finally lets you select text in Siri AI answers"
description: "In the iOS 27.2 release candidate you can select part of a Siri answer and copy, translate or share it. Before, it was the whole answer or a PDF."
url: https://mactoreality.com/ios-27-2-rc-select-text-siri-ai-answers
published: 2026-10-20T11:06:13Z
updated: 2026-10-20T11:06:13Z
author: "Martin"
category: News
publisher: Mac to Reality
apple_heat_impact: 1
---

# iOS 27.2 RC finally lets you select text in Siri AI answers

*In the iOS 27.2 release candidate you can select part of a Siri answer and copy, translate or share it. Before, it was the whole answer or a PDF.*

The iOS 27.2 release candidate (24B115) lets you select part of a Siri AI answer in the Siri app, Mac to Reality has found in its own testing. Press and hold on an answer, drag the handles over a sentence or a bullet point, and you get the standard Copy, Translate, Speak and Share options.

Until now, Siri answers were all or nothing. You could swipe an answer to copy it in full, or share it, which turned the response into a PDF. There was no way to pick out just the line you needed, such as a price or an address, without pasting the whole answer somewhere else and trimming it.

Apple doesn’t mention the change in its iOS 27.2 release notes, and we haven’t found it reported anywhere else.

### Background

- The Siri app arrived with iOS 27. In the first developer beta in June, testers on r/iOSBeta noted that sharing from the Siri app produced a PDF, and that answers could be copied, muted or shared by swiping.
- Apple seeded the iOS 27.2 release candidate to developers on 19 October. Our iOS 27.2 guide covers what else is new and when to expect it.

## Why it matters

Copying a single fact out of an AI answer is one of the most common things people do with a chatbot. Being forced to take the whole answer, or a PDF, made Siri AI clumsier than rivals for everyday use. Proper text selection is a small fix, but it removes a daily irritation.

As the release candidate is normally the build Apple ships, the change should reach everyone with a Siri AI-capable device when iOS 27.2 is released, expected in the coming days.