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SwiftUI: use native text selection in thread messages #6089

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Problem

Long-pressing message text in the native SwiftUI thread view opens a custom whole-message context menu and highlights the full message surface. Choosing Select text only toggles a hidden selection mode; a second long press still opens the same custom menu instead of immediately presenting native word selection and draggable handles.

Expected

Message text should use normal SwiftUI text selection: long-press the text, select a word or range, and adjust it with native selection handles. Whole-message copy should remain available through the native selection menu and VoiceOver action.

Reproduction

Reproduced on upstream/t3code/rebuild-mobile-app-swift at f98cab553 with a one-paragraph user message in the iOS Simulator.

Workflow

Implementation is being prepared on saphid/swiftui-text-selection; physical-device validation will be performed against personal/swiftui-approved before upstream merge preparation.

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