Google just announced a small but important user experience change to its Accelerated Mobile Pages platform, or AMP. The company explained in a blog post today that it will start allowing users to copy or share an AMP article’s source link instead of the Google-specific URL. Until now, the service, which offers up more simplified and less data-intensive versions of publishers’ articles, had basically made this impossible.

“Many users have requested a way to access, copy, and share the canonical URL of a document,” writes Alex Fischer, a Google software engineer. The company is granting that request starting today on iOS (in both Chrome and the Google app) in the form of a small link icon at the top of each AMP article. Users just have to…

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