How to split your phone screen – ‘s Blog

Since version 7.0 Nougat of Android, multitasking has been improved, allowing you to have two applications on your screen at the same time. Today we explain how to divide the screen of your phone and take advantage of that multi-window possibility.

The advantages of using this are clear. For example, you can listen to and watch a video of Youtube on one half of the screen, while you navigate with Chrome in the other half.

Or you can split the screen if you have to write something in an app and you need to copy or look at something you searched for in the browser at the same time.

This way, you can be more productive with your mobileso we teach you step by step how to take advantage of this multiple window possibility.

How to split your phone screen if you have Android Nougat 7 or Android Oreo 8

If you have any of those versions of Android, you don’t need to activate anything special. The option to split your phone screen will be there to be used.

Applying it is very simple. Go to the list of applications you have open. This is done by pressing the square button on your phone next to the “Home” button.

Go through the different open applications until you reach the one you want to have on half of the screen. Long press on it.

At that point, you will see a highlighted area at the top, If you drag up, the chosen app will occupy the top part of the screen.

If you hold the phone horizontally, with the screen rotated, it will go to the left.

At the bottom you will continue to see the rest of the recent applications. Now choose another one by clicking on it normally and it will occupy the bottom part of the screen (or the right, if you are horizontal).

You can now manage these two applications at the same time, independently, by tapping on each half of the screen.

That is the simple process if you have Android pure. Samsung and other brands, such as Xiaomithey do it a little differently.

It’s important to put attention on Not all apps support split screen. If you follow this procedure with one and it doesn’t seem to work, the app is probably not suitable for split screen.

There is a way to force it to be this way by unlocking your phone’s developer options, but we don’t particularly recommend it.

How to exit split screen mode

Very easy. If you look at the image we have posted above, you will see a line that separates the two applications that you are managing at the same time.

If you drag it up or down, you will see that you can expand the area dedicated to one of the apps.

Well then, if you drag the line all the way downthe top app will occupy the front and you will have exited split screen mode.

How to split your phone screen if you have a version older than Android Nougat 7

The short answer is that you can not split screen. You will have to update your system Android to version 7 at least.

However, you could still have a kind of multi-window that would allow you to see more than one app at a time on your screen.

Some applications allow you to do this and, instead of splitting the screen, the applications appear at the same time in a floating way. That way you can drag and place several of them on your screen at the same time.

The operation may not be perfect. If you have to resort to this option to have the multiple window because you Android is older, we recommend the application Overlayswhich you can download for free.

How to split the screen of your iPhone phone

What if you have a phone Manzana? The operating system iOS allows multitasking since version 9, but only for iPads.

Split screen mode is not supported on iPhonebut there are some apps in the store that can allow you to have something like that.

some like Split Screen They are paid and the truth is that they do not always work well. You can see it if you really need it. If what you want is to browse two web pages at the same time, it lets you do it for free.

Now you know how to split your phone screen Android to manage two applications at the same time, but remember that you will have to have the version Nougat 7.0 of the operating system (or a more modern one) to do it.