Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Today's relatively large smartphone displays can pack a ton of visuals. Apps typically do their best to fill the screen with as much ...

With Android 15, Google introduced app pairs, or the ability to save two apps together as one icon, and launch them at the same time in split-screen mode. The feature was limited to tablets at first, ...

iPad users once again gain access to classic Split View multitasking in iPadOS 26.2. It’s back to being the best way to use two applications side-by-side on your iPad. Apple nerfed Split View in ...

Multitasking on Android has been around for ages, but it hasn’t changed much in a long time. Whether on a phone, a foldable, or a full-size tablet, Android technically only supports running two apps ...

Traditionally, AI assistants on smartphones have existed in separate interfaces: you open a chat window, ask a question, then switch back to your app of choice once you’ve received an answer. Google’s ...

According to a new report, Google is adopting a new 90:10 screen ratio for split-screen to make multitasking easier on Android phones. Users will be able to quickly swap between the primary and ...

Samsung’s One UI 8 update brings support for a new split screen mode that makes it easy to switch between apps, and it serves as a first preview of what’s coming to Android 16. Split-screen ...

Recent findings from the Android 16 Developer Preview 2 (DP2) show that Google is working on an upgrade to its split-screen multitasking function. This new feature looks very similar to OnePlus' Open ...

Android's split-screen mode is about to become a throuple if the latest code sleuthing turns out to be true. Reading time 2 minutes I wondered why Android Intelligence was polling people on whether or ...