(Pocket-lint) – Windows has plenty of different ways to improve your productivity and simple tricks you can use to make life easier. One is split screening so you can keep Windows side-by-side and jump between apps, browsers and more with ease.
There’s more to these tools than you might realise though, including multi-desktop options, Snap Layouts and app groupings too.
So stick with us as we guide you through the various split screen options and how to use them.
How to snap apps in Windows
Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 offer the ability to “snap” applications which is essentially making them stick to one part of the screen and automatically fit a certain size so you can then snap other apps in different positions and create a side-by-side split-screen layout.
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This is remarkably easy to do and really intuitive once you get the hang of it:
- Put your cursor on the top border of the first application you want to snap
- Left click on the border and hold it down
- Drag the app to the side of your screen i.e. towards the edge of the monitor
- You should then see an opaque outline which fills the screen behind the app
- Let go of your mouse button
This action should then have snapped the application to one side of your screen. You can then drag another application to the other side of the screen in the same way and that will snap it to the other side so both apps are side-by-side in a split screen view.
If while doing this you find that the application you’ve dragged has shrunk to a quarter of its normal size, then congratulations you have discovered another way to split-screen. If you want four apps, one in each corner, then follow these steps: