Floating app windows have been around on Android for years now, allowing you to open and use apps while still doing other things on your phone. It joins split-view multitasking as one of the more ...

Apple is allegedly working to make this dream into a reality. Illustration: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac With iPadOS 16 right around the corner, there’s a lot of hope that a rumor of floating app windows for ...

Android has a number of features that allow you to multitask effectively, such as split-screen multitasking and picture-in-picture (PiP) modes for videos. But there’s another nifty feature on the ...

The odds of floating app windows appearing with iPadOS 16 just went up. Illustration: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac There’s a new reason to think iPadOS 16 might include support for resizable floating app ...

Drag and swipe to return to full screen—or stop it from coming back Drag the divider to the left or right to easily get out of split screen. Hide floating apps by converting them to split screen and ...

There are a ton of floating window apps out there, which you can call upon by swiping from one side of the screen. Not all of them work well, though, and very few are as useful as the 1Edge app. 1Edge ...

Google is working on the latest set of Material 3 components, including a Floating App Bar and FAB menu. Keep in mind that Google has yet to announce these components, so they’re still a ...

Time for a brutal truth any productivity connoisseur can confirm: At a certain point, once you’ve seen one note-taking app, you’ve kinda seen ’em all. But at the end of the day, all of those apps ...

Facebook introduced the concept of floating circles for its Messenger app on Android and it was one of the earliest divisive features of the social network. That UI has persisted and has, in fact, ...

A new leak claims that iPadOS apps may become Quick Note-like floating windows, instead of always opening full screen - if a keyboard and trackpad are connected. Apple is developing a smart system for ...