Surely on more than one occasion you have had to do several areas at once on your Mac. For example, work on a text document while browsing the information you need online. It is possible to do this by minimizing one window and opening another, but the truth is that it is uncomfortable and wastes our time. Did you know that it is possible to have both windows in an orderly manner on the screen of your Mac? We tell you how, through the so-called Split View.
How to put windows in Split View on Mac
It should be noted that not all applications are available for viewing in Split View , that is, split screen. Most of them do have these functions available, but there are others that, due to dimensions or aspect ratio, cannot be displayed in this way. However, we insist that the most useful in the day to day if they have it.
Activating this split screen or Split View is very easy and fast. If your Mac is with macOS Catalina or later operating system, you need to click several seconds on the button to enlarge the top left of the screen, the green. Then you will see how several options appear in which you can place that window on the left or right side of the screen, as well as place it in full screen or play it on the iPad through the Sidecar function . It should be noted that sometimes it is not necessary to carry out the long press, since with placing the mouse pointer on the button for a few seconds the options appear.
If your Mac has a MacOS Mojave version or earlier, the process is practically identical, having to press the enlarge button for several seconds. In this case, what you will have to do is drag the window to the part of the screen where you want to place it, since there are no specific options that automatically place it. Then you must click on another window and place it on the other side of the screen.
Functionalities and how to exit the split screen
You will have noticed that when you encounter the split screen the screen is used completely. That way both the upper toolbar and the lower application dock disappear. Unfortunately, the dock cannot be removed, but the toolbar becomes visible by simply passing the pointer over the top of the screen. If you want to move to other applications or to the desktop through Mission Control you must perform the Multi-Touch gesture with four fingers to the left or right of the trackpad.
When working with both windows, if for example you are working with text in both, you may wonder how to know in which of them the text will be transmitted when you press the keyboard. To make sure which is the active window you must click anywhere in that window. Remember also that you can exchange the windows by dragging any of them side by side. You can also adjust the width of each of these from the vertical line that appears by dividing them in the central part.
In short, this is the most optimal way to work with several windows at the same time without wasting time opening one another. If you did not know this trick, it is possible that from now on you save a lot of time and can work more comfortably with all the information you need in front of your eyes.