Master Split View in macOS

Work with two apps at the same time by slicing your Mac’s screen in two

WHEN YOU’RE WORKING on your Mac, you can find that your desktop becomes cluttered with numerous windows, making it more difficult to focus on the task at hand. Many users will spend time resizing and moving those windows or making an app fill the screen. But there’s thankfully another, more efficient way to manage your workflow: Split View.

As the name suggests, you can have two apps displayed side by side so that you’re not constantly clicking back and forth across scattered windows. Each app automatically fills the screen from top to bottom, removing the Dock and hiding the menu bar to ensure that the important parts are on display. This also saves lots of time — there’s just a single way of adjusting how much you see of each app.

You’re not restricted by the apps you use either. In fact, you can even place two windows of the same app next to each other; for example, you can have two instances of Safari open if you want to refer to two different websites at once.