![]() If you see some foreign language in Safari or Facebook, you can hold down and move your mouse over the text to select it, and then right-click your mouse and choose Translate. The divider line has a small white line that your mouse can use to adjust the sizes of both screens. Now for the app on the right side, just click your mouse anywhere on it, and it instantly resizes and moves to the right. Click on “Tile windows to the left of the screen” - it instantly moves to the left side. Hold down on the green button on the top lefthand corner. Once both are on the desktop, you can split screen starting with the app on the left. It gives me the option to have two programs equally split at the same time on my screen. Split screen is something I use every day on my iMac. Can you believe it? Every app you bought now works on your laptop. Go ahead and open up any iPhone app that appears on your MacBook Pro screen. ![]() WOW! Your iPhone screen now appears on the laptop screen. A list appears, and if you see your laptop listed, click on it. Click on the two rectangles, and it opens up Screen Mirroring. On the iPhone, swipe down from the right top corner. Click on the little thumbnail to enter into Split View for those two applications or windowsĪs usual, you can swipe left or right to return to the desktop, or hit the Escape key to exit Full Screen / Split View mode.Ready to get blown away? I have a MacBook Pro, so first I turn on my iPhone and then my MacBook Pro.Now drag and drop another app or window into the same screen thumbnail, this will cause those two apps to enter Split View together.Enter Mission Control as usual, then drag any app or window to the very top of the screen and drop it there, this will send it into full screen mode in that screen.You can also enter Split View from Mission Control by dragging apps and windows around, this is slightly trickier compared to the long-click green button method outlined above, but if you’re a big fan of working from Mission Control you’ll appreciate this: Using Split View Full Screen Mode from Mission Control on the Mac You can also swipe to the side with a multi-touch trackpad or multitouch mouse to return to the desktop from split view, and then swipe back to return to the aforementioned Split View. Either will leave Split View in Full Screen mode, returning you to your regular Mac desktop experience. You can escape Split View just as you would exit full screen mode in general, either by clicking on any of the split viewed windows green button again, or by hitting the Escape key. The video below demonstrates this feature in Mac OS X with a Safari browser window on your favorite website (), and the Dictionary app: Just do a long press on the green button in a Mac window title bar and you’ll see for yourself how it works. That’s all there is to it, that probably sounds more complicated than it is though, so I’d highly recommend trying it out yourself as there’s basically nothing that can go wrong by testing it. Once you select the other window to full screen, they’ll be side by side one another in Split View: As soon as you place the first window into the Split View panel, the other side of the screen turns into a mini-Expose much like Mission Control, simply click the window tile you want to open into Split View for the other side here to immediately send it side by side into Split Full Screen Mode.When the window shrinks slightly and the background becomes highlighted, you’re about to enter Split View, while continuing to hold the green button drag the active window into either the left or right panel to place it full screen there.Click and hold on the green maximize button of an active window (for example, a Safari window).Here’s how it works, we’ll use Safari and the Dictionary app as examples to split side by side in full screen Split View: Probably the easiest way to initially enter Split View is through a long click on any windows green maximize button. Let’s get to it: Entering Split View with Any Window from Anywhere in Mac OS X ![]() As we mentioned there are two different ways to enter into screen splitting mode on Mac apps, we’ll cover both of them. How to Use Screen Splitting on Mac OSĪlmost all modern Mac OS apps support screen splitting, if they can go full screen then they can also split screen with another app. ![]() Of course you’ll need a modern version of Mac OS to have this feature, anything newer than MacOS X 10.11 (or later) will have access to this screen splitting feature on the Mac. We’ll cover two ways to enter into Split Screen mode, or Split View, on the Mac. This is a great feature for anyone who wants to focus, but researchers, writers, students, and developers will likely find this to be the most useful. ![]()
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