The trick on your Samsung mobile to open two applications at the same time with a simple touch

One of the biggest advantages of Android for different mobile manufacturers has been the ability to create interfaces which not only change the aesthetics of the icons or the interface itself, but also include new functions. In Europe, two of the best known are Hyper OS (formerly MIUI) from Xiaomi and A user interface from Samsung. The reason is simple, these are the two most used mobile brands.

There are also much more aggressive developments like that of Huawei, which with Harmony operating system went from a layer above Android to create a system that will be incompatible with Google’s system applications. However, this is something much riskier and was only done due to the impossibility of using Android and the services of the American company.

In Samsung’s strategy, One UI is a key element. So much so that it begins to update your TVs with Tizen to also include the interface of your mobile phones and tabletsto unify not only the aesthetics but also its functions. One of the most useful for people who use multiple apps at the same time is something called App Group.

What this function allows is open two apps in split screen at the same timeskipping the steps of opening one, enabling split screen, then opening the other, then resizing… and repeating every time we want to have that pair of apps on the screen simultaneously. To do this, you just need to open an app and switch to multitasking.

Once there (by pressing the corresponding lower menu button or swiping up from the bottom and keeping your finger on the screen), we will have to click on the application icon that we opened. From here we select the option Open in split screen mode.

When the second window opens at the bottom, we select the second application. And then we can move the division if we don’t want it right in the center, to make one window bigger than the other. SO Click on the division bar, in its central part, and select the star icon. We will then be asked if we want add this application group to the desktop and we say yes. At that time an icon will appear on the desktop with the two icons of the applications we have configured and their name. A single click there will always open both of these apps.