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12-23-2025, 05:10 PM
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(https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/android-16-app-pairs-3.jpg)With Android 15 (https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-features-3401939/), Google introduced app pairs, or the ability to save two apps together as one icon, and launch them at the same time in split-screen mode. The feature was limited to tablets at first, but it soon expanded to the Pixel 9 Pro Fold (https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-app-pairs-3477326/) and other phones.
Initially, I thought I would use this all the time, but I soon realized that the issue was with the multi-window mode itself, and how it displayed a tiny part of both apps and made using either of them clunkier. So I forgot about app pairs for a while, until Android 16 came along, and with it, a significant improvement to multi-window and split-screen multitasking on Android.
More... (https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-love-split-screen-app-pairs-3626384/)
(https://www.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/android-16-app-pairs-3.jpg)With Android 15 (https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-features-3401939/), Google introduced app pairs, or the ability to save two apps together as one icon, and launch them at the same time in split-screen mode. The feature was limited to tablets at first, but it soon expanded to the Pixel 9 Pro Fold (https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-app-pairs-3477326/) and other phones.
Initially, I thought I would use this all the time, but I soon realized that the issue was with the multi-window mode itself, and how it displayed a tiny part of both apps and made using either of them clunkier. So I forgot about app pairs for a while, until Android 16 came along, and with it, a significant improvement to multi-window and split-screen multitasking on Android.
More... (https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-love-split-screen-app-pairs-3626384/)