Now let's say I want to go back and forth between these two very easily by splitting the view. So let's say let's go to Discussions at. So in Safari I'm saying File, New Window, creating a new window. Instead I'm going to create a new Safari window. I'm going to Quit Mail, just to get it out of the way. Now I've got both of these out of that mode. Go back over here where I can see that Safari has taken over the entire screen on my second desktop. So I'm going to go ahead and click the green arrow here to get Mail out of the split view. Say I wanted this to be Safari on left and another Safari window on the right. So, for instance, it's very common to want to actually look at two web pages at once. There's my original desktop where these both were on and here's the second desktop which is a split view between Mail on the left and Wikipedia, or the Safari browser, on the right. I can use Control left and right arrows to go back and forth. In this case it was only Safari here so I'll click on that and now I've got split view here in Mission Control. Then it shows me all the other windows that are open and I get to select which one takes over the right half. So I'll say this will take over the left half. But if I press and hold instead then I get to choose what half of the screen I want this to take over. create an entire desktop in Mission Control, I would just press the green button here. If I want this to take over the entire screen.

Video Transcript: So split view has been around for more than a year now and hopefully maybe you've tried it out and maybe even used it to have an app take up one half of the screen while another app takes up another half of the screen.įor instance, here I've got Mail and Safari. Check out Use Split View With Two Safari Windows at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

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