{"id":223613,"date":"2026-03-14T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/the-superiority-of-split-screen-apps-is-why-i-abandoned-iphone-and-am-all-in-on-android\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T18:40:09","slug":"the-superiority-of-split-screen-apps-is-why-i-abandoned-iphone-and-am-all-in-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/the-superiority-of-split-screen-apps-is-why-i-abandoned-iphone-and-am-all-in-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"The superiority of split-screen apps is why I abandoned iPhone and am all-in on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/split-screen-apps-on-android-why-abandoned-iphone\/\">The superiority of split-screen apps is why I abandoned iPhone and am all-in on Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/split-screen-apps-on-android-why-abandoned-iphone\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/split-screen-apps-on-android-why-abandoned-iphone\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-14 12:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the nature of my job, I&#8217;ve bounced between Apple and Android phones for years.<\/p>\n<p>For a while, I was walking around with both, and for the most part, either side of the fence was just fine. It was more a matter of preference than clear superiority.<\/p>\n<p>For a brief while, in the shuffle, I daily-drove an iPhone exclusively. This was also just fine.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer Android, but there was nothing in particular holding me back on iOS. Except, the lack of any form of split view or split screen function ground my gears on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI&#8217;m tired of pretending this isn&#8217;t why you&#8217;d switch to Android<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">It&#8217;s definitely the last straw<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"android-39-s-had-the-splits-since-nougat\">\n                        Android&#8217;s had the splits since Nougat<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"yes-as-far-back-as-android-7\">\n            Yes, as far back as Android 7!<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>While older Android phones offered you the ability to run two apps side-by-side as far back as Android 2.2, a native split-screen function only arrived in 2016 (as reported by the BBC).<\/p>\n<p>This happened at a time when smartphones had smaller, lower-resolution screens and were far less powerful. Yet it was instantly, genuinely useful.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/split-screen-apps-on-android-why-abandoned-iphone\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The superiority of split-screen apps is why I abandoned iPhone and am all-in on Android&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/an-iphone-and-a-google-pixel-phone-with-the-android-mascot-moving-directly-toward-the-pixel.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223615,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223613\/revisions\/223615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}