Split view
Show up to four pages side by side in one window with split view, rearrange and resize the panes, and turn a split back into separate tabs.
Split view shows up to four tabs side by side in one window: a document beside its source, a call beside your notes. This page shows how to open one, arrange it and take it apart.
Open two pages side by side
Show the first page
Select the tab you want to keep on screen.
Add the second one
Right-click another tab in the sidebar and choose Open in Split View. It opens to the right of the current tab.
Or start from a blank pane
Choose Tab > New Split View. A new tab opens beside the current one with the command bar over it, ready for an address.
Other ways to make or grow a split:
- Drag a tab from the sidebar onto the page. Drop it near an edge of a pane to open it there: Open on the left, Open on the right, Open above or Open below.
- Drag a tab onto another tab in the sidebar. The row shows Split view; drop to put the two side by side.
- From the command bar, select a tab or a page and press ⌥↩.
- From a Peek, click Open in Split.
- Drag a link from another app to the left or right edge of a pane.
- With a terminal: File > New Terminal Beside (⌘D) and New Terminal Below (⇧⌘D) cut the current pane with a new terminal. See Terminal.
Each new pane takes half of the pane it lands on. In the sidebar, the split shows as one row holding its tabs.
Work in a split
- Focus a pane by clicking in it. A thin outline marks the focused pane, and the keyboard, the address and the page menus act on it.
- Resize by dragging the gap between two panes. A pane keeps at least 200 points along the side you drag.
- Turn the split by right-clicking its row in the sidebar and choosing Arrange Top and Bottom or Arrange Side by Side. This turns the cut that divides the whole split.
- Swap or replace a pane: when the split is full, dragging a tab over a pane offers Replace. The tab takes that pane, and the tab it replaces goes back to the list. Two panes of the same split trade places this way.
- Undo a change to the split with Edit > Undo (⌘Z): panes that joined go back to the list, panes that left come back, and the arrangement returns to what it was.
Close a pane or end the split
- Close one pane by closing its tab (⌘W while it is focused). The pane next to it takes its place. When one pane is left, the split ends.
- End the split with Tab > Separate Split View, or right-click the split’s row or one of its tabs and choose Separate Split View. The tabs stay in the sidebar as separate tabs.
Limits
- A split holds four panes at most. When it is full, New Split View is unavailable and a dropped tab can only replace a pane.
- Splits do not nest, and a tab joining a split leaves the folder it was in.
- A favorite keeps its place among the tiles: when you split one, Lilo opens its page in a new tab for the pane.
- New Split View and Separate Split View have no default shortcut. Give them one in Settings > General > Keyboard shortcuts, or pick the Arc preset there, which binds them to ⌃⇧= and ⌃⇧-. See Customize Lilo.
- Chrome extensions that know Chrome’s split view do not recognize Lilo’s: the tabs of a split carry no split view id. See Extension compatibility.