Smaller changes is the name of the game, but they shine in big ways ...

Samsung’s One UI is incredibly feature-rich, and that includes the multitasking view which is full of big improvements on top of Android. One of those options is the ability to run apps in floating ...

Google launches Android 17 stable for Pixel 6 and newer, bringing App Bubbles, enhanced privacy controls, and security ...

Android 17 update: The main feature in this Android 17 update is Bubbles, which turns any app into a small floating window ...

Floating app windows have been around on Android for years now, allowing you to open and use apps while still doing other things on your phone. It joins split-view multitasking as one of the more ...

Apple is allegedly working to make this dream into a reality. Illustration: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac With iPadOS 16 right around the corner, there’s a lot of hope that a rumor of floating app windows for ...

Google introduced “bubbles” as a means of keeping messaging apps easily accessible by letting them float on top of other apps. In future versions of Android, it sounds like Google may make these a lot ...

The odds of floating app windows appearing with iPadOS 16 just went up. Illustration: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac There’s a new reason to think iPadOS 16 might include support for resizable floating app ...

There are a ton of floating window apps out there, which you can call upon by swiping from one side of the screen. Not all of them work well, though, and very few are as useful as the 1Edge app. 1Edge ...

Microsoft is rolling out an Office update in the last week of May 2026 that lets users move the floating Copilot button out of their documents and back to the ribbon.