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multitasking well it's something that we all need from our smart phones especially when we're doing things like say work and play at the same time or if we just let's say work a lot it's a feature that everyone wants and in a particular phone like the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 we have all the screen real estate to take advantage of multitasking and that's exactly what Samsung did in this new version of the note line so it's Josh from guard from Andhra Authority what's going on everybody and it's time to take a look at the multitasking of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and here we are with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 we're taking a look at multitasking and I just held the back button to show you the list of applications that can be used with the multi window multi window should be pretty familiar for all of you veterans of the note line and the list is getting better and better and larger so you'll be able to use any of your applications most of them at least in order to make multi window and I just put the YouTube application on the bottom and Chrome on the top which is very familiar again to a lot of you who have used multi window before so in this case I'll be able to use YouTube to watch some media while browsing the Internet in this case I'll go to Android authority calm very simple and very familiar as I keep saying for anyone who's used a note before but now there's even an easier way to get to multi window and that's from the recent apps screen as you can see here the recent apps screen already looks a lot better they've made it cards that are easy to flip through and to swipe away it's a very attractive looking recent apps screen and for a lot of people who multitask it probably will be one of the main ways that you're going to use multitasking but there's a new icon on the top right of each of the cards on it is the multi window shortcut that is available now for any applications that can be used with multi window you can hit that icon and you'll see the most recent applications that were used with the one that you've selected but if you swipe over to the right you'll see all of the other applications that are available so you'll be able to create two windows that you'll use at the same time in a very easy way for anyone that uses multi window this is a wonderful new way of doing so and it's an easy way to get straight to the ones that you might use most frequently as you can see here once again Chrome and YouTube when using multi window you still have the options by pressing the little button on the middle that will allow you to switch the knows to move content from one to the other to collapse the selected window to expand it to be the only one that's being used and of course to close the application now the option that I mentioned collapsing a window allows it to become a floating head as you can see there that I did with the YouTube and you can drag it around and it is available for you to use on the side by tapping on it doing so will allow you to get a floating window which is another way of multitasking on here that's available for all the applications in the same list that you can do multi window for tap the button on the top and you'll see that you can still move content from one to the other collapse it to another floating head or expand it and finally if you were to drag the floating window down to the bottom you would see a selector come up that is basically showing you that you can create that window to be a part of a dual window multi window application and now here we're back to the status quo for me the YouTube and Chrome combination for an even easier way to create the floating window just hold the back button and you'll be able to see the list of applications and just tap any of them rather than dragging on to the multi window grid in order to create the floating window you can have multiple ones open at the same time and from there you can always create little floating heads from each of the applications that you have already floating as windows that way they'll be easy to put aside for you to use later it's a really easy way of creating just a sort of slew of different applications that you might be using all at once but you don't want all of them cluttering up your screen at the same time and then dragging the icons down to the bottom or the top of the screen will allow it to become part of that multi window combination the final way of activating some multitasking on the note 4 is by having a full application already set up but then dragging from one of the top corners down to create the size of what will become a floating window this is yet another way that you can create a floating window aside from just hitting the back button and then tapping on the application or by doing so from the multi window combination already set up but from here you can go back to any of those other ways of multitasking by hitting the icon on the top dragging it down or by creating the floating icon these are all ways that you can go in and out of each version of multitasking on the Galaxy Note 4 which makes it a seamless multitasking experience if you weren't already a big fan of the multitasking or the multi window in particular of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 or the no 2 before then things like even the floating window or probably things you didn't really use much before you probably use the recent apps screen and whatnot and really if you're stuck in your ways then I can understand if you don't really use or want to use this particular feature but what is great about the multitasking in the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is the fact that it's now a lot easier to access the multi window and you can do it in a lot of different ways you can have an application and then quickly make it a small application that floats on top of everything else and then make it a small a floating head that will be able to be accessed whenever you need it and then from there from the Unison apps screen you can even turn on the multi window just by hitting that small icon and be able to open the ones that you've used in the past like say for me usually I do YouTube and chrome like I showed you in the example here in this video there list when it comes to the multi window is starting to get longer and longer and yes you will only be able to do these particular abilities with the applications that are on this list but that's actually ok because like I showed you earlier the list is actually quite long a lot of key applications like even Facebook or even the camera or the calendar all the way down to Chrome and YouTube are used in this particular ability and with that already being the case I'm sure that there are a lot of applications out there that you use that you can take advantage of in these particular ways so make sure you keep it tuned to Android Authority for all the best coverage including the coverage of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in my full review and any videos that come after that 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