Floating windows on Samsung devices have been both praised and criticized by users. One UI 6.1 introduces a small but welcome change that allows users to easily restore all minimized windows at once.

Mobile floating windows are making something of a comeback. Android O is bringing picture in picture to the forefront once more. But is that for the best?

These floating windows range from browsers that load pages in the background, to buttons that popup to call your attention, to lyrics that display your currently playing song.

In a similar vein, it seems that Android N lay the foundations of another most wanted Android feature as far as multi-tasking is concerned: free-form, floating windows.

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 ...

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Freeform window mode is just what we imagined. It's a dead ringer for Remix OS —multiple Android apps floating around inside windows—and it might be the beginnings of a desktop operating system.