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customized in a partnership between Microsoft and
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old Live Tiles.
The standard home screen spans both displays. Swipe
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defaults to the screen it was opened on. Tap a link in a
message or document, and it opens on the other screen.
The two screens then operate somewhat independently.
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pause when you touch the other screen.
By pulling up and across from the bottom of the screen,
you can get an app to span both screens. This works
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side, and on the other, a page you’re working on. It also
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of the gap between the screens, it doesn’t work well with
web pages or maps, a big minus compared with the
Galaxy Z Fold 2. Dragging and dropping content
between the two screens, by and large, doesn’t work,
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The default keyboard is Microsoft’s Swiftkey, which
tries to crowd to one side of the screen or the other so
that your thumb can reach the full keyboard. It works,
but I found it to make more errors than I’m used to with
Gboard. Unfortunately, if you load any other keyboard,
it won’t work properly in the laptop-like mode—the
space bar goes below the bezel of the screen.
If you’re using
an app that
pauses when it
loses focus
(like Netflix),
that app will
pause when
you touch the
other screen.