PSA: double tap the square button to return to last app used

[SupraLB]

What a handy little feature I had no idea. Helps with multi tasking. Saw on reddit earlier.

Enjoy!

 

[LeoRex]

Google added that shortcut key combination into Android 7.0 core.

 

[omgitselaine]

I never knew this but thank you !!! How convenient ....... I'll be using this often !!!

 

[pinkvikchick]

I had no idea. Thanks!!!

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Yeah it's a feature I found a couple of days ago.. Nice little Nougat addition.

 

[SupraLB]

Much more useful than split screen to me. I just dont know when I would ever use the split screen. The screens become too small to navigate, and its a pain to move into the split anyways. Probably more useful on my tablet.

 

[bluesboy77]

Cool, thanks I'll be using this a lot.

 

[Mooncatt]

I'm on the fence with it. I agree with everything you guys have said, so I'll just jump to my issue with it. I'm use to it going back to the app I'm on. It was handy to quickly glance at another app (like if I'm needing to copy something down but the app is preventing copy/paste selections), then tap again to go back to what I was doing. So there's that habit to break. Now the other issue is when I tap it the first time, it drops the current app all the way down so it's barely showing on the screen. So I'm also now having to try and adjust where I'm tapping to get back to what I'm doing.

Minor annoyances I know, but old habits and muscle memory are hard to break.

 

[Axi6Ne8us]

Didn't know that. Thanks dude!

 

[gcliff23]

Much more useful than split screen to me. I just dont know when I would ever use the split screen. The screens become too small to navigate, and its a pain to move into the split anyways. Probably more useful on my tablet.

On my note 4 I would use split screen when driving. I had an iRing on the back of the phone case and a mount on top of the dash board. I mounted my phone sideways, looking kinda like a poor man's heads up display. The point of my reply is that used split screen with Google maps navigation and a music player. It worked perfectly. I didn't realize that split screen was a Samsung feature at the time and I'm really missing it on my G5.