Create Windows 11 Snap Layouts and Snap Groups for Multitasking

Update: The official Windows 11 is already available since October 5, 2021. 

Windows 11 brings us many new features compared with previous Windows 10 and one of them is called Snap Groups (Snap Layouts). Although you have already been able to do multiple tasks at the same time in Win10 by snapping windows to various places on your monitor, Snap Group moves a step further and makes multitasking more convenient for you.

Snap Groups & Snap Layouts

What are Snap Groups and Snap Layouts? What’s the relationship between them? Actually, Snap Groups are the groups that are saved when you create a layout via the Snap Layouts.

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How to Create a Snap Layout?

Just as mentioned above, a Snap Group is based on a Snap Layout. Thus, before creating Snap Groups, you have to, first of all, create a Snap Layout, which is simple.

1. Launch all the applications you would like to multitask with.
2. Put one of the opened programs to the front of the screen and hover your mouse over the Maximize icon of the app window.
3. Then, a small window will appear showing you 6 ways to tile and snap your current windows. Just select the one you prefer.

• Tile 2 windows side by size at an even length.
• Tile 2 windows side by side with one side bigger.
• Tile 3 windows side by size at an even length.
• Tile 3 windows side by side with the middle side bigger.
• Tile windows side by size at an even length with one side stacked by two identical windows (all 3 windows).
• Tile windows side by size at an even length with both sides stacked by two identical windows (all 4 windows).

How to Create a Snap Group?

After creating the Snap Layout, just click on one of your opened program windows, Windows will automatically suggest ways for you to tile the other windows in to fill the Snap Layout. Then, you can keep working with your multiple windows with a neat layout.

Besides, you can see a preview of the newly created Snap Group in the same layout as what you have created. Just hover your mouse over your taskbar on anyone of the labeled program. By clicking on any program in the Snap Group, you can open all the windows that are in the group. Vice versa, by minimizing any window within the Snap Group, all windows within will be minimized. That is convenient to manage multiple windows; you don’t need to operate on each window one by one.

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Can’t See Snap Groups & Snap Layouts?

Snap Groups & Snap Layouts should be enabled by default in Windows 11. If you really can’t find it, it is probably disabled somehow. Fortunately, you can reenable it in a few clicks.

1. Go to Windows 11 Settings > System > Multitasking.
2. There, make sure the Snap Windows is switched on.
3. Then, click the down arrow next to the switch and make sure all the other options are checked.