Clips + Safari Split View on iPad: The Complete Guide

You can use Clips and Safari in Split View on iPad by opening Safari, swiping up from the dock to grab Clips, and dragging it to the left or right edge of the screen until the display snaps into a side-by-side layout.

Once you try this combination a few times, it becomes obvious why these two apps belong together. Safari is where you find the raw material — a funny moment in a YouTube video, a how-to clip someone shared, a product demo — and Clips is where you shape it into something worth sharing. Switching between apps breaks that creative rhythm. Keeping them side by side means you stay in one mental space from start to finish.

Real workflows that benefit from this pair

• Reaction and commentary videos. Browse a news story or viral clip in Safari, then immediately record your reaction in Clips while the source content is still visible on the other half of the screen. No more pausing, app-switching, and losing your train of thought.
• Tutorial screen capture. Follow a step-by-step guide in Safari while recording in Clips. You can glance at each instruction without leaving your recording session, which keeps the pacing natural.
• Social media content research. Open a trending topic or reference video in Safari, then build your own short clip in Clips without ever leaving the Split View. Copy text, check details, and record — all without a single app switch.

How to set it up with Splicon

If you haven't downloaded the app yet, start there — Download Splicon free from the App Store.

1. Open Splicon and find your pair. Search for Clips and Safari, then select them as your Split View combination. Splicon pulls in the real app icons and arranges them as a single side-by-side image.
2. Choose a split style and save the icon. Pick the layout that matches how you want the apps to appear — equal halves or weighted to one side — then generate the icon and save it to your Photos library.
3. Build the shortcut. Open the Shortcuts app and create a new shortcut. Add an "Open App" action, set the mode to Split View, and choose Clips and Safari as the two apps. When prompted to choose an icon, select the image you saved from Splicon.
4. Add it to your Home Screen. Tap the shortcut name at the top, choose "Add to Home Screen," position it wherever makes sense, and tap Add. The custom icon shows up just like any other app.

The result is a single tap that opens both apps side by side, with an icon that actually tells you what it does at a glance — no generic shortcut glyph to decode.

A few tips once you're up and running

Clips records in portrait and landscape, so rotate your iPad depending on how much Safari context you need. Landscape gives each app more horizontal room, which is useful when you're referencing a longer article or a wide video. Portrait compresses both panels but keeps everything reachable with one hand if you're on an iPad mini.

If you create content regularly, consider making separate Splicon shortcuts for different workflows — one for Clips and Safari, another for Clips and Photos, and so on. Each gets its own custom icon, so your Home Screen becomes a quick-launch board for the specific tasks you actually do, rather than a grid of single apps you have to combine manually every time.