Craft + Safari Split View on iPad: The Complete Guide

To use Craft and Safari in Split View on iPad, open Safari, swipe up slightly to reveal the Dock, then drag the Craft icon to the left or right edge of the screen until the display splits.

Once you have both apps open side by side, you have a genuinely powerful research and writing environment. Safari handles the web — articles, documentation, reference material — while Craft gives you a structured, beautiful place to capture and organize what you find. The combination works because both apps reward careful reading and deliberate note-taking rather than passive browsing.

Why Craft and Safari belong side by side

The pairing earns its screen real estate in a few specific situations:

• Active research: You're reading a long article, a product review, or a how-to guide in Safari and pulling the key points directly into a Craft document. With both visible at once, you read a paragraph, highlight what matters, and write your own version in Craft — without switching apps and losing your place.
• Trip or project planning: Safari has the hotel, restaurant, or venue pages open while Craft holds your itinerary or planning document. You copy addresses, hours, and links directly into the relevant blocks without bouncing back and forth.
• Learning and study: You're working through documentation, a course page, or a Wikipedia rabbit hole in Safari while building a personal knowledge base in Craft. Seeing both at once keeps you honest — you're synthesizing rather than just leaving forty tabs open.

The friction in all of these workflows isn't the work itself — it's the setup. Every time you want this pair, you have to drag, drop, and arrange from scratch. That's where Splicon changes the situation.

How to set it up with Splicon

If you haven't downloaded Splicon yet, grab it here: Download Splicon free from the App Store

1. Open Splicon and search for Craft and Safari. Select them as your pair — Splicon shows you a preview of how the combined icon will look with both app icons displayed side by side.
2. Choose a split style that matches how you prefer the screen divided, then generate the icon. When you're happy with it, save the image to your Photos library.
3. Open the Shortcuts app, create a new shortcut, and add an "Open App" action. Set it to open both apps in Split View. Tap the shortcut's settings and choose "Add to Home Screen," then select the Splicon icon you saved from Photos as the image.
4. Place the shortcut on your Home Screen wherever makes sense — your work page, a focused study screen, or right next to your other productivity apps.

From that point on, one tap opens Craft and Safari already arranged in Split View, positioned exactly the way you set it up.

A note on making the habit stick

The icon itself does more than save a few seconds. Because it looks like a deliberate tool — two app icons combined into one — it signals intent. Tapping it means you're sitting down to read and take notes, not just opening a browser. That small visual cue is worth more than it sounds when you're trying to build a consistent research or writing habit on your iPad.

Pair that with Craft's block-based structure, which makes it easy to organize notes by source, project, or date, and Safari's Reading List for saving articles to work through later, and you have a workflow that actually holds together over time.