An electronic device displays icons of a plurality of applications on a home screen, displays a plurality of first prompts around one or more icons of one or more second-type applications in response to the at least one of the touch-and-hold operation or the force touch operation on an icon of a first application, and a first prompt indicates that the one or more second-type applications support split screen, receives a first operation performed by the user of dragging an icon of the first application to contact a first prompt corresponding to an icon of a third application, and, in response, switches from displaying the home screen to displaying a first split-screen interface, where the first split-screen interface comprises an interface of the first application and an interface of the third application being displayed at a same time.