DISPLAY METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

A display method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: displaying a first interface, where the first interface includes a first application, and a first application window of the first application occupies a first display region in the first interface; receiving a first operation, and displaying a first multi-task management window, where the first multi-task management window includes an identifier of one or more applications; detecting a drag operation performed on an identifier of a second application in the first multi-task management window, and displaying the first interface and the identifier of the second application; and after it is detected that the identifier of the second application is dragged to and then released in the first display region, displaying a second window of the second application in the second display region in the first interface, where the second display region is the first display region or a part of the first display region. Therefore, the electronic device can display application windows of a plurality of applications at the same time. In addition, the electronic device may use the multi-task management window to enable an application to switch from not running in the foreground to running in the foreground. This is convenient for operation.