Embodiments of this application provide a split-screen display method and an electronic device, which are applied to the field of terminal technologies. The method includes: receiving a first operation for an application; displaying, in response to the first operation, an icon of the application as a first state on a display screen, where the first state is used to identify that a split-screen display operation can be performed for a plurality of functions of the application; receiving a second operation for the icon in the first state; and respectively displaying, in response to the second operation, interfaces corresponding to the plurality of functions of the application in a plurality of split-screen areas. In the embodiments of this application, an application icon may be triggered on an interface of a terminal device, to implement split-screen displaying of a function of an application, thereby simplifying a manner of opening different functions of the application and improving user experience.