An information processing apparatus includes: a display section provided with a screen capable of displaying a content of an application; a user-input processing section for acquiring an instruction input from a user; and a screen-hierarchy control section for managing a screen hierarchical order of each application when contents of a plurality of started applications are displayed in the display section. When one of at least two applications of a plurality out of the applications is set to be a master application and the other of the applications is set to be a slave application, the screen-hierarchy control section disposes and links the slave application at an immediately lower level than that of the master application in the screen hierarchy, and performs screen-hierarchy control such that the master application and the slave application are moved in the screen hierarchy in a state being linked at the time of updating the screen hierarchy.