iPhone X Notch: Everything You Need to Know

[MacRumors]

Given the iPhone X's design was leaked months before it was unveiled, many people wondered how Apple would choose to approach the notch housing the device's new TrueDepth front camera and facial recognition system.

Now that the iPhone X is official, we know the answer. Apple's new human interface guidelines for the device advise developers to embrace the notch by ensuring the layout of their apps fill the entire screen.

Don't mask or call special attention to key display features. Don't attempt to hide the device's rounded corners, sensor housing, or indicator for accessing the Home screen by placing black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Don't use visual adornments like brackets, bezels, shapes, or instructional text to call special attention to these areas either.

In fewer words, Apple doesn't want developers to hide the notch or swipe indicator by placing black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

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[Speechless]

*shrugs* it looks damn cool to me but whatever.

 

[NovemberWhiskey]

The time looks off-center. I want to move it to the left by a mm or so.

 

[trifid]

What a UX nightmare. Jesus.

 

[Rettun1]

"The far corners of the screen can be difficult areas for people to reach comfortably."

That's why we moved control center AND Notification Center to the corners furthest from the users thumb...

I anticipate these guidelines changings, and software updates changing how the edges of the display will look within apps.

 

[geoff5093]

*shrugs* it looks damn cool to me but whatever.

Not sure how having a piece of games and videos missing is "cool", but okay.

"The far corners of the screen can be difficult areas for people to reach comfortably."

That's why we moved control center AND Notification Center to the corners furthest from the users thumb...

I laughed at this. Wasn't this the whole point of the one handed mode? Because it's tough to reach the top of larger phones?

 

[macTW]

"Make a bezelless phone! Smaller bezels the better!"

"Why didn't you make thicker bezels to hide the necessary cameras and sensors? Nobody asked for bezels that small."

 

[Greenlee]

hope there is a software fix in iOS 11 or a future release.

 

[Gob Bluth]

We can only hope that Apple starts putting notches on their MacBooks, iMacs, and iPads so that there is uniformity. A notch in every Apple display would take a lot of courage.

 

[CausticSoda]

I think it would look much better with either side of the notch blacked out when viewing photos etc - especially as this display has "true black" with it possible to switch off individual pixels. I have seen some YouTube footage of the notch "obscuring" full screen images, and it looks terrible. I would far sooner lose the top few mm when looking at photos for example, and I hope app development for its goes that way.

 

[ignatius345]

The time looks off-center. I want to move it to the left by a mm or so.

Until you go into double-digit hours. With that leading 1 (or 2 on 24-hour time), it's going to look about right.

 

[LarrySmith]

Just add an option in 11.1 for a black status bar for those who want it.

 

[Avatar74]

The time looks off-center. I want to move it to the left by a mm or so.

It's an optical illusion caused by the "heavier" packing of objects on the right side... of course, that itself is a bit of an aesthetic error. They could have scaled the icons differently to make it look more uniform to the clock on the opposite side.

 

[Hedwigg]

"Controversial"... just like the iPhone 7/7+'s "controversial" camera bump. Now nobody even thinks about it. People always have to make something out of nothing. Ugh.

 

[Ds6778]

Purely a marketing tatctic. If they hid the sensors within a small bezel, the phone would look just like an S8, G6 etc. they want this phone to stand out. When you see that notch you’ll know exactly what phone it is.

 

[JoEw]

Means to an end I imagine, Apple surely expects the notch to eventually go away.
For reference dating back to 2009:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/08/apple_files_patent_for_camera_hidden_behind_display

 

[Marshall73]

What a UX nightmare. Jesus.

What a hysterical drama queen. Two can play that game.

 

[Act3]

What does the notch bring to the table? The time and other symbols could have been moved below and made it straight across with no loss in useable screen. Plenty of space above the mail icon and the camera icon to put the time and stuff.

 

[LarrySmith]

I hope app development for its goes that way.

Apple's dev guidelines tell them explicitly not to do this so those apps would be rejected.

 

[Jett0516]

I would suggest putting a black tape across the top. Then make holes for the cameras.

 

[Act3]

"Controversial"... just like the iPhone 7/7+'s "controversial" camera bump. Now nobody even thinks about it. People always have to make something out of nothing. Ugh.

the notch will always be in your face, unlike the camera bump on the back

 

[BornAgainMac]

Not a big fan of it, but over time I would get use to it. I am glad the white bezel around the screen is finally gone no matter what color you pick for the back of the phone.

 

[stevet]

"Make a bezelless phone! Smaller bezels the better!"

"Why didn't you make thicker bezels to hide the necessary cameras and sensors? Nobody asked for bezels that small."

No one asked for a notch in the top. Now that one is there, the bezel at the top makes sense. It's ok to adjust as you are given more details. The notch is out of place when in landscape. For a company that has painstakingly talked about .001mm chamfers on corners of devices, this is a complete screw up. It can be taken care of by the OS but they are refusing to do that for some odd reason.

 

[thingstoponder]

How is it controversial? Why would they cut the notch out and not utilize it? They would be morons to do that.

I see all this BS marketing by other companies about "bezel-less" edge to edge phones and Apple comes out and actually does it. This is the first phone with as little bezels as possible. Every other phone has wasted space. The only bezels on the iPhone X are absolutely necessary as it's not possible to put cameras through a display.

 

[cerote]

So it's a don't put in apps to hide the notch. Leave that for us to release later as a feature.