“People have already expressed dissatisfaction with the notch on the iPhone X, and some don’t like it at all,” Brenda Stolyar writes for Digital Trends.
“In our day-to-day use, we generally liked the look of the operating system flanking the notch, but we did find it broke immersion when watching YouTube videos or movies on Netflix,” Stolyar writes. “It can be distracting.”
“But there are still a large amount of apps that do not support the full display. These will easily stand out, because you’ll see large black bars on the top and bottom of the screen — making your iPhone X look like an iPhone 8,” Stolyar writes. “You won’t have trouble with Apple’s apps, but even Google has yet to add support for most of its apps. Slack, Trello, even Snapchat are just a few of the apps we saw that have yet to add support for the full display.”
Every review I’ve read says the notch is annoying for about a day. Then it disappears and you’re entirely used to it.
Note sure why MDN feels the overwhelming need to bang this drum, but for everyone else: the notch tells you where the FaceID camera is, and which way is up. The half-baked “ideal” iPhone X mockups with a slightly thicker bezel on the top than the bottom would have people picking up their phones upside down all the time, and grandmas around the world swearing that their FaceID doesn’t work because they’re holding the sensor in the palm of their hand and making eye-contact with the bottom bezel. Once and for all, the notch is essential for this iPhone. And no, none of you are better designers than the Apple Team that designed the notch.
It’s an “inelegant kludge” as MDN says. Very unlike Apple.
Users may quickly develop “Notch Blindness,” but it’s a formatting mess for millions of apps and developers.
I’d prefer if Apple did as MDN suggested and reserve the “bunny ears” for iOS signal indicators on a deep black background. Users wouldn’t mind that one bit and neither would developers. Having something occlude fullscreen videos is a poor solution.
How do you know? You realize that your brain does this type of sensory exclusion as a routine matter all day long, right? The deep unconscious part of your brain known as the thalamus filters out about 99% of sensory input from your body, including visual input. This is how people adapt to early cataracts, floaters, low light and eye movement. The notch will most likely trigger this same adaptive response. This means the notch will likely disappear or even become a familiar part of the phone’s visual pattern that will become the way we visually identify it and match it to a positive expectation. We’ll have to wait to see what happens in mass adaptation or at least until you live with it for a few days. It appears that should you decide to wait for a differe form factor, plenty of the rest of us are willing to test it for you.
The brain is amazing at sensory exclusion but as long as other displays that iPhone X users may use in their daily life does not include a notch, I have a feeling it may be more like a person getting used to an odor stepping out to fresh air and returning to find the odor has to be experienced again. Now imagine that happening a number of times a day.
That might be worth experimenting with. How ‘off’ can your eye-contact be and still unlock the phone? Can you unlock it in landscape mode?
MDN is spot on and I admire their courageous attempts in the face of critical and mocking fanboys.
I don’t buy the argument the notch is necessary to orient the users. There are more than one visual clues on the phone already to properly orient the user. And when Apple abandons the notch in iPhone XI, they can add more …
I’m not a fanboy. I’m a neuroscientist. I did not say that the notch was “necessary to orient others.” I said that the brain would likely make it disappear and that it is likely to become a visual cue to a positive expectation. That’s how brains work.
I did find MDNs pics amusing. Trouble is if the added notch they created was simply extended to the full width of the screen it would still be irritating infact I suspect more so, so it’s only the easily fooled who would take it seriously as a proof of MDN concept. But yes as I say amusing.
But, oh, how much more better it would be fully intact? Your merely making excuses, because the sculpture did not at the end of his work take a 10-lbs sledgehammer to his art, but Apple apparently did.
That sculpture is ‘complete’ would have ‘set’ the position of the arms. As it is w/o arms it is considered a work of art that stirs the imagination into imagining what position the arms could be in and in its way presents an infinity of possibility. The notch does no such thing.
The iPhone X notch is something “added” – it is there to see. In contrast the Venus de Milo has lacked arms for a long time. Similarly, the Sphinx’s nose has been damaged for a long time, although it is still deteriorating. You need to find an example where the object includes a distracting feature, like your posts.
…according to Makrizi, Rashidi and other medieval Arab scholars, the face of the Sphinx was vandalized in 1378 A.D. by Mohammed Sa’im al-Dahr, a “fanatical sufi of the oldest and most highly respected sufi convent of Cairo.” [long before Napoleon Bonaparte.]
Al-Dahr was hurt by reports of prominent western travellers ridiculing the Sphinx’s proboscis, and thus had the prominence destroyed out of misplaced vanity. Napoleon’s cannoneers finished the task. The real mystery remains, however—no one knows what the nose knows.
it’s no mystery, Al-Dahr was a rhino…a 14th century John Boehner.
…read that in last Sunday’s Al-Schnozzeera.
Right. A periodical specialising in Jimmy Durante ethnic jokes, translated into farsi from the original yiddish.
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”
Apple has lost its taste because of one notch? That the notch somehow represents an absence of original ideas and culture?
That is what you are implying, botty, and it is ridiculous. I would encourage you to try again, but that would be the definition of insanity, because the same thing *will* happen again.
My favourite part of that movie was when the grizzled old miner convinced his partners, after they’d sluiced off all the gold, to do the hard work of putting the mountain back together, and then saying, “thanks, mountain.” Old guys respected the land, and understood karma, and didn’t need no stinking environmental regulations to force them to do the right thing.
Absolutely correct, Herself. 🌿🌎
So many beautiful moments in that magnificent movie! Most critics regard Bogey’s performance as the absolute BEST of his career and I agree …
Hard to decide which one is his best…Caine Mutiny character is similar, Queeg was a lot like Dobbs.
Maltese Falcon is still my #1 Bogie.
All the movies you mention are absolutely great.
Like TOSM, High Sierra is also at the top of my list. Big Sleep was a breakthrough flick. Key Largo a mob masterpiece and the one where Bogey, or is it Bogie, breaks out of prison and holes up with Bacall in her San Francisco artist apartment. Great period visuals.
Damn, drawing a blank … 🤔
oh, you mean “Dark Passage”…an odd film. Agnes Moorehead falling out of window was best part.
Right, thanks.
Yeah, the WITCH got what was coming to her.
Her last words, where’s Samantha? … 😉
a great, great movie…I liked when they beat the crap outta Barton MacLane in the bar for screwin’ ’em on paycheck.
…and, of course, Max Steiner’s great score.
Yeah, that was the most righteous scene in the movie by men that took justice matters into their own hands. 👊🏻
Runner up was the Federalist police that jailed the bandits, then followed with the firing squad in the market square. The defiant facial expression behind bars of the jailed leader is priceless.
The climax was Bogey getting his head chopped off by the bandits. All you saw was a trail of blood to the water below and a slight splash. Totally chilling for a movie of its time …
Howard: We’ve wounded this mountain. It’s our duty to close her wounds. It’s the least we can do to show our gratitude for all the wealth she’s given us. If you guys don’t want to help me, I’ll do it alone.
Curtin: You talk about that mountain like it was a real woman.
Dobbs: She’s been a lot better to me than any woman I ever knew. Keep your shirt on, old-timer. Sure, I’ll help ya.
Not for nothing has the Earth been singled out by every culture as a fecund force unto herself, the only god(dess) that really matters to every single human. – Allah may promise every brash young jihadist a noble death and infinite reward for killing unbelievers, but has little to say for the rest. I wonder about the muslims killed by suicide bombers. What was their reward for believing? Precious little, I am given to understand, compared to the paradise posthumously occupied by these sanctified murderers.
It is impossible not to see holy war as a perversion of the religious instinct. In fact, it looks exactly like a plot Satan might have thought up to ramp up the death rate and keep Hell well-populated, after humans were able to overcome the famine and pestilence plans. Plan C is working out even better than Plans A and B.. thanks to the ineffable gullibility of humankind.
…some say Satan’s greatest achievement was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.
…speaking of Satan, looks like the Dodgers are going to lose. 🙂
Fingers crossed, not that I’m superstitious
John Boehner is my new hero, after reading that Politico interview
I’ll just pretend you didn’t really type that.
Dodgers lose. Little bastards got what they deserved. Pardon my animus
heh, good for Houston, they’ve had a tough year…the great thing about baseball is that in a best of seven, the best team truly wins.
Amen to that
I forgot the woman element, thanks … 😀
This sounds like all that nonsense about the headphone jack. No headphone jack! It has a notch! The sky is falling!!!
Not going to be bullshited by the ‘notch is OK’ crowd, and won’t buy a flawed iPhone. What was Pipeline thinking we he OK’d it? Was he at one of Hillary’s strategy sessions when Ives slipped that past everyone?
Who gives a shit about the notch. In the end it will work out fine.
How many people are bitching about the lack of headphone connector anymore?
Relax and enjoy the new phone. I know I will.
Hey MacDailyNews, Put that piece of Black Plastic Tape along your eye brows and you’ll get used to your iPhone X. Then pull that sucker off and you’ll really have something to cry about.
First world problems.
And yet next years iPhone Xa won’t have it…..
That’s encouraging. Apple will fix its mistake next year. That just begs the question why Apple allowed the mistake to occur at all?
That would be because we live in the first world.
No, just poor design.
Every review I’ve read says the notch is annoying for about a day. Then it disappears and you’re entirely used to it.
Note sure why MDN feels the overwhelming need to bang this drum, but for everyone else: the notch tells you where the FaceID camera is, and which way is up. The half-baked “ideal” iPhone X mockups with a slightly thicker bezel on the top than the bottom would have people picking up their phones upside down all the time, and grandmas around the world swearing that their FaceID doesn’t work because they’re holding the sensor in the palm of their hand and making eye-contact with the bottom bezel. Once and for all, the notch is essential for this iPhone. And no, none of you are better designers than the Apple Team that designed the notch.
It’s an “inelegant kludge” as MDN says. Very unlike Apple.
Users may quickly develop “Notch Blindness,” but it’s a formatting mess for millions of apps and developers.
I’d prefer if Apple did as MDN suggested and reserve the “bunny ears” for iOS signal indicators on a deep black background. Users wouldn’t mind that one bit and neither would developers. Having something occlude fullscreen videos is a poor solution.
How do you know? You realize that your brain does this type of sensory exclusion as a routine matter all day long, right? The deep unconscious part of your brain known as the thalamus filters out about 99% of sensory input from your body, including visual input. This is how people adapt to early cataracts, floaters, low light and eye movement. The notch will most likely trigger this same adaptive response. This means the notch will likely disappear or even become a familiar part of the phone’s visual pattern that will become the way we visually identify it and match it to a positive expectation. We’ll have to wait to see what happens in mass adaptation or at least until you live with it for a few days. It appears that should you decide to wait for a differe form factor, plenty of the rest of us are willing to test it for you.
The brain is amazing at sensory exclusion but as long as other displays that iPhone X users may use in their daily life does not include a notch, I have a feeling it may be more like a person getting used to an odor stepping out to fresh air and returning to find the odor has to be experienced again. Now imagine that happening a number of times a day.
That might be worth experimenting with. How ‘off’ can your eye-contact be and still unlock the phone? Can you unlock it in landscape mode?
MDN is spot on and I admire their courageous attempts in the face of critical and mocking fanboys.
I don’t buy the argument the notch is necessary to orient the users. There are more than one visual clues on the phone already to properly orient the user. And when Apple abandons the notch in iPhone XI, they can add more …
I’m not a fanboy. I’m a neuroscientist. I did not say that the notch was “necessary to orient others.” I said that the brain would likely make it disappear and that it is likely to become a visual cue to a positive expectation. That’s how brains work.
OK, Mike …
I did find MDNs pics amusing. Trouble is if the added notch they created was simply extended to the full width of the screen it would still be irritating infact I suspect more so, so it’s only the easily fooled who would take it seriously as a proof of MDN concept. But yes as I say amusing.
Really getting tired hearing about “the notch” like Higo said, pretty much all the reviewers are saying you get used to it after a day or 2.
I honestly love it, it’s distinctive and actually gets used instead of just keeping them blacked out.
I like it…
Get over it folks.
You only prove that some people are willing to accept anything.
I guess you can get used to an armless Venus de Milo too.
Not one of your best analogies, botty, because the Venus de Milo is generally regarded as an incredible work of art. You might want to try again.
But, oh, how much more better it would be fully intact? Your merely making excuses, because the sculpture did not at the end of his work take a 10-lbs sledgehammer to his art, but Apple apparently did.
That sculpture is ‘complete’ would have ‘set’ the position of the arms. As it is w/o arms it is considered a work of art that stirs the imagination into imagining what position the arms could be in and in its way presents an infinity of possibility. The notch does no such thing.
You know, when I first saw The Sphinx with his nose broken off…I thought, “I can get used to this.”
The iPhone X notch is something “added” – it is there to see. In contrast the Venus de Milo has lacked arms for a long time. Similarly, the Sphinx’s nose has been damaged for a long time, although it is still deteriorating. You need to find an example where the object includes a distracting feature, like your posts.
…according to Makrizi, Rashidi and other medieval Arab scholars, the face of the Sphinx was vandalized in 1378 A.D. by Mohammed Sa’im al-Dahr, a “fanatical sufi of the oldest and most highly respected sufi convent of Cairo.” [long before Napoleon Bonaparte.]
Islam: Where every day is always 700 ad.®
Al-Dahr was hurt by reports of prominent western travellers ridiculing the Sphinx’s proboscis, and thus had the prominence destroyed out of misplaced vanity. Napoleon’s cannoneers finished the task. The real mystery remains, however—no one knows what the nose knows.
it’s no mystery, Al-Dahr was a rhino…a 14th century John Boehner.
…read that in last Sunday’s Al-Schnozzeera.
Right. A periodical specialising in Jimmy Durante ethnic jokes, translated into farsi from the original yiddish.
you will like this…
https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/925935701165666304
Epic fail, sheesh …
Another instant fake avatar from a cowardly regular reader, no matter.
“You need to find an example where the object includes a distracting feature”
Hey brainless, it’s called the “NOTCH.” … 😆
As a bonus for the first million iNotches sold, Pipeline Timmy is throwing in a free “Dogs Playing Poker” velvet painting.
Keep trying, botty… You will stumble into something funny eventually.
Botty’s worst day is better than your best day.
instant karma is gonna get Timmy…
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”
Steve Jobs
Apple has lost its taste because of one notch? That the notch somehow represents an absence of original ideas and culture?
That is what you are implying, botty, and it is ridiculous. I would encourage you to try again, but that would be the definition of insanity, because the same thing *will* happen again.
No, he’s just explaining why he has no taste.
Ask this question again Saturday.
I’m still not over the camera bump, so see you Saturday.
Forgot about that. TWO Apple design BOTCHES.
Botches, I don’t need no stinkin’ Botches! … 🌵
My favourite part of that movie was when the grizzled old miner convinced his partners, after they’d sluiced off all the gold, to do the hard work of putting the mountain back together, and then saying, “thanks, mountain.” Old guys respected the land, and understood karma, and didn’t need no stinking environmental regulations to force them to do the right thing.
Absolutely correct, Herself. 🌿🌎
So many beautiful moments in that magnificent movie! Most critics regard Bogey’s performance as the absolute BEST of his career and I agree …
Hard to decide which one is his best…Caine Mutiny character is similar, Queeg was a lot like Dobbs.
Maltese Falcon is still my #1 Bogie.
All the movies you mention are absolutely great.
Like TOSM, High Sierra is also at the top of my list. Big Sleep was a breakthrough flick. Key Largo a mob masterpiece and the one where Bogey, or is it Bogie, breaks out of prison and holes up with Bacall in her San Francisco artist apartment. Great period visuals.
Damn, drawing a blank … 🤔
oh, you mean “Dark Passage”…an odd film. Agnes Moorehead falling out of window was best part.
Right, thanks.
Yeah, the WITCH got what was coming to her.
Her last words, where’s Samantha? … 😉
a great, great movie…I liked when they beat the crap outta Barton MacLane in the bar for screwin’ ’em on paycheck.
…and, of course, Max Steiner’s great score.
Yeah, that was the most righteous scene in the movie by men that took justice matters into their own hands. 👊🏻
Runner up was the Federalist police that jailed the bandits, then followed with the firing squad in the market square. The defiant facial expression behind bars of the jailed leader is priceless.
The climax was Bogey getting his head chopped off by the bandits. All you saw was a trail of blood to the water below and a slight splash. Totally chilling for a movie of its time …
Howard: We’ve wounded this mountain. It’s our duty to close her wounds. It’s the least we can do to show our gratitude for all the wealth she’s given us. If you guys don’t want to help me, I’ll do it alone.
Curtin: You talk about that mountain like it was a real woman.
Dobbs: She’s been a lot better to me than any woman I ever knew. Keep your shirt on, old-timer. Sure, I’ll help ya.
Not for nothing has the Earth been singled out by every culture as a fecund force unto herself, the only god(dess) that really matters to every single human. – Allah may promise every brash young jihadist a noble death and infinite reward for killing unbelievers, but has little to say for the rest. I wonder about the muslims killed by suicide bombers. What was their reward for believing? Precious little, I am given to understand, compared to the paradise posthumously occupied by these sanctified murderers.
It is impossible not to see holy war as a perversion of the religious instinct. In fact, it looks exactly like a plot Satan might have thought up to ramp up the death rate and keep Hell well-populated, after humans were able to overcome the famine and pestilence plans. Plan C is working out even better than Plans A and B.. thanks to the ineffable gullibility of humankind.
…some say Satan’s greatest achievement was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.
…speaking of Satan, looks like the Dodgers are going to lose. 🙂
Fingers crossed, not that I’m superstitious
John Boehner is my new hero, after reading that Politico interview
I’ll just pretend you didn’t really type that.
Dodgers lose. Little bastards got what they deserved. Pardon my animus
heh, good for Houston, they’ve had a tough year…the great thing about baseball is that in a best of seven, the best team truly wins.
Amen to that
I forgot the woman element, thanks … 😀
This sounds like all that nonsense about the headphone jack. No headphone jack! It has a notch! The sky is falling!!!
Not going to be bullshited by the ‘notch is OK’ crowd, and won’t buy a flawed iPhone. What was Pipeline thinking we he OK’d it? Was he at one of Hillary’s strategy sessions when Ives slipped that past everyone?
You may be confusing Johnathan Ive with Charles Ives.
Or – somewhat less notably, but slightly less obscurely – Burl Ives, folk singer and Oscar winner.
Interestingly enough, I haven’t heard of him…
The notch is a constant reminder how poorly iPhone X is designed.
I really loved Czech pastries until you started posting here. They really are well designed, like an iPhone.
I enjoy Kolache’s posts over your tedious ridiculous defense of the mindless Libtard agenda. Reality rules …
You’re welcome. Anything else I can do for you today?
Don’t give a fuck about the notch.
Neither did the Apple design team.
The notch is the excuse I needed to hold off dropping that much on a new iPhone.
Problem is, I don’t know how many more generations before it’s fixed.
Funniest MDN take ever! LOL!
When I saw the notch pictures I almost lost my drink and holding it in hurts the sinus canals. Well done …
Who gives a shit about the notch. In the end it will work out fine.
How many people are bitching about the lack of headphone connector anymore?
Relax and enjoy the new phone. I know I will.
Your happiness is noted.
Two months from now – no one will even be talking about the notch.
When they get rid of the notch in a year or two people will be complaining that it’s gone.
Hey MacDailyNews, Put that piece of Black Plastic Tape along your eye brows and you’ll get used to your iPhone X. Then pull that sucker off and you’ll really have something to cry about.