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Ethan Sanchez • 3 years ago

Now you have a huge black bar on the top of your screen 👍

Carson Fortner • 3 years ago

In most apps there is a huge grey bar anyways lmao

Lucretius • 3 years ago

Have a 4a and don't even notice the hole punch anymore. But curious about trying this.

Detonation • 3 years ago

Where was this when the 3XL came out? Would have actually been useful then since it would just look like a 2XL with your status bar in the upper bezel.

Nacho Notch worked alright but still had issues

whatever95 • 3 years ago

How about making the status bar transparent instead?

mattcoz • 3 years ago

Apps have the ability to do this, but they must be designed to work that way and it can't just be enabled across the board.

mattcoz • 3 years ago

Good, double cutout is still there.

Matthew • 3 years ago

Wait, but these cutout apk's have been on my phone ever since android 10....

Why are we just now getting them?

mattcoz • 3 years ago

They added this new one to the existing ones.

Marco Calderon • 3 years ago

This is official so no need for apk

RENLIKEDINDIN • 3 years ago

What I need Google to do is thin out bezels on my Pixelbook go 💻chromebook i'm not worried about punch hole on my pixel phone 📱

Guest • 3 years ago
mattcoz • 3 years ago

Some end users were asking for this.

Guest • 3 years ago
David Gray • 3 years ago

Solution: turn on normal navbar buttons so it's symmetrical.

I realise that hole punches are a stopgap towards fullscreen phones, but I've never seen anything wrong with small top and bottom bezels. They look fine and don't get in the way.

Carson Fortner • 3 years ago

The bare is already huge anyway doesn't matter what colour it is

Robert Wilson III • 3 years ago

Google engineers are doing exactly the wrong thing. Looks like it's time to buy a refurbished iPhone.

RENLIKEDINDIN • 3 years ago

It's optional meaning you can enable or not 😏 I will not be enabling it I like my punch hole

Jon Deutsch • 3 years ago

A real hardware company would have figured out how to fix the hole punch in hardware (not software).

Drew • 3 years ago

by this definition a "real hardware company" doesn't exist.

Jon Deutsch • 3 years ago

Well, the phone I currently own has tiny bezels, no notch, and no punch hole. So, clearly, it's possible.

Care to guess which phone I own?

Drew • 3 years ago

no

Detonation • 3 years ago

A niche phone that most people don't care about and won't buy?

David Gray • 3 years ago

You realise that the S8 and S9 existed and sold really well!?

Jon Deutsch • 3 years ago

OnePlus 7 Pro.

danwat1234 • 3 years ago

Sony experia? Rog phone? My phone has huge bezels but I like it. Moto Z2 Force