Hate the Notch on iPhone X? The Notch Remover App is Now Available on App Store

A lot has been said about the iPhone 10 since its introduction several weeks ago, just the one thing that has taken up more column space than annihilation else is the unseemly 'notch' at the top. It houses all the cutting-edge camera and sensor technology that enable Confront ID, just the unconventional design choice has spawned more than memes and jokes than any tech product in recent retention. Although information technology started off as a pattern quirk that most people originally aghast at, it is slowly but surely turning into the device's well-nigh defining feature.

There are, all the same, many dissenting voices, who might take resigned to the fact that they'll just accept to live with it if they want the latest and greatest from the Cupertino behemothic. Nevertheless, thanks to a new app bachelor on the App Store, you lot won't have to tolerate the unseemly 'notch' anymore if yous are non exactly enamored with it. Chosen Notch Remover ($0.99) the app places a black bar at the acme of the display to hide the notch, making the cease result look fairly similar to traditional smartphone designs, as you can see from the screenshot below.

The one important matter to note here is that to be able to employ the app, you'll need to give 'Read and Write' permission to it past going into Settings > Notch Remover > Photos > Read and Write. Once y'all have done that, yous volition be able to add the Blackness bars to wallpapers and then, ready these wallpapers to hide the notch.

What'south interesting, yet, is that the app is in straight violation of Apple's 'Homo Interface Guidelines', which states, "Don't attempt to hide the device'southward rounded corners, sensor housing, or indicator for accessing the Abode screen by placing blackness bars at the top and lesser of the screen". That being the case, it volition exist interesting to see whether Apple tree is intentionally going to proceed looking the other manner as far as this app is concerned, or if the company volition strictly enforce its guidelines and take downwards the app at some stage going forward.