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Why the iPhone X needs its notch
Apr 30, 2024
More Apple news: http://www.cultofmac.com Today, well today I’m going to address an issue an awful lot of people seem to have with the iPhone X; the notch. Follow us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/cultofmac Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cultofmac Instagram: https://instagram.com/cultofmac/
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What's up guys, Stephen Culls of Mac here and today, well today I'm going to address
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an issue that an awful lot of people have with the iPhone X, the notch
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Since we released our review of the iPhone X, or heck even since the phone was announced
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everyone who's not had a go with the phone has complained about the notch. But today I'm going to do my best to convince you why it's not an issue and explain why
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I think the iPhone X actually needs it. Let's start with why it's not an issue
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If you've seen our review, I'm basically going to echo that. There may be a day or two's use, you just don't notice it
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Myself, Killian on the blog, Airfon, Leander and Lewis from the cult cast all say the same
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It sits at the top, primarily to house the front facing camera and all other fancy sensors
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It's not in the way when browsing the web or watching videos, especially if you don't scale them up so they're not edge to edge
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And then even when I do, the notch doesn't bother me. Actually it bothers me more that it's a weird aspect ratio so it crops at the top and bottom
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of the video when you scale it up, but that's another issue altogether
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The only real downside I can point out about the notch is that it leaves less room at the top for information such as battery percentage
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And Apple doesn't have a solution other than to swipe down to show it in the control centre
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Would it have been that hard to have an option to have percentage instead of a battery icon? No
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Moving on to why I think the iPhone X needs the notch and why I actually like it, let's
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start with branding. Companies, especially Apple, love to have icons of their products
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It looks nice and clean on websites, apps and manuals. Apple designers and maybe even Johnny Ive himself, who knows, sees this as a feature
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not a design mishap. It makes it stand out from other phones
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Before they stood out with the home button in a sea of capacitive or on-screen buttons
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with Android phones and with that gone, the notch takes its place
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If you were to draw the iPhone without a notch for an icon, it would just be another rectangle
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It makes it easy to differentiate the iPhone X from other phones. It's the main distinctive feature
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Not only that, it actually helps me. For example, I tend to go to bed a lot later than my fiancé, which means I have to creep
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him in pitch black. Then, when I finally get into bed, I've got to fumble around for my lightning cable to
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plug it in to charge overnight and having that notch there means I can easily see which
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is the top and the bottom. Finally, while it does take space away from the information out of the top bar, it actually
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means that it doesn't interfere with any portrait apps, giving them more room to work around
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It just cuts up at the top, then anything below the notch is for the app developers to work with
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I don't know if any of this is going to convince you to think differently about the iPhone X's notch
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But if you're sitting on the fence on whether to buy one purely because of it, you're missing
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out for no reason. Well, that's it for this video. Thank you all for watching
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Let me know your thoughts on the iPhone X's notch in the comments section down below
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I will be replying for the next hour or so and I would love to hear your thoughts
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As always, hit that like button if you enjoyed this video, subscribe if you haven't already
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and I'll catch you in the next one
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