The new notch from the iPhone 13 is terrible. Less is not always better

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The smaller notch on the iPhone 13 is not only art for art, but also a step back.

The space saved by changing the dimensions of the notch has not been used in any way. On both sides you can see the same information all the time: on the left it is the time with the location icon, and on the right is the power cell charge indicator and icons with Wi-Fi and mobile network coverage. The only difference is that on the iPhones 13 they are slightly larger.

When it comes to the greater height of the notch, then ... it causes a problem, especially when watching a video in the 2: 1 format, which gained enormous popularity after the premiere of the iPhone X. Unfortunately, as in the case of previous models of Apple phones, the notch always landed out of the frame, so now in all new phones, except for the iPhone 13 Pro Max, it overlaps the image.

The problem affects the iPhone 13 mini the most, because the notch has the same dimensions and occupies more pixels on a smaller screen.

This fact is to blame on Apple's designers, who either didn't foresee this problem when selecting the dimensions of the notch, or they ignored the fact that Steve Jobs started tipping over in his grave and Jony Ive tearing (at least metaphorically) the remnants of hair from his head. The effect is that customers who buy iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 mini may be dissatisfied.

As if that was not enough, the appearance of the new notch does not harmonize with the iOS 15 interface. This is specifically about toast notifications, i.e. those tiny pop-up windows at the top of the screen that inform you about, for example, connecting AirPods headphones. In the case of the iPhone 12, they fit quite well in the cutout in the screen, and in the new one, which is clearly narrower, they fit like a fist to the nose ...

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