Apple internally refers to the weird sides surrounding the…:
One of the expected signature features of the iPhone 8, as many are calling it, is its edge-to-edge OLED display that's only interrupted by an awkward-looking “notch” on the top of the phone, which will house the phone's front-facing cameras and sensors. While Apple might choose to hide this notch most of the time, like when a user is watching a movie, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple will not hide the notch for most apps with non-black backgrounds, and it will instead use that area to show status information like time and battery life.
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