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Huawei: Hide or Show the Notch on Your Display

Some apps stretch content right into the notch area, so a status icon or a piece of text gets clipped by the front camera cutout. Other apps leave the space next to the notch pitch black, wasting screen real estate on your Huawei phone. Both issues come down to how EMUI renders the notch zone for full-screen content.

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Set Notch Display Areas auf Huawei

The notch on a Huawei phone houses the front camera and sensors, but full-screen apps do not always handle that cutout the same way. Some content stretches straight through it, clipping a letter, an icon or part of an image. Other apps leave the strip on either side of the notch black, which looks like a permanent shadow bar at the top of the display.

EMUI gives you two ways to render this area. The Default option lets apps use the full display width, including the space around the notch, so some content may still touch the cutout. The Hide notch option darkens a horizontal bar across the top of the screen, hiding the camera housing behind a black background on supported apps.

To change it, open Open the settingsTap on Display & brightnessTap on More display settingsTap on Notch and choose between Default and Hide notch.

This setting only changes how the top bar is rendered. It does not fix apps that are individually coded to ignore the notch, and some games or video players may keep their own full-screen behavior regardless of what you pick here.

Frequently asked questions

Some apps force their own full-screen layout and do not read the system notch setting. Check if the app has its own display or aspect ratio option under its in-app settings.