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Xiaomi: Show or Hide the Notch in Individual Apps

If one app stretches its content behind the notch while another leaves a black bar around it, the per-app notch setting is likely mismatched with that app's layout. This shows up mostly in games or video apps that were not built with a notch in mind. The fix depends on a setting Xiaomi lets you configure separately for each installed app.

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Notch Display per App auf Xiaomi

The notch on Xiaomi phones is not a fixed hardware element from the software's point of view. MIUI treats it as a display zone that each app can either respect or ignore, and this behavior is controlled per app rather than globally.

When an app is not designed for a notch, it sometimes stretches content straight into that area, cutting off text or UI elements. Other apps play it safe and add a black bar above the notch, wasting screen space even though the app itself could fill it.

To fix this, open SettingsNotifications & Control centerStatus barNotch in individual apps. Pick the app that looks wrong, then choose Auto or Always show notch.

Auto lets MIUI decide based on how the app was built, which works well for most modern apps. Always show notch forces the cutout to stay visible, which helps with older games or media apps that otherwise draw content underneath it.

Switching this per app rather than system-wide keeps your other apps unaffected. If an app still misbehaves after changing this, the issue usually sits in that app's own settings, not in MIUI.

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Auto lets each app decide how to render around the cutout based on its own display support. Always show notch overrides that and reserves the notch area on screen no matter what the app requests.