Why Your iPhone Has a ‘Notch’

George Tinari
Adventures in Consumer Technology
5 min readOct 10, 2018

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Photo: Apple

You’ve undoubtedly noticed the notch at the top of the iPhone X or iPhone XS display. It’s that black part that houses the top speaker, camera, and Face ID technology that cuts into the display, leaving it to extend into two corners.

The easy answer as to why it’s there has already been said. It houses the speaker and camera system. Obviously, they need to stick that stuff somewhere, right? But that’s the easy…

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George Tinari
Adventures in Consumer Technology

Usually writing about Apple, but I get bursts of passion elsewhere too. Seen on MakeUseOf, Engadget, Cult of Mac, Guiding Tech, and others.