Nacho Notch — Notch Hider

Zachary Wander

About this app

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IMPORTANT:
The launcher icon does nothing useful! Don't open it if you read this! This app works through the use of a custom Quick Tile. Add the tile by opening the notification shade all the way, tapping the pencil or "EDIT," and dragging "Hide Notch" to the active area. Check the "Promo" video for a visual guide, or follow this link: https://youtu.be/HhH5wK1NokY

ALSO IMPORTANT:
Android prevents screen overlays from showing on the lockscreen, so this app will not and cannot work when the device is locked!

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS.
They describe how Nacho Notch works, and will likely answer most questions.
https://github.com/zacharee/NachoNotch/blob/master/app/src/main/assets/Terms.md.

ZENFONE 5 USERS:
After installing, if the tile doesn't show up in your quick settings menu, reboot. This is a ZenUI bug!

Maybe you have a phone with a notch, maybe you don't. If you do, you might also be annoyed by having this black blob in the middle of a light-colored status bar most of the time.

If this description fits you, you probably want this app. Nacho Notch colors the status bar black while the device is in the portrait orientation, making it better fit with the notch (thereby "hiding" it).

Even if you don't have a notch, but still want a black status bar, you can use the app too. It dynamically finds the height of your statusbar, so you won't be dealing with too little or too much height, or finnicky manual sizing.

Icon color force option by Lee Shawn

Idea by Mishaal Rahman of XDA Developers (article: https://www.xda-developers.com/hide-notch-huawei-p20-essential-phone-oneplus-6-asus-zenfone-5)
GitHub: https://github.com/zacharee/NachoNotch

Ratings and reviews

Have been using this app for a while and from the start I would occasionally need to turn it off and on again because it would stop hiding the notch. But since the recent update when it started looking different, I find that it stops working almost daily sometimes more than once a day. It's great when it works but it's annoying that I have to consistently turn it off and back on again. Hopefully they'll be a fix soon.

The app works and much better than others but I'm having an issue. My phone is running stock android 8.1.0 and whenever I activate nacho notch it makes the color of all my on-screen buttons at the bottom stay white no matter what application I'm in so whenever I open something that has a white background my buttons don't change to a darker color like they normally do and I cant see them anymore. Could you please fix this

A lifesaver after OnePlus removed their hide notch setting, then brought it back, but moved all notification icons off the top bar and onto the screen cluttering the wallpaper and making screen size smaller. Unlike other notch hiding apps I've tried, it's a tiny app, free, no ads or annoying themes, bar is true AMOLED black, works in ALL apps, default settings are perfect but easy to change, has rounded corners, I never have to open app, easy to reactivate from quick settings after phone restart

What's new

- Work on fixing issues with the overlays disappearing.
- Work on fixing issues with immersive mode detection.