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

It works really well, but it oddly lacks an option to automatically start at boot. I have to launch the app myself, and view the settings. It also oddly tends to get disabled after I charge my phone. The notification actually disappears. No other app with a persistent notification does this, so there must be some way around this.

More or less works. Android's insistence on popping a notification when the app is running is annoying but not the app's fault. Bigger issues are the frequent bugs, including the black bar showing up over landscape videos at times (blocking part of the video), the bar drawing over notifications at times (covering up the entire notch portion of the screen), the bar being offset down vertically at times (showing part of the notch but covering part of the screen), and many many more.

Been using it the past year to hide the hideous pixel 3 xl notch. Makes things look so much cleaner. However after updating to Android 10 (Q?) it seems a little finicky. Seems to stop working randomly and switching it on and off doesn't help. It seemsnto fix itself randomly too. Not sure what triggers either. Hopefully an update will solve the issue.

What's new

- Fix more Android 12 related issues.
- Code cleanup.