You can get used to anything after putting up with it for long enough, but use a Galaxy S24 or Pixel 9 for a few weeks and when you come back to an iPhone you will realize just how intrusive the notch really is. Apple marketing has really convinced us that watching an entire movie on our $1200 device with a large chunk of the screen blacked out is totally normal.
The S24 still has a dot right in the middle of the upper part of the screen where the iPhone "notch" is[1]. When they play full screen video, don't they black out that part of the screen too? Or do they just leave a dot floating over part of the image? If the latter, I think I'd rather lose half a pinky width of screen real estate, I had a screen with 2 dead pixels one time and they were surprisingly annoying, I'd imagine a random camera dot in the image all the time would be just as bad.
It covers 16:9, but nothing beyond that. Most new releases are now 2x1 or 2.39x1, and they all get blocked by the notch. Try playing a widescreen YouTube video or any Netflix original and you will see this.
its about day to day usage, S23 user myself, whenever I use my friends phone I just can't stop staring at the thicc notch, anothwr reason it pop so much is because my friend uses light mode.
