![]() Bjango, the developer of iStat Menus, does not believe that adding this tool would solve the problem seen in Quinn’s video. Monterey ensures that app menu items are displayed on either side of the notch by using “compatibility mode” that disables the active display area taken up by the notch, however, that does not mean that adding this type of compatibility mode support would automatically fix the behavior we’re seeing in these videos. By blocking access to the space underneath the notch, it ensures that older versions of apps will not display menus in that space, however, at a system level, the mouse pointer can still enter the notch area where it will be hidden. While the UI inconsistency problem still remains, the behavior in the second video is actually intentional by Apple. The system only activates this compatibility mode while an app that requires it runs in the current desktop space.” – new developer document by Apple ![]() The new active area ensures your app’s contents are always visible and not obscured by the camera housing. When this mode is active, the system changes the active area of the display to avoid the camera housing. “On Macs that include a camera housing in the screen bezel, the system provides a compatibility mode to prevent apps from unintentionally putting content in the region the housing occupies. I say ‘supposedly’ because, well, it no work. Apple’s newest macOS, Monterey, has a new “compatibility mode” that is supposedly a tool to stop any content being obscured by the camera housing. It’s worth noting that the menu bar behavior he is pointing out in his videos is, of course, third-party apps that have not been updated to accommodate the new notch. In the first video, menu bar items for popular app iStat Menus can be seen partially hidden behind the notch but still accessible via mouse pointer, albeit obscurely, but still accessible.Ĭontrastingly, in his second video, he opens an older version of DaVinci Resolve, where he illustrates how the menu bar items act differently by avoiding the notch altogether, blocking mouse pointer access in the process. For what it’s worth, Bjango, the developer of iStat Menus, does not believe that adding compatibility support to his app would change the behavior of the app’s status items when other apps are in the foreground and is unlikely to solve the problem depicted in the video.WHO DESIGNED THIS?! □ /ADVqmfdqV2- Quinn Nelson October 26, 2021 Monterey ensures that app menus appear on either side of the notch by using a new “Compatibility Mode” that disables the active viewing area occupied by the camera body. This is actually normal behavior with macOS and will run on any Mac, but the notch reduces the space available for both sets of content in the menu bar. In the second video, Nelson further complains that the notch is causing DaVinci Resolve’s advanced menus to take over the menu items from iStat menus on the right side of the menu bar. This behavior also applies in full screen mode. ![]() At the system level, however, the mouse pointer can penetrate the notch area and be hidden there. ![]() Disabling the active area under the notch area and blocking the mouse pointer ensures that older versions of apps cannot display menus in that area. ![]() The latter behavior is a deliberate move by Apple. In the second video, however, when Nelson starts an old version of DaVinci Resolve, he notices that the extended drop-down menus of the video editing app avoid the area of the menu bar covered by the notch and the mouse pointer is directed to entering the hidden room. In the first video, menu bar items for popular App iStat menus are shown partially hidden behind the notch, but are still accessible with the mouse cursor. Notifications iStat Menus can notify you of an incredibly wide range of events, based on CPU, GPU, memory, disks, network, sensors, battery, power and weather. Snazzy Labs YouTuber Quinn Nelson divided two videos on Twitter lamenting the impact of the notch on versions of two third-party apps that haven’t been updated to make way for the notch. Based on new video evidence, this appears to be the case, at least for non-updated apps that use menu items extensively, but not for apps with expanded drop-down menus. The concern was that advanced menus or menu items were accidentally hidden behind the notch in the menu bar. When Apple unveiled the new MacBook Pro models with a notch to accommodate the camera in the thinner display bezel, many observers pointed to potential problems for third-party apps that place additional content in the form of drop-down menus above the menu bar that differ from left or menu items that extend from the right. ![]()
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