Apple’s new MacBook Pro notch is misbehaving. Early adopters have found inconsistencies in how Apple handles the notch throughout macOS and in particular person apps, leading to sudden habits the place standing bar objects can get hidden underneath the notch. These inconsistencies make it really feel like Apple has forgotten, in areas of macOS, that it has constructed a notch into the MacBook Pro.

Snazzy Labs proprietor Quinn Nelson has posted two movies on Twitter demonstrating a number of the early notch points. The essential video demonstrates what seems to be a bug in macOS. Status bar objects like Apple’s battery indicator can get hidden beneath the notch when standing bar objects are prolonged.

Nelson demonstrates this with iStat Menus, which may be hidden underneath the notch or can drive system objects just like the battery indicator to be hidden beneath the notch. While Apple has issued steerage to builders on work with the notch, the developer behind iStat Menus says the app is simply using standard status items and that Apple’s dev steerage “won’t solve the issue presented in the video.” This doesn’t look like supposed habits, because the notch works in another way inside sure apps.

Nelson additionally highlights how an older model of DaVinci Resolve avoids the notch. In apps that haven’t been up to date for the notch, you may’t even transfer your mouse pointer into it. Apple blocks off this area in order that older apps can’t show menu objects beneath the notch. 9to5Mac points out that this habits is inconsistent throughout the remainder of macOS, although, so when you’ve got Finder in focus then the cursor can get misplaced behind the notch.

The notch can even exacerbate current macOS points. Apps like DaVinci Resolve (with prolonged menu objects) can take over the area utilized by system standing objects. MacRumors points out that is common macOS habits, however that the notch clearly reduces the quantity of area for each the menu objects and standing objects. It’s an ongoing concern that has spawned apps like Bartender and Dozer to assist handle the macOS menu bar.

It’s not clear how Apple will handle these inconsistencies, at the same time as builders replace their common apps to work across the notch. Thankfully, these issues will likely be extraordinarily uncommon and can solely possible seem in apps with a lot of menu or standing objects.

Either means, it’s odd this wasn’t a design consideration forward of the MacBook Pro launch. As Verge govt editor Dieter Bohn puts it: “Soooo the team in charge of Menu Items in apps was read in on the notch, but the team in charge of Menu Status items was not? lol”

In different phrases, don’t blame app builders, it’s notch all the time gonna be their fault.