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The notch is pretty awful when watching full-screen content in landscape orientation indeed. And no way to get around it in most software. Less annoying but still a distortion are the rounded corners. There should be an option while watching media to simply fill the screen without clipping.

Does Samsung have similar ways to help you prevent displaying content on the distorted sides of an Edge screen?

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The iPhone XS has a screen aspect ratio of 19.5:9 so most 16:9 content should be easily viewable with pillar boxing (black bars on the sides) and make the notch "disappear".

I'm fairly sure that this is the default and only if you double tap on the video to zoom in would it then fill the screen and make the notch noticeable.

The phone does this by default. You have to double tap the video to zoom in to get the notch/corners to cut some of your video.

Funny, I only ever see demos of movies and games on the iPhone X with all of the cutouts.

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