iPhone X has a problem with playing applications on the 5.8-inch diagonal screen, and a new image captured with a phone used by an Apple company partner shows us that we will have a bad experience. More precisely, in the image below you see an iPhone X running the Pokemon GO game available in the AppStore, but unfortunately the game's interface is not displayed exactly as it should be on the new phone.
The iPhone X has a screen with a diagonal of 5.8 inches, a different resolution and a different aspect ratio, and this brings a problem for applications that are not optimized for it. Specifically, iPhone X applications that do not support the new screen will be displayed only in a portion of the screen, as you can see in the image, and this is a real problem for all those who will buy the new Apple phone.
The iPhone X will display the applications not optimized for it in a central portion of the screen, leaving the upper and lower parts completely black, as is very easily visible. The good part of this way of displaying applications on the iPhone X screen is that the cutout disappears completely and becomes almost imperceptible, but the problem is that the applications will look quite strange displayed in this kind of format.
iPhone X and the problem of playing applications on the screen
The iPhone X will display non-optimized applications exactly as they appear on the iPhone 7 Plus, that is, with empty space at the top and bottom, where the edges of the front panel would normally be. Apple did not explain this problem when it presented the iPhone X on September 12, and it will not be present for many applications that are constantly updated, but for the rest the problem will be visible and annoying.
iPhone X will have this problem with applications not because of the Apple company, but because of applications that were not designed for a screen of such size and shape. Apple cannot do anything to solve the problem with the application interface, the developers being the ones who will have to update their applications to be compatible with the new iPhone X screen, and this will happen over time.
The iPhone X is going through the same problems that all the new iPhone models went through that came with a screen that had a larger size and resolution than the previous models. I think it will take a few weeks and months until the applications have the problem solved by the developers, so until then we will have to use the iPhone X with the applications displayed on only one part of the screen.
