What Scale to fit below built in camera does
Scale to fit below built-in camera is a setting in an app’s Get Info window. When it is on, macOS lays that app out in the screen area below the camera housing, so the app’s menus and windows are not blocked by it. It applies to one app at a time and exists as a workaround for apps that are not updated for the cutout.
Where it is
Apple’s support article gives the steps:
- Quit the app.
- Click the Finder icon in the Dock, then click Applications in the Finder sidebar.
- Select the app, then choose File, then Get Info, or press Command and I.
- In the Info window, select the setting called
Scale to fit below built-in camera.
Open the app again to see the effect.
Which Macs it is for
Apple says it applies to a MacBook Air with a Liquid Retina display or a MacBook Pro with a Liquid Retina XDR display, the models with a camera housing built into the bezel. Apple does not list models in that article. For the models Apple’s own pages name, see which MacBooks have a notch.
What it does to the screen
Apple notes that if the app has menu bar items or windows that would sit behind the camera housing, the other open apps, or the apps in the same Space, also appear below the camera until you quit the scaled app. In practice you give up a strip of screen along the top while the app runs.
Why the setting may not appear
Apple states that if a developer updates the app for compatibility, the setting no longer appears. That is the normal outcome. If you do not see the checkbox, either the app is already compatible or it is not an app type that offers it. Apple suggests contacting the developer to ask whether an update is available or planned.
Name changes
Apple’s article uses this exact label. If your Mac shows a different label in Get Info, use the wording on your screen, because Apple can rename settings between macOS releases. Check your version with how to check your macOS version.
For other ways to deal with the cutout, read how to hide the notch. NotchStar draws its panel around the cutout itself, so it does not need this setting, and the Clipboard tool opens beside it.
