The notch on the new MacBook Pro breaks several menus, but it's easy to fix — here's how.

If you're experiencing trouble with the camera notch on the new MacBook Pro, here's an easy workaround.

Apple's latest MacBook Pro models are powerful creative machines, but they have a flaw. Menu functionality on some apps is being broken by the notch at the top of the screen that houses the webcam. Apple offers a solution that keeps apps below the notch until app developers update their apps to leave the notch region alone.

If you've seen any of the videos showing some apps' strange behaviour around the notch region on the new MacBook Pros, you know how broken macOS' present notch behaviour is.

Menus may appear beneath the notch, or other items such as battery indications may become stuck beneath it, appearing only when the user moves the mouse cursor across the notch area. It's an unappealing appearance, but there's a quick fix.

Here's how to repair the notch issue on the MacBook Pro temporarily:

Using control click.

To bring up the context menu, click and select an app icon.

Select Get Info from the context menu.

Scale to fit below the built-in camera can be found by scrolling down.

Check to see if the box is checked.

This is standard behaviour in macOS, with Apple including this compatibility mode in macOS Monterey expressly to prevent apps from "inadvertently putting content in the region occupied by the housing (e.g. the notch)."

We're not sure why Apple is making this a per-app decision when we believe that turning compatibility mode on system-wide until developers update their apps to avoid the notch would be a better solution.

Oh, and if you don't want to see the notch, there are apps like TopNotch and Forehead that turn the menu bar dark, making the notch blend in with the rest of the screen.

If you run programmes in fullscreen mode, macOS Monterey apparently also puts the top of the screen dark like this, so that's another alternative.