Force letterboxing on iPhone X

I'm having issues with the notch and safe areas on iPhone X, mostly because our app was designed for Android and pre-X iPhone devices. I was reading old apps are letterboxed on X, but for some reason newer apps have to be designed with X beforehand. Is there a way to force letterboxing inside the safe area?

I'm using the last xCode version.

 

You could check with iOS.Device.generation if it is an iPhone X, but as you mentioned Android, there are a several Android phones coming with notches, so you will need other checks which I have no idea over.

Notches are a stupid idea.

 

There is no way to force letter-boxing if you build your app with Xcode 9 or newer. You can use black bars in the UI on both sides to make it look like letter-boxed. But I am not sure if Apple will approve that. Notches are the stupidest thing I've ever seen since smartphones came out.

 

Welp, what a sad thing

I'm doing a system which is gonna resize the canvas based on which device is being run. As I don't have a iPhone X, what are the possible names to get with SystemInfo.deviceModel?

EDIT: After some researching, I found the possible names for iPhone X devices here: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Models#iPhone
Now I'll wait for someone with an X for testing.

 

You can use this to detect if the device is an iPhone X in Unity.

Code (CSharp):

1.     if (UnityEngine.iOS.Device.generation == UnityEngine.iOS.DeviceGeneration.iPhoneX)
2.     {
3.         // Do iPhone X stuff here
4.     }

 

I can test for you if you want.
I had the same issue and what I did was basically the same as I already do on Android superwidescreen devices, I check the aspect ratio to see if it's wider than 16:9 and then add the letterbox.
The problem with using iOS.DeviceGeneration.iPhoneX is that if/when apple releases another device with similar aspect ratio you will have to update the game again.

 

If you wanted to try it on an iphone x device and you dont have one , you can try using a simulator