Forehead

Apple announced the new MacBook Pro yesterday, and I can't wait to receive mine next week. I saw some people complain about the notch (I like it but tastes differ), so I made a little utility that makes the menu bar black so the Notch fades away in the background.

The app takes your wallpaper and modifies it to add a black bar at the top. I'm tweaking the height of the bar still, so please send me a message on Twitter if you run into any weird bugs.

As I spent waaaayyy too much money on my new MacBook yesterday, I left the option open to pay for the app, but I will post the source code here tomorrow as well so you can compile it yourself if you want. (2:30 AM right now and I spent the last hour fixing a code signing issue, thanks Josh!)

Features

• Switch between your default wallpaper and a notchless one
• Simulate a Notch on older Macs (coming in version 1.x)
• Round the corners of your entire screen (similar to the rounded top corners on the new Macs
• Works on Big Sur and Monterey (not properly tested on Big Sur so let me know if you run into anything)

Known issues:

• For some of the default wallpapers, Forehead can't retrieve the wallpaper to modify it. Please send me a message on Twitter if you run into this.
• For dynamic wallpapers, Forehead is unable to update all the different variations of the wallpaper so it will use the default one.

If you have any feedback or suggestions, let me know on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jordibruin