How to adjust an app's settings to appear below the camera area on your 13.6-inch MacBook Air, 14-inch MacBook Pro, or 16-inch MacBook Pro

How to adjust an app's settings to appear below the camera area on your 13.6-inch MacBook Air, 14-inch MacBook Pro, or 16-inch MacBook Pro

How to adjust an app's settings to appear below the camera area on your 13.6-inch MacBook Air, 14-inch MacBook Pro, or 16-inch MacBook Pro

You can adjust an app’s settings so that it uses the whole display or uses only the area below the camera housing.

Your MacBook Air with Liquid Retina display or MacBook Pro with Liquid Retina XDR display features a camera housing built into the screen bezel. If app controls or menu bar items appear blocked or hidden behind the camera housing, you can turn on "Scale to fit below built-in camera" for the app to adjust the active area of your display. This ensures the menu bar and app windows appear below the built-in camera on your Mac and are always visible.

If you turn on "Scale to fit below built-in camera" for an app and the app has menu bar items or windows that would appear behind the camera housing, all open apps or apps that share the same space appear below the camera until you quit the app using the scaled setting.

Turn on 'Scale to fit below built-in camera' for an app

  1. Quit the app.
  2. Click the Finder icon in the Dock, then click Applications in the Finder sidebar.
  3. Select the app, then choose File > Get Info, or press Command-I.
  4. In the Info window that opens, select "Scale to fit below built-in camera."
    App info window with Scale to fit below built-in camera selected
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