First, devices must ensure that their cutouts do not negatively affect apps. There are two key requirements:

- In portrait orientation, with no special flags set, the status bar must extend to at least the height of the cutout.

- In fullscreen or landscape orientation, the entire cutout area must be letterboxed.



Second, devices may only have up to one cutout on each short edge of the device. This means that:

- You won't see multiple cutouts on a single edge, or more than two cutouts on a device.

- You won't see a cutout on the left or right long edge of the device.

Within these constraints, devices can place cutouts wherever they want.