u/Fit-Photojournalist1

Hello, I was wondering if there is any possible way to permanently change the height of the status bar to be wider and more Pixel/IOS like?

I personally greatly prefer it to the thin status bar we currently have on One UI and ive been looking for a solution for quite a while now.

A sort of solution I found was to enable simulated cutouts in developer options, which unless rotated gives the effect Im looking for. As soon as the screen is rotated the simulated cut out appears and does not go away. As I later found out aswell there is no way to hide or disable the cutout graphic since it is hard wired to show up any time the screen gets updated with the simulation updated.

I've tried almost every workaround I could look up aswell as everything gemini suggested me to do, but none of that worked since Samsung has greatly restricted the ability to change such options especially after Android 15.

I do have to add that I do have a thrid party dynamic island app installed aswell which I do intend on keeping. I have provided some photos of how the screen looks before and after rotation. I am on the A55 with One UI 8.

Although if anyone is willing to help it would be greatly appreciated.