SafeAreaContext

react-native-safe-area-context provides a flexible API for accessing device safe area inset information. This allows you to position your content appropriately around notches, status bars, home indicators, and other such device and operating system interface elements.

Platform Compatibility

Android Device	Android Emulator	iOS Device	iOS Simulator	Web
✅	✅	✅	✅	✅

Installation

expo install react-native-safe-area-context

If you're installing this in a bare React Native app, you should also follow these additional installation instructions.

API

Add SafeAreaProvider in your app root component:

import { SafeAreaProvider } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

function App() {
  return <SafeAreaProvider>...</SafeAreaProvider>;
}

Usage with the hooks API:

import { useSafeArea } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

function HookComponent() {
  const insets = useSafeArea();

  return <View style={{ paddingTop: insets.top }} />;
}

Usage with context consumer API:

import { SafeAreaConsumer } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

class ClassComponent extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <SafeAreaConsumer>{insets => <View style={{ paddingTop: insets.top }} />}</SafeAreaConsumer>
    );
  }
}

Migrating from CSS

Before

In a web-only app, you would use CSS environment variables to get the size of the screen's safe area insets.

styles.css

div {
  padding-top: env(safe-area-inset-top);
  padding-left: env(safe-area-inset-left);
  padding-bottom: env(safe-area-inset-bottom);
  padding-right: env(safe-area-inset-right);
}

After

Universally, the hook useSafeArea() can provide access to this information.

App.js

import { useSafeArea } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

function App() {
  const insets = useSafeArea();

  return (
    <View
      style={{
        paddingTop: insets.top,
        paddingLeft: insets.left,
        paddingBottom: insets.bottom,
        paddingRight: insets.right,
      }}
    />
  );
}

Web SSR

If you are doing server side rendering on the web, you can use initialSafeAreaInsets to inject values based on the device the user has, or simply pass zero. Otherwise, insets measurement will break rendering your page content since it is async.

Optimization

To speed up the initial render, you can import initialWindowSafeAreaInsets from this package and set it as the initialSafeAreaInsets prop on the provider as described in Web SSR. You cannot do this if your provider remounts, or you are using react-native-navigation.

import { SafeAreaProvider, initialWindowSafeAreaInsets } from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

function App() {
  return (
    <SafeAreaProvider initialSafeAreaInsets={initialWindowSafeAreaInsets}>...</SafeAreaProvider>
  );
}