Typically when I'm holding my phone I have my pinky supporting the weight of the phone with it resting on my other fingers, this allows my to not have to stretch my thumb to reach all over my screen. Unfortunately this also means that when I quickly pull out my phone to check time, notifications etc my thumb is perfectly inline with the area that the notifications now show up thus blocking them entirely.

Also the fact that there is no way to change it is fucking idiotic, something I'd like to go over and check out what "smart" and "innovative" people they have working at Apple. Surely they allow us to revert back to how it used to be, it was so much fucking better.