Canvas in Unity is slightly off to use on actual phone - android

I am currently working with Unity on a litle platformer for Android. However, I have noticed, that the canvas is just slightly off on my phone than it is in the preview from the unity editor. Here is the difference:
The upper picture is the unity editor, the lower one is from my Samsung S8.
Now, it is clearly not about the black bars. I told the canvas to always render in a 16:9 ratio, so that is fine. However, if you notice the cross, it is just slightly closer to the bottom of the screen. Also to the left of the ground on my phone, you see a little blue line where the background peeks through. Again in the upper picture, this isnt the case. I know it is "just a few pixels" however I am wondering over what I am doing wrong.
I set the canvas to "Scale with screensize" So what could be the issue here?
Thanks for the help!
This is the Dpad: It is an image on the canvas. it works with buttons that are invisible but on top of the dpad.

Samsung S8 native resolution is 2960x1440, so not 16:9? If we control the screen by width, 1440/9*16 = 2560, that would explain the black bar on the side? (2960-2560)/2 each side

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If it's that, you can also take care of the window bar size (which is a problem because it can change from different devices), since godot will count its pixels too.
Notice that you're only having this problem in one axis.
Also, I think you could take a look into the Viewport Stretch Mode. It could mess your graphics depending of the intended result—but other projects won't even notice, so judge for yourself.
The viewport setting sets the root scene’s Viewport to the base resolution. The rendered output of the root Viewport is then scaled to the display resolution. [...]
The viewport setting is a better choice than the 2d setting when pixel-perfect precision is required, since primary rendering still occurs at the base resolution.
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I have searched both Stack Overflow, and Unity Answers, but I can't find any information on this problem. I have asked a question on unity answers, still awaiting response.
The problem I have is when I build to either Android, or Web, (haven't tried others), there is a black bar on the right of the screen. On android, it is a duplication, 4 times, of a strip of the screen. about 20px wide, and 1/4 of the screen height, quadrupled up the right side of the screen. When I move objects through the area of the screen being copied, it is animated in the side bar.
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My game is 2D, using orthographic camera.
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Edit * [Solved] Thank you to Josh, the problem was solved!!!! What was going on was on my mainCamera, the Viewport Rect setting were of. I had the settings as
X=0, Y=0, W=0.975, H=1.
So a bit of the width of the screen was being clipped.
I set the settings to the default,
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This is the glitch on Chrome Web player, no screen copying, just black, where the background should be blue
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Try setting it to 'Solid Color', or 'Skybox' and set the Skybox Material parameter in Edit -> Render Settings.
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