To all those that are having issues due to not being able to use the journal and getting stuck, I may have a solution. I am playing Life is Strange on a Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite, and playing this game and opening the journal gets me stuck. Under developer settings for my phone I can chose to have a simulated cutout at the bottom as well. I can reach the buttons in the journal that I could not reach before. Hopefully, this can help all those that have a phone that is bigger than 16:9. :)