Hello everyone it's SpawnPoiint and I've been using the iPhone 14 pro Max for nearly
a month now and today I wanted to give you my updated thoughts on it a Hands-On review of the
features pros and cons so we've obviously got a few new features such as the dynamic Island
and brighter screen improved cameras for photos and videos and that new action load
but are these changes enough to justify upgrade into the 14 pro or the pro Max now as I shoot
all the videos on my Channel with an iPhone it's been a good opportunity to really see how the 14
pro Max performs as my daily phone so if you were thinking of buying one of the latest iPhone 14
Pros hopefully this video will give you an idea of what to expect now one of the biggest changes
that we've seen this year is the addition of the dynamic Island that's the little notch or pale at
the top and I will say I do prefer this over the notch that we've had before they've taken what is
a pretty boring Hardware feature and turned it into this adaptive notification area yes
it protrudes slightly more into the screen but visually I think this looks a lot nicer as for
the functionality do you know what this is more than just a gimmick of course it's always easy to
be sucked into the Apple event hype thinking this little island is going to change my life but it's
not bad at the moment it is quite limited so not all apps support or use this area yet but the ones
that do do it really well things like face ID now show up at the top incoming calls also show here
and these dynamically change the width to the pill and there are loads more that I found as
well things like screen recording timers music charging and even airdropping files they all
take advantage of this little area returning to a phone call while using another app is
easier as well and I imagine over time more and more apps will integrate here we'll see things
that we didn't even realize that we needed so although this little notification area shouldn't
be the main reason to buy a 14 pro it's a nice feature to have and makes using the iPhone that
a little bit easier on a day-to-day basis another thing to mention about the screen is the bump up
in brightness this now maxes out at 2 000 nits side by side with last year's 13 Pro it's hard
to see the difference but is when you take it outside that you really notice it the screen is
still pretty reflective so in direct sunlight you're going to struggle to see what's on the
screen but generally speaking the brighter screen really does help and we've obviously got the pro
motion display so the 120 hertz adaptive screen so scrolling through apps and pages are really smooth
oh and if you're wondering what screen protector that I'm using this is the Spigen easy fit I'll
actually link to that below so as I mentioned I've gone for the pro Max this year and when it comes
to the size and portability there's definitely some pros and cons over the normal Pro the
advantage is the screen is bigger so perfect for editing photos or watching videos or playing games
but it also has a bigger battery so less worries about charging it but if you've got smaller hands
or you struggle to use one one-handed it can be a problem so for example trying to tap the
dynamic Island to answer a call you're probably going to need two hands to use it comfortably
for me the pros do outweigh the cons now I don't mind a slightly larger phone if it means I can
enjoy editing or watching content on here and not really worry about the battery life but if
I'm being honest I have picked up my wife's 14 pro a couple of times and questioned whether I should
have gone smaller but overall I am happy with the 14 pro Max now this isn't a secret but I do use
an iPhone to record all of the videos for this Channel and that's the one and only reason that
I upgrade every single year I want the best camera that I can get from an iPhone so the fact that the
cameras have been upgraded once again is a huge Advantage for me but do they make that much of a
difference well starting with video I shoot in 4k 30 although it will do up to 4K 60 and I can tell
you now that within the first few minutes of using it I could tell this was noticeably better quality
than the 13 Pro it's brighter less noisy and definitely has a bump up in overall video quality
last week's video on the channel the Sony headset review well that was filmed entirely on the 14 pro
Max everything before this video was then filmed on either the 13 Pro Max or the 13 mini and even
while editing this video I could see just how good the quality looked and that's filming inside
today's video is shot between the 14 pro and the 13 Pro and it still amazing me just how good the
iPhone footage is all of this camera capability packed into a mobile phone that's in your pocket
so that means if you want to create content which is something I often encourage you can use the
phone that's in your pocket and the iPhone 14 pro is a perfect phone for that well we now have
four focal lengths ranging from 0.5 up to three times and I'd say all four have seen a noticeable
upgrade in quality even the ultra wide lens looks a lot cleaner than what we've seen before
then there's the stabilization and the standard motion handling which is incredibly good you
could easily use the 14 pro without a gimbal while walking through town it is super smooth but last
weekend I had to try out the new action mode that we've seen recently added to the 14 pro and this
thing is ridiculous so what I did was I asked my son to run down the street and I would follow him
as best as I could firstly without the action mode on which is still very good bearing in mind I am
running sideways here while holding two phones to try and get that shot and now I've switched
over to action mode and started running again and considering how fast we're both running with
no gimbal this is effortlessly stable it's worth mentioning that it does reduce the resolution to
2.7 K instead of 4K but it's not really noticeable even showing the footage side by side here today
so I think if you need to make use of the action mode don't really worry about the resolution but
generally speaking the standard stabilization really is good enough and you don't really need
a gimbal so another advantage of the pro Max over the normal Pro is the larger battery you're going
to see a few extra hours now Apple say you'll get up to 29 hours of use but realistically I've seen
anywhere between 10 to 15 hours now that is more than enough of my daily needs and that includes
checking socials filming videos watching YouTube and replying to emails if I can make it through 15
hours a day without a charge I am happy with that I normally take it off charge when I wake up in
the morning around 7am and then I put it back on charge at 11 PM so I don't really need more than
that but the pro on the other hand that my wife uses is borderline flat by the late evening now
there is a reason I believe that I've managed to get a decent battery life out of mine and
that's because almost immediately I disabled the always-on display I know this is a new feature
this year but I just don't like it I found myself constantly looking over and getting distracted so
I can only assume this has helped slightly towards my battery I'm talking about charging it while you
green are very kindly sent me out one of these next sewed three-in-one fast Chargers and that's
capable of up to 140 Watts so it's similar to what I've used before with the MacBook Pro but
the bonus is it comes with three ports instead of just one so there's two USBC ports and one
use USB a port and this means I can charge up to three different devices at the same time and still
only use one plug socket I can see this being used in my kitchen or my living room where I might need
to charge my 16 inch MacBook Pro the iPhone 14 pro and anything else so here I'm using the USBC
cable to charge my PlayStation 5 controller it even comes with a PD 3.1 USBC Cable in the Box
it also looks a little bit more compact than the standard Apple plug which is nice plus it
has the u-green power dispenser system built in that is designed to adjust the power between all
of the connected devices essentially it protects the batteries from overheating I'll have a link
to this below if you want to check it out but it's definitely something that I'll be using to replace
three plugs in my room so I've talked about how I use the iPhone for creating my YouTube videos but
I've also taken all of my Instagram and Twitter photos with an iPhone as well I often shoot in
raw and then edit them in Lightroom mobile but this gives you an idea of what is capable from
just an iPhone and on the back we still have the three lenses we've got the ultra wide a wide and
a telephoto but we now have four different Zoom modes who have 0.5 1 2 and 3 but the biggest
change here is the fact that when shooting in Pro raw you can make use of the 48 megapixel camera I
have always been impressed with the iPhone camera but being able to shoot at 48 megapixels in raw
and then edit in Lightroom mobile is incredible the detail and the information stored in these
files take edits and pictures to a whole new level now of course you don't need to shoot in Pro raw
you can use the normal photo mode and you'll get some awesome photos from it but it's just going
to be a compressed photo oh and another thing the files are huge we're talking 15 to 20 times
bigger than the jpeg equivalent you won't want to be shooting every single photo in raw just
the ones you know need editing or correcting most of the photos I've taken float around the 50 to
80 megabytes so your space could very quickly fill up now I'm not sure if it's because the files are
so huge but when you take multiple photos I have noticed that the phone massively slows down so
let me show you a very quick example of the 13 Pro Max and the 14 pro Max both taking Pro Raw photos
and just for comparison the same again but both take in normal jpeg photos I'm not sure if this
can be improved on but hopefully we'll see this optimized by Apple via an update that's like
eight to nine second delay is painfully slow but the photos I have taken over the last few
weeks have been awesome it's easy to say these are better than what I could have taken on the 13 Pro
but I do feel this is more than just a placebo effect the images really are noticeably better
so if you're shooting loads of content in 4k and taking photos in Pro raw you're probably going to
need loads of storage and that is the main reason that I've gone for the one terabyte option it does
seem Overkill especially as I also use the two terabyte I cloud storage but it means I can take
as many photos and videos as I need without really worrying I would say if you were creating content
or you planned a film in 4k and take photos in Pro raw you'll probably want to go for at least the
512 gigabyte option one terabyte is too much for most but then if you think you're going to keep
the phone for the next two to three years it's probably worth upgrading now as you can never have
too much storage I think from a design and overall look perspective it's hard to get super excited
about the iPhone Pro Models as they've kind of looked the same for the last few years I do like
the new space black color I think in certain light this is really nice and it's still my favorite
choice but saying that I do hide it inside a case 99 of the time so it's almost irrelevant if
I wasn't using the case they're still band on the side still picks up loads of fingerprints you'll
end up wiping this down quite frequently and as for the case while I'm using the standard Apple
leather one it's not the cheapest out there and if I'm being honest the durability isn't great but it
looks nice and it fits really well it's obviously a shame to cover this phone up because it does
look nice out of the case but it's the best way to protect it and compare it very quickly to the 13
Pro Max well the main differences include the pill at the top or the dynamic Island they're
always on display two thousand nits of brightness and finally the improved cameras putting them side
by side you would struggle to tell them apart the new one is slightly darker in terms of the color
and the lenses are a little bit bigger but other than that they do look practically the same and
here's the 14 pro Max against the 14 pro again just to give you an idea of the size difference
between the two so I I think most of these new features that we've seen on the 14 pro are nice
to have but not one of them really make this a justifiable upgrade if you've already got a 13
Pro this feels more like a 13 Pro s rather than the whole new model this year and the
same could be said for the normal 14 but saying that if you want the best iPhone available right
now and you'll make use of those new features you cannot go wrong with the 14 pro the camera upgrade
alone will make a noticeable difference at any photo or video that you take so yeah overall I'm
really happy with the 14 pro Max and I'm looking forward to seeing what my future videos will look
like on the channel and whether you've noticed any Improvement already what do you think about
the quality in today's video now let me know if you've got an iPhone already or what features
you would like to see added next time to make you upgrade now drop a shot on iPhone in the comments
and I will give you a thumbs up for staying right till the end and if you did enjoy today's
video check out my iPhone 14 pro accessory video next as that covers the 10 best accessories you
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