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I've been using the iPhone 14 pro Max for a week now and I've been really
trying to think of how I can explain this year's iPhone in one sense and I
think I finally got it down the 14 pro Max is the flagship iPhone model that
was chosen by Apple to deliver all of the super late features that people have
been begging for for years and let me tell you right now Apple nailed it and
not only that but they've masterfully refined every bit of the iPhone into
their Masterpiece with all of the aspects of the iPhone like the design
the display the performance the software the battery life and of course the
cameras finally being refined into what Apple has been imagining for years so
the question I'm gonna try to answer in this review is whether Apple's mastering
of features and this iPhone is worth upgrading to despite speculation that
next year's iPhone 15 Pro will get USBC among other features in my answer might
just surprise you
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time with fancy music and b-roll let's get right down to business and talk
about the notch which people have wanted Apple to get rid of ever since the
iPhone 10 and they finally delivered or have they Apple's Dynamic Island took
the Internet by storm when they surprised everyone with it at their
Apple event even convincing some people to upgrade for that feature alone but it
seems like the sentiment has shifted a bit once users actually started using it
some people are complaining that you can see the individual cutouts when it's in
direct sunlight and in my honest opinion I don't think this matters or negatively
impacts the experience at all others are complaining that it's not as useful or
active as Apple made it look in their marketing well duh it's marketing and of
course with regular use the dynamic Island won't be used all the time but
even after only one week I've already found that it makes using my iPhone more
convenient first off I love how fluid and smooth the animation are like when
face ID authenticates and for the first time ever I can see timers counting down
at all times the dynamic Island also fixed the number one thing that I hated
on my iPhone the low battery notification that used to fill up your
entire display now simply pops up in the island not only that but I've actually
noticed myself using it for Apple music allowing me to jump straight into the
music app by tapping the island instead of having to go through my app switcher
to find it and of course you can tap and hold to bring up the pop-up however I
wish Apple switched the controls to this one tap brings up the pop-up and a
second tab opens the app no more tap and hold please but what a lot of people are
misunderstanding about the island is that it's a brand new feature and it's
gonna take a few months before we really start seeing it become incredibly useful
as more third-party developers add support for things like live activities
for sports games in the latest IOS 16 beta or even the cool little Tamagotchi
feature for the Reddit app Apollo so my point of view is that Apple did
absolutely solid work on the Island's Hardware itself finally deleting the
Notch and replacing it with something that feels fresh fluid actually useful
and ready for developers to take on so just give it some time but what really
impressed me was that Apple not only redesigned the speaker Grille to be
three times thinner but they've greatly improved the speakers All Around Just
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not only are the speakers much louder than before but the quality got better
in every aspect including the bass mids and the highs where they're now more
soft and clear and even better the dynamic range of frequencies is now
wider so you can make out different instruments or Tunes where you couldn't
before so this is a big deal for me now moving on I've got to cover the number
one thing that people will notice right away and that's the always-on display
after so many years of this feature being missing Apple has finally added it
but unfortunately a lot of people are complaining about it being too bright so
bright that they keep thinking the display is on when it's not and to that
my reply is that they're simply just not used to it give it a week or two you and
it'll feel like second nature and honestly this is the first always on
display I've ever seen that still retains your wallpaper in the background
instead of being completely black so it's totally unique to Apple but the
downside with that is that people are noticing worse battery life with this on
and in my personal use I haven't really noticed a huge drop in battery life
probably because I don't like using the auto brightness setting which is the
only way to experience the new 2000 nits of brightness Outdoors but in reality
Apple should probably just give us the option to dim down the always on display
brightness to help save battery life instead of being forced to completely
turn it off but as far as the always-on display itself I absolutely love it
since I no longer forget about notifications that popped up for a
couple of seconds before the display shuts off like what happened previously
now they are always there so I can't miss them the only problem with it right
now is that you have to tap on the display once before you can tap into a
notification I really just wish Apple would make it so you could tap the
notification straight from the always on display and it'll authenticate with base
ID open it up and go straight into that app so I hope Apple changes that but on
the plus side Apple has made unlocking your iPhone more convenient than ever
before by adding swipe to wake so all you have to do is swipe out from the
bottom to instantly authenticate with face ID and unlock the phone which is a
major game changer for ease of use now moving on to the performance not that
much has changed in terms of the raw power of the a16 bionic chip so nobody
should be upgrading for that but there are some major upgrade worthy changes
this year like the new Snapdragon x65 modem which is not only quite a bit
faster than the previous x60 but it also runs cooler which leads to less heat
which is the other major change for the last couple of years display dimming has
been a very annoying issue on the pro iPhones and this year Apple has finally
improved the cooling performance by adding this new thermal tape which helps
spread some of the heat away from the chip faster than before which you can
visually see in this thermal camera comparison and because of that display
dimming has been significantly improved this year now it's not completely gone
like when stress testing the graphics but it's much better than it was before
staying at a consistently higher brightness level when dimmed down so
it's not instantly noticeable and annoying like before now before I show
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even able to play Call of Duty mobile at 100 brightness with no dimming
whatsoever which was honestly shocking since the iPhone 13 Pro Max would dim
down in less than a minute in this scenario so this change makes the Iphone
experience so much better and now before I get into some of the downsides because
yes there are downsides we've got to talk about the cameras now on the
surface it seems like not that much has changed with the main camera even though
it's the biggest jump in megapixels and sensor size we've ever had in an iPhone
and that's because for some reason the new 48 megapixel camera still defaults
to shooting 12 megapixel photos by combining or bidding 4 pixels into one
and because of that you can't really see a big difference between the 14 pro and
13 Pro's main cameras at least in the daytime now in the night time you can
clearly see that the 14 pro is better because the larger sensor helps it
gather more light and you can easily say the same thing for all of the other
cameras the ultra wide the telephoto the selfie camera all of them have been
improved in terms of low light and night mode photos which by itself could
convince some people to upgrade and by the way each of those other cameras have
no noticeable improvements in the daytime as well especially the ultra
wide and selfie cameras which now look very sharp and because of those changes
the 14 pro has now leapfrogged over the Samsung Galaxy s22 Ultra and z-fold 4 in
terms of camera quality like we showed you in our unbiased camera comparison
whereas the 13 Pro got killed by the two just last month and part of the reason
why the 14 pro is now so good is of course the new 48 megapixel Pro Rock
camera mode which not only shoots at full 48 megapixel resolution but also
with 16 bit colors and Apple's Auto processing which is great now while some
people have shown absolutely mind-blowing 48 megapixel Pro raw edits
online we kept things simple by comparing a couple of photos like this
one which clearly shows the iPhone's 48 megapixel sensor beating out Samsung's
50 and 108 megapixel sensors on their more expensive Flagship phones and
comparing it to the 13 Pro Max there was a massive difference with the new level
of detail being easily noticeable even on a smartphone display and some people
got creative online showing off some absolutely stunning photos including
this one on the macramers forums showing off the Milky Way with a user being
blown away by the maximum ISO of 12 768 saying that these iPhone photos
finally look like a DSLR image however there are a couple of problems first of
all apple is forcing you to shoot in Pro raw in order to take 48 megapixel photos
and those photos take a lot of storage on average between 50 and 75 megabytes
and unfortunately Apple doesn't allow you to shoot 48 megapixel photos using
more compressed formats like heic or jpeg you can't even convert them on your
iPhone itself so it's really unfortunate that Apple did this and making things
worse the 14 pro still has the same lightning Port as before which means
that it still only supports USB 2.0 transfer speeds but since I prefer using
airdrop for transferring photos I decided to test out how long it'll take
to airdrop 20 Pro Raw photos to my Mac and with airdrop it took 36 seconds from
start to finish which honestly isn't that bad and wouldn't ruin my day even
if it was a hundred of these Pro Raw photos taking three minutes to transfer
I'd rather do that than grab a cable anyway the bigger problem is when you
want to back up your entire iPhone to a Mac and it takes hours and hours on end
that's where lightning 2.0 is terrible and USBC would have solved this
instantly so hopefully Apple gives that to us next year or maybe even
Thunderbolt but as far as the 48 megapixel sensor it's really unfortunate
that we're forced to use prores and even worse there's no 8K video recording
which would be totally doable on this sensor but Apple sadly chose to leave it
out this year for whatever reason but either way Apple still easily defeats
every other smartphone brand in terms of video recording like the new action mode
that's not only more smooth and sharper than Samsung's steady cam but it also
crops in way less making it far superior as well as Apple's cinematic mode that
now supports 4K resolution making it absolutely destroy the other two Samsung
flat ships so personally I finally think that I'm going to start using cinematic
mode for regular use whenever I have a subject to record so for the cameras I'm
pleasantly surprised with all aspects except for Apple's portrait cutouts that
still have some issues and the dynamic range not being as great as some of the
competitors especially for the ultra wide camera now with all that said I've
got to add in some of the downsides Apple forced our hand in terms of
removing this SIM card slot just so they could move the industry forward which is
cool and all but it makes it more difficult for us buyers to travel on top
of that we still don't have Wi-Fi 6E on the 14 pro which is kind of ridiculous
in 2022 and to think that I was about to splurge on a Wi-Fi 6E router at home
because of the leaks and rumors and I'm also a bit disappointed that the display
bezels didn't really get that much thinner and of course it really ticks me
off that Apple didn't add 8K video recording When the 48 megapixel sensor
easily supports it but other than that I think the iPhone camera system is the
most refined it's ever been as well as their display quality which has
seemingly hit Peak refinement along with the Best in Class always on display mode
the fastest chip available in any smartphone with minimal dimming this
time the most refined Notch that's actually useful and speaker equality
that is so good I'm shocked that it's coming from a smartphone so that makes
this the most refined iPhone ever the only question is should you actually
upgrade to it or wait just one more year for the 15 Pro which will likely get
USBC and a five times zoom camera well to be completely honest if you're
upgrading from an iPhone 11 Pro or older you're gonna experience a massive
difference from the display quality and the cameras to the top tier Max save
charging system and cellular performance and even if you're upgrading from the 12
Pro I'd argue that there are still some big improvements you'll notice
particularly in terms of fixing the display dimming issues the cameras and
the battery life and yes I know that USBC is going to be a nice upgrade but
I've realized that I almost exclusively charge using macsafe and my MacBook Pro
at home now uses Max safe as well so I wouldn't be able to use one USBC cable
to charge both of them anyway so in my case USBC won't really change that much
and yes I'm excited for the five times telephoto camera which is currently in
the rumor cycle but I rarely take far range telephoto Zoom photos anyway so I
could live without it and if you can agree with me on that and you have an
older iPhone then I'd say that this year is finally the perfect year to upgrade
because the new Dynamic Island and the always on display are fresh differences
you'll experience daily as well as the fact that I'm a little bit biased
towards the new space black color which I've been asking for for years now but
with that said hopefully you enjoyed this one week review of the 14 pro Max
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