now if you are coming from the 13 pro max and you're thinking about picking up the
14 pro max well this video is to hopefully enlighten you a little bit to the actual real
upgrades we're getting with this model because i don't think it's worth it we're hardly getting
anything so to start out i'll go over what i think is the best upgrade we do get with the 14 pro
max model and the other models too the pro model because the screen is now brighter
now i had an issue with my 13 pro that when i'd use it out in the heat of summer
and even sometimes in winter you're using it a lot you're recording footage say 4k footage or
video or you're just using the screen it would dim down on me to the point as you can see here
where you basically cannot use the phone i've got to stop using it let it cool down
the great news is we are finally getting past that problem of the overheating and the dimming screen
the 14 pro screen can pump out a really high 2 000 nets and in use in daytime you can see in
the sun you can see it and it will maintain it for a very very long time it's only when you start to
record a lot of video use the action mode or 4k cinematic will eventually start to overheat and
dim down but even as i was recording that shot there it was getting incredibly hot but it was
pumping out that brightness so that's good so the display is an upgrade then we get always on
display now always on display is something they could actually implement and put it of course
here on the 14 pro sorry the 13 pro max and the 13 pro because they're using oled screen so
it's a software thing really but apple's idea the implementation of an always-on display to my eyes
is wrong so what they do is they illuminate the whole screen is on it's basically just a very
dim screen which is still too bright at night and it uses a lot of energy because of this now other
manufacturers will just put the time the date and your notifications it'll move around the screen
slowly and it consumes hardly any energy the impact on your battery is not so bad but with the
14 pro the 14 pro max having that always on display has absolutely butchered slaughtered
my battery life here and it's so far using of course going to be worse i have to disable it
so then get about the same battery life as the 13 pro max so in that area it's not really an
upgrade then the dynamic island now you either love this or you hate it i'm i haven't formed
an opinion yet of it really i don't like it what i don't like is it's taking up more screen real
estate at the top the animations are nice yes sure it looks so pretty which i think most people will
go for but the problem is you're going to have to use it two-handed you can't use it one-handed
with a dynamic island so you're going to have to have your other hand to support it there at the
top when you use it which is slightly annoying the other is now they've changed the way the
notifications are with iso 16 and they're a little bit more troublesome to actually get
to and see they made that a little bit more difficult so let's talk about the cameras a
lot of people are really into social media great cameras must have the best cameras now
this is where i think most people are going to be very disappointed to me it's like apple went
along and just software wise over processed a little bit they tweaked up the exposure
they over sharpened they introduced more noise because i've done a bit of a comparison so here
we have a portrait shot from the 13 pro max it looks really nice and then here is the same
more or less scenario my daughter moves around a lot she's four years old but it just looks
like apple went and just increased the exposure they sharpened it up a little bit and look at the
the results i think it's actually worse so so far in my experience the photos are looking worse
than the 14 pro max and i've even done a bit of a low light control test here again look at the
noise introduced with the 14 pro max versus the 13 pro max i don't think this is better i think we're
kind of going backwards and i know it's a new phone and i know with firm firmware updates apple
is probably likely to correct this and improve things but is it two times better three times
better apple's marketing the fastest iphone yet the most pro iphone yet you get the idea a lot of
it most of it's just marketing hype now it still takes some amazing video quality so 4k video looks
really good and i did a camera comparison against some other top flagships from android and they
just couldn't match the video quality both selfie and rear cameras especially look really good very
smooth no jitter no jutter when you pan around and then the action mode this is new the action mode
i actually really do like so it's using a 2.8 k top resolution very aggressive electronic image
stabilization of course and compared to these other flagships dominated it absolutely killed
them so if you don't have an action cam but maybe for some reason you want to chase behind someone
on a bmx or their skateboard or whatever you can use the action mode so i do like that that is
okay two upgrades there now i'm pretty sure they could add the action mode to the 13 pro wouldn't
be a problem it's only software they could add the always-on display as well software again so really
not that much of an upgrade but we do have some areas that apple just seems to ignore like the
selfie photos they're either too cool the white balance or too warm where you have orange skin
i see this a lot of my photos just far too warm they don't seem to be addressing this issue at all
the other is the lens flare that you get with low light video and low light photos it's terrible it
basically ruins the footage there is a fix other brands now for years have been using zeiss optics
they've been using a special coating called the t-star coating it's it's on the uh vivo x
70 pro plus the xperia phones the new one from sony and the vivo x the vivo x80 pro plus now
it removes all of that well almost and apple need to do something about that they need to put that
coating on but they just seem to refuse to do that so there's a couple of areas they haven't really
improved upon we still don't have a kill all in the task manager you have to keep going swiping up
and kill all your apps off would be nice just to press one button small little software things do
remain and then don't get me started on the type c port because where is it it's in the ipads all
right so why can't they add it to the iphones it's just ridiculous if you need to transfer pro motion
video a huge amount we've got airdrop but imagine you need to transfer 100 gigabytes worth they're
very large files when you shoot 4k pro res if we had usb 3.2 type-c port high-speed data transfer
video out things like that that this supposed best top m flagship are missing out on basic features
that android has had for years and years like always on display they've finally got it they just
take their time about everything don't understand they could make the most amazing phone but just
hold back for marketing purposes for uh revenue generating speaking of which revenue generating
the difference between these two is minimal and their physical design they're basically the same
right but apple intentionally moves the camera module like they did from the 12 pro to the
13 pro you can't use your old case well i did actually i cut around where the camera module is
then i used my 12 pro case on my 13 pro but i think apple caught on to this and
they decided to move the power button down slightly so now the 13 pro cases will not
fit on the 14 pro now it's just a small minor thing but what bugs me is apple's all about
saving the environment now but look at the amount of waste they could cut down on if the same case
worked on what is essentially the exact same phone over three years they'll be saving a lot for the
environment right but of course they won't do that they want to sell more for revenue exactly why
they don't have the charger in the case it's about getting people to buy newer charges all right now
if you've already got one okay that is where it's good there if you've already got one i do
i understand that but there's a lot of decisions that they make that just puzzle me completely
they could make an absolute top fine but they hold back in some areas so the purpose of the video and
really what i'm getting at is if you've got a 13 pro max and you're thinking about the 14 pro max
or you've got the 14 pro i'm sorry 13 pro thinking about upgrading to the 14 honestly i wouldn't the
changes just like i've mentioned now they are so minimal one hardware major change okay the display
being a lot brighter cameras for now until we see some more firmware updates i think they're almost
backwards so that's not really an upgrade you've got the action mode the 4k cinematic mode that
you can see now from the sample still doesn't look perfect but if you need 4k cinematic okay that's
one area but those are software things apple could add but really it all boils down to the same exact
phone you buy this you're gonna go wow i just spent all that money for the same exact phone with
basically a brighter screen and a more ugly notch that's just simple facts so far unless firmware
updates really turn things around thanks a lot for watching this video i'll see you in the next one