it's been almost nine months since apple released the iphone 12 pro max and i
started using it and today i want to do a follow-up real
world review covering all the changes and fixes that
have happened in that time and believe me there are a lot of them
and cover what is keeping me using this device instead of a really great android
alternative and what's keeping me trapped
but with that new issues that have come up
and possibly defective issues with at least
my iphone and maybe yours as well some of these things have really surprised me
and i think they'll be great news for you guys
as well and i'm just gonna focus on real world things i'm gonna skip specs and
all of that so let's get started
and talk about the design
and the durability i honestly have been very
impressed i go caseless with my phones i do use
a wallet i've recently switched over to the moft one
which we didn't really do a review on but this thing is fantastic it works as
a stand it's easier to get your cards out it
fits one additional card compared to apples
i love this thing but even without it with this phone falling probably about
five to six times the edges look so clean i have one
bump on one corner and it's not even that noticeable one
thing that i've noticed is that the gold stainless steel coating
is much more durable than before i have very little
micro scratches and the same thing goes on the back this coating right here is
very durable that could also be the design the square edges that are helping
but overall i am very pleased and as far as the front
no cracks anything like that now i do have one crack a very unfortunate one
and it is right there on the main lens i think that was just really poor
luck and that is something that you can get swapped out by itself
you don't have to swap out the whole back but other than that
durability has been awesome and as far as the square edge design that was a
huge change for apple i still am really digging it the
amount of grip that you have even without a case
is really good the back is still slick but overall it feels great in the hand
and i don't regret the change coming from the previous round edge design and
since we touched on the cameras let's go ahead and talk about what has
changed when apple announced this phone they showed off the extra 2.5 x zoom
the sensor stabilization and people wanted to buy the larger size
because of the extra camera benefits that you couldn't get with the smaller
ones well
in our videos we showed off that the quality wasn't that much
better and there were other downsides for example
the extra sensor size causes warping for close-up photos and you can't focus as
closely that has been an issue for me and with
the telephoto lens the quality isn't that much better
and it also can't focus as closely so in this last nine months i really
haven't been using a telephoto camera as much as i did
with the iphone 11 and i'm doing portrait shots mainly with the main lens
now on top of that the competition has gotten so good
both with similarly priced phones and cheaper ones
where the quality looks great the software is consistent
and they have other features such as the telescopic cameras
where it can zoom in very close and still get insane quality photos
you can shoot 8k video that actually looks good now
and with the larger megapixel sensors you can get much more detail and good
lighting so because of that multiple times i've been tempted to just
go and switch to those if i'm traveling somewhere and i want to
get the best photos from a smartphone so overall i would just say
that based on this and the updates they made
i've just been a little bit disappointed and there's really not a big reason to
go with this higher end one and even limitations compared to
previous iphone and now let's talk about something that i'm just
really surprised by how much of a difference it made in my everyday
life with the new iphone 12 pro max and that is magsafe after nine months i
absolutely love it and that is one reason why i haven't switched over to
this because when you're traveling when you
have a charger when you have the car mount
it's just so convenient to be able to pop up your phone on your charger at
home like for example i have the three in one
pop it off if you want to grab it in bed pop it back on it charges
it works every time because it's aligned with that gives you the ability to snap
a wallet there and have everything in one pocket it's just been such a big
convenience to me that would be hard to switch to anything
else and it really makes a difference in convenience
day-to-day and now let's touch on probably the biggest
advertised feature with the new iphones another first for the iphone 12s and
that is
5g now right out of the gate the speeds were so much faster
than the previous iphones it was incredible and
also the reception was better so places like my church where i got pretty much
no reception or super slow speeds outside got much
faster honestly it has only gotten better speeds have gotten faster
in other areas where i didn't previously have coverage
with new updated 5g antennas and i'm talking about not high band
super fast speed that kind of goes away if you go around the corner i'm talking
about mid-banded low band rural areas have
better coverage and i think this is probably the same case
all across the us with all carriers after nine months
it's better given another year it's going to be even better now before we
cover the biggest issue that i have with the
new iphone specifically the 12 pro max that has not only been
irritating me like crazy last month but actually cost me money let's talk
about another new piece of hardware that has improved the iphone
within its lifespan that is the air tags now of course these things can be used
with um any iphone with older iphones as well but with the latest ones you get
the extra features such as the visual navigation
and i have to say these things really help apple's ecosystem and make it much
harder to go from an iphone and switch over to
something like a samsung even though i would like to
previously you had imessage you had the apple watch but
now with mac safe and air tags this phone is just
incredible they're cheap they work well i have a bunch of them i have them on
objects such as my boat so that if somebody steals it i can
actually find it's just hidden there i have them in my bags and the greatest
thing that happened lately was with the beta
ios 15 it will actually give you notifications
if you leave not only air tags so if you leave your keys
or something else your bag somewhere but also things like your ipad and other
apple accessories and
that just makes it so nice to use an
iphone compared to something else and now for the biggest
issue that is making me literally want to leave this phone
and just downgrade to an iphone 12 that is the display
and it's not really an issue with the display itself the display is beautiful
hdr video looks amazing on it manual brightness when you turn it all the way
up is great this is apple's best display but
my issue is with this largest display for example
this display gets really bright but if you start
gaming on it after not that long it will dim and if you're outside gaming or in a
bright room that can be an issue and that is actually something
that doesn't happen with the iphone 12 mini and it's much less of an issue with
the iphone 12. now i think that is probably because of
the display being much larger extra pixels and that means extra heat
and it is really becoming an issue especially in the last month
we're out here in summer now it's getting hotter and i'm having so many
issues for example when i'm driving in my truck
and it's a hotter day i have it set up on max if it's charging there
it's really nice to use but the screen will end up dimming
and it'll dim so much so that it gets kind of dark to see
and that's something that you wouldn't have with other phones
and then with that i was using it last weekend with my drone
and because of the sun and because it's plugged in it got so
hot and warm that the screen was so dim that i literally could barely see it
outside and i was flying in a remote area but i
did end up crashing my drone and the repair is about 400 bucks to get
that fixed and i've been flying drones for eight to
ten years i don't crash drones i'm very careful but the screen
just dimmed down my drone was in the air and i couldn't
see it and luckily i was able to recover it but
that is just such an annoying issue and it's just frustrating enough and it's
happening often enough now that i'm wondering
is the my iphone 12 pro max defective or maybe other people are having that
issue as well you guys let me know down in the comment
section and i think that's inexcusable in this age
where other phones are having um they're having graphite cooling
they're having vapor chamber cooling it's a non-issue with high-end phones
but iphone's most expensive phone is having this issue
much worse than their iphone 11 did and now for something that
really surprised me lately and that is longevity of
the battery i thought maybe my battery is going bad maybe that's why i was
getting so hot and dimming but i went into battery health and i'm
getting a solid 100 battery health whereas
this time last year my iphone 11 pro max was probably around 92 91 and then at
the one year mark when i
switched to this one it was at 88
and so far after nine months i'm still at a hundred
now that is because apple added that optimized charging feature which will
only charge it to eighty percent and it'll finish last 20 right before
you need it and this just proves that apple's
feature and update has really helped this latest
iphone now overall as you guys heard most things have been really positive
let me know your guys's thoughts if you're somebody that bought one of these
phones or if you're somebody that wants to buy one what your thoughts are
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