hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the iPhone 11 pro max has been out for
some time now about five months or longer depending on when you're watching
this video and I wanted to talk about how its durability has been because I
don't use a case or a screen protector and of course you could say well why
don't you just use a case in screen protector but there's a couple of
reasons for that one of them is I like the feel of the phone without a case so
I like the texture on the back and I also like the screen without a screen
protector I think it adds to the experience when you don't use a screen
protector as opposed to using a screen protector however because this class
seems to be well not as good as previous versions I would say I sort of wish I
put a screen protector on here and I'll talk more about that in just a moment
but other than that I don't drop my phone I have never dropped this phone on
any hard surface and I take care of my phones very well I only put them on
desks and things like this as well as maybe a table or maybe the arm of pouch
or something along those lines because I'm just very careful with my phones if
it's not there it's in my pocket or it's on a wireless charger in my car or in my
home next to my bed so those are the only places it's usually set down and
I'm very careful where I put it I also don't put my phone facedown much of the
time because it's really only for videos and photos like this and I make sure the
surface is nice and clean so really I don't worry about scratching too much
and I haven't had too many issues in the past but this one could be a little bit
better now the first thing is the stainless steel outside frame it's held
up really well and it tends to not show many scratches even if it does have some
scratches compared to say some of the other ones because it's stainless steel
it's very hard and maybe if you have a silver one it would show more scratches
I know I'm the XS Max it would show a little bit more and it does have a few
scratches that you can see in the correct light but in this light you
probably don't see anything I don't see anything either right now and you will
have a few right here but not too many and this this coating or whatever Apple
has on the frame holds up really well the back glass because it's textured
seems to hold up incredibly well some people I have seen
have some rubbing down here at the bottom and that used to be really
typical of the aluminum phones if you had a Space Gray iPhone 6s plus I'll
show you in a moment you would get some rubbing down here where it would kind of
wear off and so this is holding up really well you might have a little bit
of that here but most of the time you don't notice it because of the textured
glass I also don't have any issues with the cameras so the cameras being set on
tables over and over there's no scratches on the lenses or anything and
it's holding up really well so without a case there's no problems with those no
scratches nothing interfering with taking good photos and video so I'm
really happy with that the area where I think it could use a little bit of work
is really the glass the glass is fine as far as feeling like glass and feeling
durable but it scratches it seems much easier than before and I've talked about
this in a separate video but the glass really has quite a few scratches on it
compared to a phone that's over four years old this iPhone 6s plus of course
this is going to have scratches on it was used the same way with and without a
case it was used by family members and I'll show you the glass in a moment it
does have more scratches on the 6s plus but quite a few on the 11pro Maxx I
would imagine if this is four years old it's going to have an unusable amount of
scratches on there where you would need to replace the display now the frame
like I said before on a 6s plus you can see down here in the bottom right there
is a little bit of where just from setting it on a table that's pretty
typical of the aluminum ones if you're not using a case and there's a little
bit of color changes and things like that if it had a case around it or a
skin so that's not too much of a concern on the 11pro max it's holding up well
there but if we take a look at the actual display let me wipe this off
first so we can see it and then brighten the lights and I'll clean this off a
little bit and this is not an advertisement but a lot of you asked
what I use and I use this stuff called eye clear and Apple use this originally
in the Apple stores years ago when Steve Jobs was still around and this stuff is
really good it puts kind of a film on the phone and I still use it to this day
I'll leave a link in the description it will be an affiliate link but this is
not a paid advertisement or anything it's just I get the question all the
time what do I use so I use this and it comes with a nice microphone
cloth so I'll wipe it down so you can see it without any fingerprints let's go
ahead and do that and there we go and let's turn the lights up so that we can
actually maybe see some of these it takes a really bright light along the
lines of sunlight in order to show the scratches now I have the lights turned
way up and there are a lot of scratches on here particularly in the center and I
can only assume they're from putting the phone in my pocket I don't really know
what they're from I don't ever use anything near the phone it doesn't go in
this pocket with keys or anything like that it's the only thing in my pocket
and there's scratches across the display all over the place just from normal use
now if I bring in the 6s plus to compare like I said it has a ton of scratches as
well let me wipe this off a little bit more it's got some fingerprints still
but this one has a ton of scratches as well but the amount compared to what we
have in five months first four years I'm surprised how many there are on a newer
display even even though this one has more surprise that only after five
months I have this many scratches on it so I really wish I could get the screen
replaced but unfortunately Apple won't replace it unless it's damaged so I'm
not going to damage the display so they can replace it so maybe if it does get
cracked I'll have it replaced but otherwise I just have to deal with the
scratches and then if I do get another one I'll get a screen protector and so
the durability of the phone is great otherwise I've had no issues with the
speakers no issues with anything else reception is kind of software-based at
this point your firmware based and the battery's holding up really well you'll
see my battery health is at 100% and I charged this wirelessly all night long
or if it's in my car it's charged wirelessly I rarely use a plug for
charging this and if I do use one it's usually my macbook pro charger that's
about 98 watts it will really only go up to a certain amount 18 or 28 watts and
it won't go over that but I rarely fast charge it unless I'm at a show such as
CES where I really need to get some more power on the go otherwise it's always
wireless charging at about 7.5 watts no issues and it's at 100% battery health
but durability overall seems to be okay except the display it's
just as well as any of the others but the XS Max lasted me a lot longer than
this without scratches so I'm not sure what's going on with that and I've never
cracked a screen so maybe I will in the future but just using this I've never
cracked a display or anything like that I've only had one water damaged after it
fell into water in a lake so other than that it's had no issues and that was my
XS Max my 11 Pro Max is holding up well and I would love to hear from you
if you have an 11 11 Pro or 11 Pro max or even your older phone what do you
have and how is it holding up for you do you use a screen protector in a case or
if you don't how's the scratches on it I would love to hear from you and also if
you use a screen protector which one do you think is the best let me know in the
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this is Aaron I'll see you next time