hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and iPhone XS Max has been out for six
months and I've been using it as my main phone every day and so I wanted to go
over some of the issues that I've had with it or how its held up now first
thing you may notice right away is that I don't use a screen protector you'll
see there's nothing on there I also don't use a case normally now some
people might say that's crazy with a phone that expensive but that's really
what Apple care is about for me so I do pay for Apple care on here if I do crack
it it's not very expensive to replace and I prefer the feel of the phone now
as far as the screen holding up it does have some light scratches on it and the
reason I'm outside actually so you can hopefully see some of those scratches
because in this very bright light is where you can see them if you're indoors
you cannot see them at all there's some very very light scratches in here and
really down it around here and around the bottom otherwise you cannot see them
at all now as far as the back is concerned because it's got the white
back you really can't see any scratches whatsoever and there's no scratches at
all around the lens or on the lens so it seems to be holding up really well as
far as that goes now the stainless steel is where it's
going to scratch the most so if we look around there you'll see that in this
bright sunlight it does have some scuffs and scratches on it
now you could polish this out since it is stainless steel but overall it's
holding up pretty well and this is just from normal used it's kind of like an
old iPod so you could use some toothpaste even to polish this out and
maybe I'll do a video on that and see if we can get some of these scratches out
so you'll see it is fairly heavily scratched but you can't see this in
normal light you actually have to have some light to see this you really won't
see it unless you're and I'm very very bright or well-lit environment so it
looks pretty good overall as far as its durability there's no dents or anything
and I haven't dropped it at all either then later that day I dropped my phone
for the very first time unfortunately it rolled down a hill and into water when I
was taking a photo for my iOS 12.2 beta 6 video and as you might have guessed
there's the iPhone but I'll show you exactly what happened at the end of the
video around the 6 minute mark let's go ahead and unlock it and face
unlock seems to be getting better it seems to be faster than it was in Prior
updates and everything this is actually running iOS 12.2 it's got beta 5 on it
right now by the time you're watching this beta 6 could be how or the final
could be out but either way it's been improved it seems to be holding up well
and in doing all of those betas and all the different videos this actually has
really good battery life I'm getting about eight to nine hours of screen on
time and the battery durability is quite good and some people say you don't use
your phone a lot I actually do use it quite a bit you'll see the battery
health is a hundred percent I think I've got about a hundred cycles on the
battery at this point and overall it's holding up well now as far as durability
over time someone was asking me does this phone creak if I twist it ever so
slightly not really there might be a slight creak from time to time but not
really you won't really get that creak like you do with some of the older
iPhones maybe the iPhone eight or seven I think in particular is where the Creek
was that was an aluminium backed foam this is actually stainless steel so it's
a little more rigid and I don't think it's going to have that issue now as far
as the speakers are concerned sometimes they do crack overtime and they don't
really sound clear they have a little crackling sound this particular device
doesn't have that issue so thankfully I have no issues with the speakers here or
here they neither of them have any issues and they sound just as good as
they did when I first got the phone so everything seems to be holding up well
as far as durability goes now the camera is something that continues to impress
in fact I am recording this right now with an iPhone XR but it's basically
the same video camera that we have here it's super fast and as long as you have
the right light it looks just as good as any of the professional cameras out
there only a trained eye will be able to tell the difference and in fact this is
going to look a little bit sharper than most because it does over sharpen and it
brightens in in darkens areas in real time so that's why this looks so good
it's because it's doing all of this work now right here you might see its blown
out a little bit that's the difference between this and a Cinema Camera so it
looks pretty good overall in the photos from it I continue to use in my videos
and the video from it as well so I have really really high expectations even for
the neck immersion because this cameras
phenomenal so I can't wait to see what they do next
one issue that continually plagues this device though is LTE issues and you'll
see here I have two bars of t-mobile and while that's usually not a problem
normally my LTE issues are more along the lines of things not loading maybe
I'll go to Twitter and try and load an image from a wallpaper or maybe I'll go
to a different website it won't load then I'll have to go here turn on
airplane mode turn it back off and everything will reconnect I have the
same issue when it's on Wi-Fi sometimes not so much with that more so with LTE
but a lot of people have said they've had the same issues and that continues
to be an issue and hopefully Apple will fix that in the future and finally the
software actually software's pretty stable I haven't had any issues with it
whatsoever I haven't had any crashes recently or anything and it's been
really good especially with the newer updates apps are opening nice and fast
if I want to switch between apps I can do that no problem maybe go to going to
Twitter and see it loads okay sometimes this app in particular loads a little
bit slow that loads fast most of the time things like the App Store seem to
work fine for me and everything's nice and smooth so I really have no issues
and I definitely recommend it six months and of course we're going to see iOS 13
on this or whatever the next version is going to be called and that will be
supported on this device and probably a this device will support years and years
of updates just like they do with the iPhone 5s so hopefully this will last
for years I think it will durability wise and if you have Apple care on it
you have nothing to worry about of course we will see new hardware
probably around September and it will make this one a year older and a little
bit cheaper and you still can get deals on this or the XR or different devices
as well so here is where I actually drop my phone now I wanted to show you this
perspective to give you an idea of how far it is so from the top of this right
here all the way down into the water over there let me show you what I mean
so the photo that I took was right on this corner here
I had it sitting on top of an iPad and then the phone was right here so you
could actually see it with some Knights depth-of-field behind it right in here
now this is the drop it fell off of here after the wind blew and knocked it down
it fell off of here rolled down there picked up some speed and went right into
the water now we're down toward the water and you'll see it's kind of a
cliff down here so it came off the end and tumbled right into the water right
down in there so I had to get down in there and the water is only a couple
feet deep there but you have to get down there and to give you an idea it fell
from way up there so it did pretty well considering it when all of this distance
picked up speed and then fell right into the water now after all of that my phone
works just fine it unlocks fine there's no cracks whatsoever I couldn't find any
there was a little bit of water in the speaker and the microphone so I had to
blow that out with some air and it's fine I took my sim card out of it for a
little while and just let it sit overnight it's fine and thankfully it's
okay but I do have AppleCare so I did pay for Apple Care Plus so if I do need
to get it replaced I can do that very inexpensively
but it seems to hold up pretty well from such a far drop all the way down there
into the water it was kind of unbelievable that it actually picked up
speed as it was rolling down the hill and went into the water I thought it was
gonna stop at some of these trees in here but it just didn't let me know your
thoughts in the comments below of course I'll link this wallpaper in the
description below as I always do if you haven't subscribed already please
subscribe and like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next
time