hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech an iPhone 13 Pro Max has been my main phone for the past nine
months I swap back and forth sometimes between the 13 pro and pro Max and I find that the 13
Pro Max is the most comfortable for me and so I keep coming back to it so I wanted to share the
overall durability scratches battery health battery life and more and talk about iOS and
how that's progressed and acted on this device as well now the first thing is durability the
phone being stainless steel and that I don't use a case is actually held up really well I
know a lot of people say well you could just use a case but I prefer the feel of the phone without
a case and so I typically use it this way I've used every iPhone since the first iPhone 100 of
the time or most of the time without a case with the exception of slip cases and a few skins that
I've had over the years on the phones but most of the time I don't use a case and you'll see
the stainless steel is actually held up really well over nine months so there's a few scratches
here and there on the bottom of the phone but it's very minimal and depending on the light you don't
even see it so most of the time you don't see anything now using the phone like this setting
it down on soft surfaces such as this tabletop there's really nowhere sometimes there was wear
on previous phones down at the bottom but it hasn't worn at all the glass or sapphire glass
over the camera lenses is held up well it does seem to get a little bit of dirt or something
along the edges here and that's very difficult to remove but it doesn't affect the camera quality
and it seems pretty well as far as the overall scratch resistance it's got none on it now the
glass is a different story somehow quite some time ago I did get a bunch of scratches on it
on the outside edge here so if I tilt it into the right light you'll see those different scratches
quite a few along the outside edge and down around the corner however I don't really have any other
scratches elsewhere one small one there and on the sides I think when I was filming outside I
actually tapped it on screws that were on a tabletop so it it hit that or nails and
actually scratched up the phone however I've had zero scratches before that or after that so that
was a bit of a mistake last year I dropped my phone off the table and scratched it up but it
hasn't cracked or anything and of course I could have this replaced under Apple Care and I may do
that since I do have AppleCare but typically Apple Care is my case now if I do use a case it's pretty
rare but I use an apple case most of the time maybe if I go to the beach I'll throw a screen
protector on here because sand is incredibly abrasive and then I'll just throw a case on it
if I go jet skiing I typically put a waterproof case on it that sound that completely seals if
I go out on my Seadoo but typically I'll throw it on this if I need a little extra grip but I
have no issues gripping the phone whatsoever so wrapping my fingers around it is no problem and I
do find that sometimes I like to go back and forth between the 13 pro and pro Max but I always end up
going back to the larger phone as it has different advantages such as battery life if we take a look
at the battery how elf we'll go into settings then we'll go over to battery let me flip this to dark
mode here go to battery and then battery health you'll see I'm at 100 percent now I charge this
every single night like I said it's my main phone I'm not getting good battery health because I'm
swapping phones constantly maybe for a few weeks when I was testing things like the 13 Pro I've
switched to it but most of the time I've used the 13 Pro Max and 100 battery health is quite
good and you can see here with the app coconut battery on my Mac it shows the actual battery
Cycles there is a way that you can use a shortcut to pull this out of your settings as well but it's
easier using coconut batteries so you can see the amount of cycles and this is charged every single
night I put it on a wireless charger on magsafe compatible wireless charger and then in my car
it's on a regular charger other than that I don't do anything special if it gets low I plug it in
I pay no attention whatsoever to the battery and keeping it out of a case keeps it nice and cool so
that's probably part of the extended battery health here but most of the time I tell people
ignore the battery health it's going to degrade over time and I'm surprised it hasn't dropped yet
but either way it will drop eventually as that's only natural now aside from battery health my
battery life is actually okay considering that I'm running betas 99 of the time when a public version
comes out and there's a little break that's when I'm running the regular version but if
anything should hit the battery harder it would be betas so you'll see here I have two hours and 19
minutes of screen on time 4 hours and 23 minutes of screen off time and used about 50 percent of my
battery meaning that it would cycle more often than other people's batteries unless you're a
really heavy user now with betas it's going to be poor battery life but when I wasn't running
betas or I was running very stable versions I was easily getting through the day with 50 to
60 percent of my battery life left at the end of the day with regular use so it seems to hold up
really well it's got the best battery life of almost any phone out there any iPhone for sure
and I have no issues whatsoever with that as far as the display the display is one of the best ones
out there it's got great viewing angles it goes incredibly bright especially for HDR content and
maybe there's only one out there that might be a little bit better such as the s22 ultra and
this display is just super smooth whether you're scrolling through settings or different websites
maybe Apple everything's just super smooth like you would expect at 120 hertz so definitely it's
something that you get used to and it's hard to go back to a display that doesn't have it once
you've already had it as far as pwm I've had no concerns especially with the 13 Pro Max series
and the reason for that is many people believe it has DC dimming meaning that anything above
50 brightness it will hold that brightness without flashing the display faster or slower with pwm pwm
or pulse width modulation is something I mentioned in a lot of my reviews because it's bothered my
eyes for quite some time however the high rate of pwm on this display flashing faster or slower to
make it appear brighter or dimmer or more dim is something that doesn't bother me at all on this
display so they've done a great job with that and if you're someone that's sensitive to it I would
definitely try out a 13 Pro or Pro Max as they don't seem to bother my eyes at all unless you're
one of the most sensitive people to it it would probably be great for you I've had zero issues
with green tint or red tint on this particular device whether that's at super low brightnesses
or high brightnesses anything else I've never seen green tin on this and it seems to be either
fixed with an update or apple got its displays calibrated properly this time around some other
iPhone 13s may have it as displays where subparent had some component changes with Boe with iPhone 13
and 13 mini you may see some green tint there but with on the pro and pro max phones it doesn't seem
to be an issue 4K HDR footage on YouTube or other websites or applezone TV app are phenomenal so if
I go to one of my videos you can see here's one one of my videos in 4k hdr on YouTube and you've
got all the way up to 4K HDR even though the display isn't in HDR however if we take a look
at it it's just super bright brighter than this video can show and we're only at half brightness
that's because of how bright this display is and so it looks great for all of that content
so one of the best displays out there for sure and it's super bright and bright enough to be easily
visible in sunlight so no issues there of course the cameras are phenomenal as well in fact that
last video in HDR was filmed with an iPhone 13 Pro Camera these cameras I often use in fact I use the
13 Pro cameras which are the exact same thing for videos on the weekend when I do follow-ups in HDR
the past few I've actually just used this camera because it does such a great job and you just hit
the record button there's nothing to do you just hit the button and go ahead and use the camera
it's super simple and looks great there's not a whole lot of configuring and the overall quality
of it turns out great enough that many many people compliment it even if I'm using better cameras
they complement this camera over that in low light it's pretty good it's not going to be as good as
an SLR but portrait modes and everything else have improved and they've been really great speakers
over time have stayed nice and loud and reception is probably the area where it's varied the most
depending on iOS updates with overall reception I have T-Mobile it's been pretty good with iOS 16.
there's been variants of iOS 15 such as iOS 15.5 where reception has been pretty terrible switching
between 4G and 5G and then just different cell towers seems to be very problematic for some I
know with iOS 15.5 sometimes people have to reboot their phones just so that it will work again so it
looks like they've fixed it in iOS 16 but with these being Qualcomm modems I wouldn't expect
that the antennas seem to be fined reception overall seems to be okay but sometimes it just
doesn't work properly and so as far as using the iPhone 13 Pro Max over that amount of time it's
definitely the best iPhone I've ever used with the exception of using betas but those are more
buggy and have different issues but generally if you push the software aside as Apple gets
this to be better and better the hardware is the best hardware apples ever made and it's going to
be hard to top with an iPhone 14 pro and pro Max getting rid of the Notch and maybe some additional
features with upgraded cameras of course will make things better but this is a phenomenal phone and I
still highly recommend it to people however at this point I think I would wait for the iPhone
14 unless you can get a phenomenal deal on this as we're only a few months out typically in September
we'll see the new models and we expect them to look something like this as these are models I
showed in a different video where the camera module will be even bigger we'll also have a
new hole punch and pill design display but everything else should be fairly similar so
maybe a different chipset that's a little faster and we'll have to wait and see but really at
this point I'd probably wait for that unless you can get an amazing deal on the 13 Pro Max either
way I still highly recommend it and think it's one of the best phones Apple's ever made and of
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