it's been two months since Apple released their iPhone 14 lineup and I
got my 14 pro Max and I love the phone it is amazing but there are certain
things that absolutely grind my gears and the thing is some of these can be
fixed by software While others are Hardware related that are bummers and
with some of these I've actually found workarounds that I'm going to be sharing
with you guys to help you out with that said let's Jump Right In now the first
one really hurts me and that is the fact that these screens seem to scratch a lot
easier than the iPhone 13s and the 12s even though all three of them had
ceramic shield now shortly after I got them I got one scratch then another and
I'm extremely careful with my phones and the screens now before you guys say you
should have a screen protector well I didn't have screen protectors with all
my previous phones and they seem to do better so I did a little research and so
many people are posting that these phones are scratching very quickly very
easily whereas their iPhone 13 12 lasted a year or two and looks better than a
new iPhone just after a couple of weeks and even worse some people were getting
scratched ones out of the box and other people replied saying yes I'm getting
the same thing now I don't know if Apple just changed how this glass is made
there was one post where even the back glass was scratched while having a crate
case on there uh maybe they cheapened out to have better profit margins I know
what's happening but because of that I actually bought AppleCare on this iPhone
when I never had before because I'm so careful I've never needed it I went
ahead and subscribed because I'm gonna have to be able to replace a screen down
the line most likely so I would say if you're buying a new one consider getting
a screen protector even if you really don't like them like I do now the second
one is display dimming now yes this has happened for years but this year Apple
said that they included a thermal system to keep the phone cooler now that is
true and the 14 pro Max does do a better job at it but it does still dim now with
the 14 pro which I'll also talk about in just a bit with another issue this thing
actually dims even more so than the regular 14. uh when I when we're doing
our tests when we're doing gaming I'm honestly really surprised by how much it
dims because of that powerful a16 processor the cooling system is
overwhelmed so that would recommend if you're on the fence to go for a 14 pro
now the third one is the magsafe charging speed now I'm somebody that
loves wireless charging I don't even have like the cable in my room to charge
up but in times where I do need a charge and we'll talk about battery life in a
bit when I pop it on the speed just isn't that great now when Apple launched
it we were so excited because we were finally going to get fast wireless
charging on the iPhone but in my insane charging comparison I found that their
15 watt magsafe actually wasn't that much faster than using a 7.5 watt
standard charger because it slows down to 6 Watts not long after you start
charging so even though C seems like it's a lot faster it's not and that's
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matter and with that you can just get like an ESR one if you're not going to
be waiting for it to charge but I would love them to maintain that faster speed
when you do need it to charge fast like for example you have OnePlus that can
charge your phone in 45 minutes when you need it but then at night it will charge
slower because you don't and it doesn't want to add the extra heat now with that
we have reverse wireless charging now this phone is capable of it but Apple
won't let us use it now I know that most of the time it is not something that's
needed but hear me out on this the hardware has been in the iPhone since
the iPhone 11 but was never turned on and the first and only accessory that
can use it is the maxafe battery pack that came out not long ago now if you
have the battery pack on your phone but you plug your lightning cable into the
phone itself not the pack well that'll actually charge your phone faster and
then it will reverse wirelessly charge the pack so you have the benefit of
having it there and both will charge up but other than that you can't use that
feature anywhere else now in the last two months I've had multiple situations
where it would be so nice to have that once my airpods were dead and I didn't
have access to a charger so I was out of luck and I was doing a bunch of stuff
outside without using my airpods now I would have loved it if I could just
place them on my iPhone and charge them now if you say that's because it is
inefficient well with Apple's battery pack that first limited to 5 Watts but
then nine months later they upped it because people weren't happy and it was
slow and you rather have the extra speed even if we had a 50 inefficiency in my
14 pro Max would lose 25 battery if you fully charge the airpods in the case but
in case of an emergency in about five minutes or so you can get an hour of
listening and that's enough to get you out of a bind and with that they already
added macsafe alignment to the case of the airpods now other times we're to
revive friends or my wife's dead phone if they needed to make a call or check
messages and be so nice to be able to you know plug it up charge charge up a
few percentages and check it or be able to charge other accessories like an
Apple Watch since they have small enough batteries where you don't have to drain
your phone that much I just wish that Apple didn't lock down all the great
Hardware with their software now the next one has been the lack of the Sim
slot now I wish Apple just kept it here in the states just like they did in
other countries at first I had issues with calls not coming in and errors but
after that it stopped now what I'm having is just the lack of ability to
quickly pull out a Sim put it into another phone that I'm testing or put it
into a tablet you have to transfer it it takes a lot longer you just don't want
to do it and with the 14 plus I had to go in and make multiple calls and then
go into a local spot go through multiple people to try to get it set up because
of other issues so if they would have just kept it there like they did in
other countries that would just been a lot easier for me having no sim slot has
been all negatives with no positives at all now the next one is the dynamic
Island now I actually absolutely love the dynamic Island I love that it's very
convenient but we were here two months later and not many companies already
adding anything to make it useful and I want them to do that uh so the island is
there itself and the negative is the fact that it cuts into video uh it you
know it's more noticeable compared to the notch but I would love it if Google
Maps would allow it to show turn-by-turn navigation there just like Apple Maps
has and so recently I've actually been using Apple Maps uh because it is
convenient when I have just set up on my stand now as you know I have done a ton
of testing with the cameras with every scenario that you can even against a pro
camera setup that was around nine thousand dollars and the raw looks
amazing that we have such a huge difference between shooting regular
photos and the 48 megapixel Pro raw not only in detail but the ability to have
much better highlight roll off it looks a lot more natural now I've complained a
lot that you can't shoot 48 megapixel compressed files and that the file sizes
instead of being three megabytes or maybe up to seven it's like 75 megabytes
and apple won't let you just shoot to that now my workaround has been to use
the shortcut to be able to select them and convert them that's been the best
way that I've found so now I'm shooting you know a ton of shots doing Pro raw
because it looks so good now other than just letting us shoot it without having
the conversions I would love to be able to do portraits in full quality now
Apple doesn't like to have uh features that take a lot of time like processing
later or that won't be able to show you the portrait ahead of time but a lot of
Androids do that and I think most of us would take the trade off of having to
see the image later but get the best quality now with that I also found that
these new Pro iPhones are doing things a little bit differently when I did the
comparison against the 13 Pro and 12 Pro there are some times where the images
didn't look better at all and sometimes when they actually looked worse and not
just with the main camera and what I found is the fact that they actually
will not go into night mode they'll just take a regular photo and that's even
without having the prefer a faster shutter option turned on now that just
means that you're not getting the better quality uh because you just press and
take one image now once again for Android sometimes you take five seconds
or seven seconds when it did the comparison against the Samsung and the
pixel and that helps them so what I found is a workaround is the ability to
just go down press that little button for a night mode drag the slider and
then manually enable night mode but thing is it just doesn't stick so if you
want the best quality images you have to do that and there's no way to kind of
enable it to prefer night mode in the settings and after talking about all
these photos I have to talk about the lightning Port now I recently made a
video saying I don't want USBC on the iPhone I want something better and
that's because Apple at this point is purely I don't know if it's just greed
for money or what but they're limiting this to be 10 times slower than what we
had in the 12.9 inch iPad in 2015 even though we actually have the need for it
with large you know raw files we have prores to back stuff up they're just
capping it and they don't have to be doing that to me it just doesn't make
sense in you know the end of 2022 almost 2023. now if they do stick with the USB
type-c port I really hope that they're going to do Thunderbolt like we had a
recenter leak that will fix all of those issues but Apple just intentionally
wants to keep you using iCloud and paying for that or at least using
airdrop which they had in their document so they showed off so that you have to
have a Mac and you're preferring you know to stay in their ecosystem now the
next one is the fact that the screen is still too bright often times in the dark
now we talked about the Dual sensors and people said that it would adjust over
time but it is still brighter in almost every scenario than before now all Apple
has to do is give you a compensation adjustment slider in the settings if you
prefer a brighter or darker and that will also help with battery life I
complained about battery life being really bad so much so that I had to go
with the 14 pro Max instead of my preferred smaller size because the
regular 14 pro would die hours earlier compared to the last generation now
thankfully it has gotten a lot better and with iOS 16.1 there's been a nice
jump on YouTube idevice help compared the last four generation of phones and
the 14 pro Max gained just over one and a half hours of battery life with just
the software update and optimizations so what's there to complain about well
there's not that much it's definitely a great thing but that test did not
account for the display being brighter or the xdr that can get super bright
outside or they're always on display mode so overall we're still looking at
about one to two hour lower battery life compared to last year and that's
something that I would gladly take for these extra features but with that even
though I would like to have the 14 pro not the pro Max I still have to go with
the pro Max because I do have a lot of background tasks that need to be on and
the battery life just will not keep up with the full day this year like it did
last year so there you guys go those are my frustrations things I wish Apple
didn't do and what they did do along with some helpful tips there go ahead
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