Hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and the iphone 13 pro max has been my main phone since
it released to the public and many of you who follow the channel know that i use this and then
tried out the 13 pro and ultimate ultimately sort of ended up with the 13 pro max as my main phone
also if you've been following the channel for any period of time you'll know that in my videos
i rarely have a case on them and i typically don't use a case on them when i'm using my phone
from day to day i've never really had an issue with dropping my phone i've never had an
issue sort of having it break or anything like that i did have one incident a few
years ago with the 11 pro max and i've talked about this in a previous video
where it fell into the water i was taking a photo of it it fell off of a podium or a sort of a stand
into leaves and then tumbled down and went into water the water got into the phone and apple
wouldn't cover it i had to pay the deductible for apple care and then they replaced it
so that's the only issue i've ever had with any iphone i've never cracked a screen cracked the
glass or anything else and so now we're with the iphone 13 pro max and so i wanted to talk about an
accidental drop test that happened and so this is the iphone 13 pro max that it happened with
and while i was recording outside i wanted to sort of show you where i was recording
i was recording outside a follow-up video and typically i'll put my backpack on this picnic
table when my backpack's on the picnic table i'll get everything set up and ready to go
and unfortunately i forgot that i put the 13 pro max off to the side and i accidentally
hit it with the backpack that you see here and it slid off the table and directly onto the concrete
so it sustained a fall of about three feet or so from the top of a table onto the concrete
flat face down onto the concrete so screen side down it hit it just flat and slammed into the
the actual concrete and unfortunately had some damage now it's much better than you would have
thought but first let me show you the phone so if i take the back off here the the cover you'll see
nothing happened to the back of the phone and like i said it slid off of the table and fell
directly onto the concrete and so i reached down picked it up and flipped it over and thought oh
this has got to be cracked because there were some sort of different non-smooth textures i
was feeling on the side of the phone i turned it on and to my delight it wasn't cracked but it did
sustain some damage this was really surprising to me as like i said it was directly onto concrete
thankfully there were no rocks under it that hit it directly but there is some damage now from this
distance you probably can't see that damage but let me show you close up and the reason
i thought i'd share this with you is i was really impressed with what happened you'll see right here
in the bottom right hand corner it sustained a little bit of damage very little damage
on the other side the same thing so if you feel this the texture is a little bit different and
i'll try and show you under a macro lens from another iphone but you'll see the different
textures from the right and then from the left the same is true on the top of the phone so around the
right hand corner it sustained a little bit of damage and again on the left hand side basically
in the same four areas on the entire phone it has that same sort of damage on all of it but
nothing on the glass no scratches i thought for sure it was cracked in one of these corners
no scratches nothing and there's actually a little plastic barrier on the glass between
the glass and the stainless steel frame that took some of that damage or took some of that force and
translated it into that plastic and cushioned the blow to the front of the display so that's
something i'm extremely impressed with i've never dropped a phone on concrete other than this time
and it was just a case that it wasn't in my hand and unfortunately it was on a table and
i forgot that i put it there and slid it off and it fell into the concrete now of course
many of you are probably saying well why don't you use a screen protector in case well the first
thing is most screen protectors are not designed to to stop damage from a drop they're designed to
keep your phone from being scratched from things like keys or maybe other metal objects maybe you
have a diamond ring you bump it into the display that would scratch it things like that will
scratch your display just from everyday use and so that's what a screen protector is designed to do
there are some that will help dissipate some of that force and take the brunt of the fall however
most of them are not designed this way but it would help also using a case would help and many
of you have said why don't you use a case and the number one reason is i like the feel of the phone
and the textures i'm very big into texture i like the feel of the sort of matte glass on the back
the stainless steel sides and also the thinness of it it's a big phone and adding a case makes
it that much heavier i don't typically like the feeling of leather or silicone over time
i suppose if it was a metal case it might be a little bit better but sometimes when you just
pick up that phone and it's got that cool texture if you know what i mean when it comes to textures
you'll probably appreciate the same sort of thing so it's kind of a crazy thing to say don't use
a phone on or don't use a case on a phone this expensive but again that's what apple cares for
and at the very worst scenario if this would have shattered it would have been 100 so while that's
not necessarily cheap it's definitely better than spending 600 for a display or 500 for a display
and you typically can bring this to apple and have them just replace it for you so they'll either
replace the display or hand you a new phone either way they cover it under applecare and so with new
phones i always get applecare basically since i had the incident of dropping the 11 pro max
i decided to get applecare and sort of stick with it because you can pay it month to month
so i pay applecare month to month at least in the united states you can do that it's about ten
dollars a month and it takes care of that and every year when i switch phones i switch it to
the next phone and cancel it on the old phone so i canceled that on the 12 pro max put it
on the 13 pro max and that was about it and so i thought i'd just share the overall experience i'm
very impressed with how well it held up i was really scared that it was going to be shattered
and again you can see on the edges here there is a little bit of marring there where it hit concrete
but for glass to hit concrete at that full force just falling off a table i know others have done
drop tests and hit it in different directions and if there was a stone under it probably would have
cracked it but for me i've never had that happen and was very grateful that it actually held up
well so ceramic shield impresses me and so does the stainless steel frame so far and of course you
can cover that texture up just by putting a case on it now which i'll typically keep this on here
if i put it on a table or anything just in case i forget now so this will take care of that and
again this case would have taken the brunt of the force if i had the case on it and i should
have done that but let me know in the comments below if you use a case if you've ever dropped
it on concrete how it's held up and have you ever replaced screens i've personally never
had to thankfully i've never had to replace a display or anything from dropping it just that
water issue i mentioned earlier let me know your experience in the comments below if you'd like to
get your hands on the wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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