hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and the iPhone 14 plus has been out a little over six
months so I thought we'd revisit it as many of you have asked me to and see how it's held up this is
actually in full-time use since its release day it's actually being used by my daughter but it's
in full-time use it has a screen protector on it that's heavily cracked it's been dropped multiple
times so I thought we'd talk about durability how it's holding up what the battery is like and much
more now the first thing is according to recent sales supposedly it's selling better than the
Mini Apple decided to get rid of the mini iPhones with the 12 and 13 mini and replace it with the
plus supposedly they're going to do the exact same thing this here and keep the plus line up for the
iPhone 15. so again we won't have an iPhone 15 mini but rather an iPhone 15 plus I don't know
if it's actually selling better than the mini as I still see more minis in the public than I do
plus phones but let me know what you think about that in the comments below now the design size
and weight is almost identical to that of what we have before with the 13 Pro Max so it feels
very similar although it is a little bit lighter of course it doesn't have an extra camera and it's
made of aluminum and is a little bit lighter because of that now it's been in this case the
whole time we'll check that out a little bit later but this is actually nice and light because it's
aluminum around the outside edges and because it's had a case it's held up really well as you
can see here there's not really any blemish on it whatsoever although we don't have that SIM
card slot in the United States which some might find annoying this is held up really well you
can see it's been protected and then just has a little bit of debris on the bottom where it was
opened up on the bottom of the case now the back has no scratches whatsoever and the glasses have
actually been well protected the sapphire glass over the cameras there's no scratches or bumps
or dings there or anything the case did a good job at protecting that so no issues there but this has
been dropped multiple times and and if we turn off the screen here you can see the screen protector
with multiple cracks let's go ahead and remove this see how it's actually held up I've replaced
the screen protector multiple times for some reason because my daughter continues to drop this
and she is fairly careful but for some reason it just keeps dropping for her but it hasn't harmed
this at all it's just left this outline here let me go ahead and clean this off a little bit and
in general ceramic Shield tends to hold up pretty well I shared with my 14 pro Max where there are a
couple sort of scratches in it you can see there ceramic Shield does hold up well but there's a
couple little gouges there and a screen protector of course takes care of that I'll link some in
the description if you want to check them out but in general it's a pretty good phone it's held up
durability wise without an issue now as far as the battery life well that depends of course on how
you use it but let's check it out we'll go into settings and then we'll go over to battery battery
health and charging we're still at 100 percent and you can see the overall cycle count here it hasn't
been used a ton compared to my phone but it's actually been used every single day since the
launch so it's holding up just fine the battery life itself well it's not the main device used all
day long typically it's used along with an iPad or a computer and you can see here so 25 usage is
getting her about two hours and three minutes of screen on time six hours and two minutes of screen
off time so it's holding up pretty well that way no issues there and it would easily get her
eight hours of screen on time if she continued to use this throughout the day so you can see
as we go back this is currently on iOS 16.4 the latest version but again 2 hours 39 minutes with
just over 25 percent usage that's pretty great battery life and this is one of the best battery
life phones out there Apple says it's the best but it depends on what you're doing it's very
similar to that of the 14 pro and to the 14 pro max phones so it holds up really well now as far
as charging of course it's the same as anything else in the way this one has been charged is just
how I charge my phone it's put on a magsafe charger typically magsafe compatible charger
at night left there charged taken off the charger in the morning sometimes put on the charger while
in the car but typically just put on at night and then used all day and then put back on at
night again and left there Apple does a pretty good job of managing heat with that it actually
has a temperature sensor with mag safe and it just keeps the heat where it should be while
it bumps the charge up to what you need holds it at eighty percent until you wake up and keeps it
up to 100 percent or bumps it up to 100 by the time you wake up so it's holding up really well
now one of the downsides of this phone of course is its display while that doesn't mean it's a bad
display it looks great has great viewing angles and is plenty bright in sunlight it's definitely
no display compared to the 14 pro Max where we have up to 2 000 nits of brightness Pro motion
and then always on display the pro the plus phones don't get that where the pro and pro Max do so you
don't have that or the dynamic Island and that's a little bit of a shame since we should at least get
120 Hertz Pro motion there's no reason for this phone not to have it the 13 Pro Max had it the
plus is the same size screen it definitely could have it but it's not there now this isn't aimed
at people where this would be a feature that would bother people but this is definitely something you
can see a difference in when you're scrolling and doing those sorts of things so that's one major
disadvantage however I haven't heard my daughter complain about it once she didn't even care to be
honest so I don't think it's aimed at people where this is a bother also pwm doesn't bother my eyes
on this phone where it doesn't bother my eyes on the 14 pro Max while this isn't as good as
the pro and pro max phones as far as pwm or the way it controls brightness it still does Flicker
at a lower rate and at 240 frames per second you can see that the screen is flashing more than the
pro Max phone but for most people this is plenty high enough that it won't bother your eyes unless
you're super sensitive to the way the display is controlling brightness if it's being bothered
well then you may want to consider an iPhone 11 that doesn't do that with an LCD display but in
general this should be good for most users now as far as the cameras go the good news is all of the
cameras this year were upgraded with an autofocus system for the forward-facing camera so that's a
good sign and if we go into the camera flip it around here we have up to 4K 60 HDR and if we go
into video we'll hit record now we're recording with the forward-facing camera of the 14 plus it
does a really great job just as good as the pro Max pretty much no difference really there at
all and the audio is pretty good as well in some cases it may actually be a little bit better for
some reason so it seems to be doing a great job if you want to use it to Vlog you just want to create
short clips FaceTime or anything else it should work really well for that now the rear cameras may
be better in some ways than the latest cameras because there's been quite a few complaints on
the latest phones where they actually don't do a great job at processing them the latest 48
megapixel camera on the pro max phones have caused a bit of an issue for some people while I would
say they're very good for video there's a focal distance issue that's not great for some and what
I mean by that is the minimum focal distance here if we go into the camera you'll see here you have
to sort of go into macro to get really close so it will switch to macro we'll just go to photo here
you've got a macro mode and we can get close but not super close so we actually can't get as close
as we could with previous phones and the reason for that is the lens has changed on the camera
sensor itself so we can actually get a little bit closer even though we don't have macro of
course we can zoom in digitally but it seems to do a better job if you want to maybe film video with
this getting really close to your subject that's one of the advantages of the camera this year and
I don't see the heavy processing as much on this phone that could be due to the the sensor being
something we've had for a while or it could be due to the processor but either way I would say that's
an advantage for this over the previous or the other Pro phones and maybe some of the previous
ones you've got upgraded internals sort of but you have great cameras and speaking of the internals
it's pretty fast we basically have the 13 Pro Max processor and you'll see guy ran geekbench on the
13 Pro Max that I have here if we go into geekbench here as well I ran it on the same
update we're both on 16.4 and you can see the overall results we have a little bit better speed
overall on the 14 plus than we do on the 13 Pro Max despite them having very similar processors
so you can see the results 2268 verse 21 29 and 5484 verse 4044 that's the results I'm getting I
find it's a little bit better that way and it should be a little bit faster because of that
I don't think you'll really notice much of a difference but it's definitely a little bit
quicker so that's a nice sign and because it has the latest processor we'll get iOS updates for
probably at least five years so typically Apple will support them with major updates for that long
and longer so I would expect at least five years support on this now the other nice thing this has
is Crash detection in Satellite connectivity so if we go back out go to emergency SOS
you have the option here to call after a severe crash of course we have that satellite
connectivity if needed as well if we go to the bottom we can demo that and so you can go into
satellite connectivity if you need this you're out where you don't have a signal you could use
this to place an emergency call it's great that it's integrated and it's one advantage you have
over previous generation phones hopefully you'll never have to use either of those crash detection
or satellite but they're available if you do and in daily use I think this is a great phone I would
say with 5G overall reception and Wi-Fi it's been pretty good I've had minimal complaints if
any from my daughter with it no real issues there and in general it seems to be a pretty good phone
the one complaint I've heard from my daughter on this phone is Siri and that's more software
related than Hardware so Siri tends to be a little bit of an issue for some people is it's just not
great but I think we're all experiencing that and that's nothing to hold against this phone now if
you're wondering if you should buy the 14 plus or wait for the iPhone 15 or maybe pick up a 13
Pro Max I would say it depends on what matters most if you really have to have promotion you
have to have that on your display or maybe even always on display then of course you're going to
have to go with a 14 pro Max but a 13 Pro Max is probably the better option here because you have
three different cameras plus lidar and you have a stainless steel body with that promotion on
the display so you get a little extra features and you probably can get it at the same cost
however there are a lot of discounts on the 14 plus that may make it easy to just pick up
close to free depending on your carriers deals so that's really going to depend on what you have as
far as your carrier where you live and more so if you can get this free it's a phenomenal phone for
that with support for many years if it's at the full price that's its major disadvantage Apple
really should have reduced the price on this significantly compared to what it actually is I
would say it may be 7.99 it would be an amazing buy but now we have the 13 Pro Max that's used
or last year's phone that you can probably get for cheaper than this so that's the big issue there
now let's take a quick look at the case as some people want to know how these hold up this has
been used full time with it you can see it has a little chip out of the silicone here and again
here where she's dropped this continuously so you can see around it it's not great and it's holding
up okay but I think it's probably going to be need to be replaced at some point internally
it's actually kept the phone scratch free the microfiber is holding up okay and the outside is
keeping the phone protected but it's definitely in a little bit of a challenging environment it
seems so it's doing okay it's doing its job there's other cases for the same price that
will do the job maybe even better and not wear out as quickly but I just wanted to share that
what it's held up like everything else seems to be okay but it seems to be sort of chipping and
wearing out pretty quickly so that's everything on the 14 plus let me know what you think about
it in the comments below if you think you'd pick one up are you picking one up or did you are you
going to wait for the iPhone 15 let me know in the comments below of course I'll link this wallpaper
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