hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and lately I've been getting a lot of questions about the
iPhone 14 pro and 14 pro Max and to whether or not it's worth it whether that be from friends or
people online asking me questions and so it's been out a couple months and so I thought I'd sort of
try and answer the questions people have about it starting with the dynamic Island so this isn't a
follow-up review it's more of a is it worth it for you to upgrade based on what you have and based
on the new features and so the first thing is the dynamic Island like I said and people say what do
you think of it is it exciting is it something to be excited for if I upgrade and typically I
say that it's nice but after a few days of use it just kind of Fades away in the background now the
overall look of it is either polarizing to you you really don't like it or it's something that
you actually find that you do like better than the notch before but personally to me it sort
of just fades in the background and becomes a nice place for notifications I don't really find that I
interact with it much but it's not nice to maybe go into music hit swipe home while it's playing
and then see it go up to the dynamic Island and then see those sorts of interactions I think those
are really nice to have sort of up in the top letting you know what's going on with different
things going on in the OS other than that though it's not really a reason to run out and buy the
phone it sort of gets old and it's not something you pay attention to constantly or interact with
constantly it's more that it's just nice and convenient that it's there so I wouldn't buy
it for the dynamic Island but I found that it's just a really nice thing to have there it's very
apple-like where it's just sort of nice animations to give you subtle notifications and information
about what's going on on your phone now the next thing people ask me what about the display is it
something to be really excited about or is it great and I find that that's probably one of
the best things about this phone the display is incredibly bright and seeing it outside
with this sort of daylight it's one of the best things about it because it goes up to 2000 nits
of brightness it just makes it much easier to see if you're in a bright environment so if you're in
an area where it's regularly sunny and you're outside a lot it's going to make a difference
compared to last year though if that doesn't matter you're not outside you're usually using
it indoors at work or something else you really won't notice that difference everything else is
the same there with promotion the smoothness and everything else is the same as what we had last
time but the extra brightness definitely helps also with HDR footage if there's some brighter
HDR footage out there it looks great on this display and the always-on display is something
that you're either going to love and you've wanted forever or something that you won't care
about the one thing that's really nice with the addition of iOS 16.2 Apple has added the ability
to just turn off the wallpaper in the background altogether so it just gives you the time the clock
your widgets things like that and that's about it everything else just sort of Fades away now it is
nice to have an always on display with wallpaper I actually like that and I haven't really noticed a
battery difference having that on or off but I've been testing that out just to see what it's like
now as far as the battery life of this phone that's something that some people say is great
others don't it depends what phone you're actually coming from so if you're coming from an 11 Pro Max
that's where we've got really good battery life with iPhone you're going to see about
the same sort of battery life now technically we have better battery life depending on what
you're doing from the 13 Pro Max to the 14 pro Max however the battery is technically smaller
but with the new chipset being more efficient sort of makes up for that so if you're just
watching video that you've downloaded maybe you're on a plane and you've downloaded a bunch of video
you'll get a little bit extra battery life but in everyday tasks with the always on display on
and with just doing what you normally do on your phone I find I actually get less battery life it
will easily get me through the day I get through the day with about 50 of my battery life either
way so it will last me without a problem and it charges at the same rate as before so there's not
really a difference between the 13 Pro Max and 14 pro Max that way but I would say you'll probably
get a little bit less less battery life if you've got the always-on display turned on if not it'll
be about the same as the 13 Pro Max depending on what you're doing the other big upgrade this
year is with the cameras the camera jumps up to 48 megapixels on the main sensor with the main wide
camera and there's definitely more detail there so if you're shooting outside just like this the
camera looks great you'll see the photos behind me and what they look like there's incredible detail
there especially when you zoom way in if you want to capture that with Pro Raw photos you can fully
edit them and more however there's been some odd sort of things happening with the processing
where it sort of darkens things for some people especially indoors so I don't know that it's
necessarily a big jump up if you're going from a 13 Pro Max and you're not caring about Pro Raw
photos or 48 megapixel photos if you're just using the standard mode it will use 12 megapixel photos
anyway or sort of compress them down to that size so if you're upgrading for the camera just for
that unless you're going to edit I wouldn't say it makes much of a difference also when it comes to
video that's actually about the same except when you're using it for HDR I actually find the HDR
coloring to be a little bit worse for some reason I've tried to edit it some in post and on some of
my videos I've recorded it with it just doesn't look great to me and I had to really modify it
a lot to get the look I had last year with just straight out of the camera I don't know if this
is something they're going to upgrade later with the phone with updates but it's just something
I've noticed however the best part of this is the forward-facing camera in fact I'm recording from
it right now and if I turn on this camera and just snap a photo here you'll see that I'm recording
with the front-facing camera it's doing a great job I don't have an external microphone and you've
probably seen others record with it also I think that's a big big upgrade this year that's really
underrated they added autofocus improved the sensor and it just looks much better I can put
it on a tripod like I just showed you and hit record and not worry about it so unless there's
a ton of ambient noise where there's a little bit of construction going on behind to me there's some
birds overhead occasional planes other than that it really sort of eliminates that noise and of
course you can fix that later on also but that's probably the best part of the iPhone 14 pro or any
of the iPhone 14 lineup is that forward-facing camera it's much much better than before thanks
to autofocus so like I said it's just something that I've been using I actually used it in other
videos just put it in front of me and hit record instead of using a big Sony camera this seems to
work just fine and most people actually think the footage looks better when you're watching
it on something like YouTube now this year we get a spec bump to the a16 bionic just like
every year they bump that up one number and it still has six gigabytes of RAM for the average
user you're not going to notice any difference whatsoever regular tasks feel the same opening
the camera you might see a small difference when maybe you're editing a 48 megapixel raw photo in
the time it takes to process that or a night photo but with even exporting 4K video I've
shown in different comparisons there was about a second difference sometimes even half a second
difference so it just depends on what you're doing with the phone it seems to handle everything with
ease there is one exception though and that's with overall smoothness Apple this year added
upgraded silicon that actually handles the dynamic Island and different animations and it really sort
of Smooths things out when you're scrolling and doing things where you're swiping home so unless
it's a software issue where there's some odd bugs typically it's smooth and fast so for most people
I don't think you'll notice much of a difference using the a16 bionic and I tell most people it's
not really worth upgrading just for that unless you're coming from an older phone then you'll
notice a difference in fact my wife when she upgraded this year from the 12 Pro to the 14
pro she didn't notice a speed difference at all she noticed a difference with the display in the
cameras last time she upgraded from the iPhone 10 to the 12 Pro and immediately noticed how much
faster it was so this year it seems to be less and less of a speed change from year over year and
it's still decent but it's not really a reason to just run out and pick one up because your iPhone
13 Pro Max feels slow I don't think you'll see much of a difference there and so that's typically
what I tell people asking if they should upgrade to the 14 pro or 14 pro Max normally if the camera
matters to you most of all the forward-facing camera or the rear camera with 48 megapixel photos
then it's worth the upgrade if you're in outdoor environments that are bright all the time you'll
notice the difference there also anything else you probably won't see much of a change other than the
physical change of the dynamic Island everything else feels very very similar as the OS hasn't
changed a whole lot either and you have basically the same experience on the iPhone 13 Pro Max with
the exception of a couple different small features here and there with the camera otherwise it feels
very very similar so I don't know if it's worth it for everyone for a few people it's going to be
worth it but if you care about those 48 megapixel Raw photos and you use your phone for photography
the most well then it'll make a difference but again there's some odd processing from time to
time that you may need to adjust those photos a little more than you're used to other than that
it's great for video like I'm recording here as I showed you earlier and I definitely recommend
it if you're on an older phone or you can get a great deal as quite a few of my friends have
gotten good deals from their carriers recently where they're getting up to a thousand dollars
trade in from their previous phones so they're getting this for 100 or 200 then it's definitely
worth the upgrade so be sure to check the Local Deals in your area but again every few years
Apple fully redesigns this so you may want to wait but let me know what you're doing in the
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