Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and iphone 11 pro max has been out a little over a year and this
has been my main phone most of the time unless i was testing things like the iphone 11 or se
every single day i carry this with me and i use it for everything from watching youtube to checking
my email and more and so i wanted to talk about the overall durability it's battery life after
a year as far as its battery health what i get out of it software updates and overall durability
and so the first thing is this iphone is probably my favorite design and it should be at this point
other than the squared off edges that we'll see with the iphone 12. i really like the squared off
edges but in general this is a perfection of what apple's been working on for years
and so this particular device has really held up very well the outer edge is stainless steel and
there's no scuffs on it or anything and you may have noticed already i'm not using a case i'm
not using a screen protector and so of course i could avoid scratches and things if i did use one
but as you can see it's held up well i don't have any scratches on the lens of the camera
and in general it's held up really well there's not really any scuffs around the outside edge
maybe a few down at the bottom here but i don't really see anything major and then laying it on
the table will produce a little bit of scuffing down at the base of the phone on the back but if
you have a case you'll never see that or a skin otherwise i don't really see it i have seen some
others that have a worse experience now the front display is a different story apple's glass with
the iphone 11 pro max is supposedly less prone to shattering if you drop it however it seems to be
softer and scratches more easily and so right there you may already see the scratch i have
a few deep scratches now of course this could all be avoided if i used a screen protector and
if apple continues to use this glass i'll probably use a screen protector on the iphone 12 pro max
so this particular display just doesn't hold up well to scratches in general and seems to
scratch very easily in fact i did a video about that quite some time ago and it seems like
it just is a common problem with most people so unfortunately apple never addressed that with
this particular version it must be the glass it just must be this particular version of gorilla
glass now the ports and everything are doing well and the speaker ports in general are have
actually been filled up with dirt i set this down to take some thumbnails for videos and things and
they're still working fine so if i go into youtube for example play a video you can hear it here
the speakers sound just as good as they always did i didn't have any issues with them getting muffled
or blowing the speakers they sound good both the top speaker and the bottom speakers so that's a
good sign it's held up really well after a year and this has been the same phone after a year
and so in general it's held up well compared to others i have had to swap out others in the past
this one i haven't now the overall speed of the device seems to be great i really haven't had
any issues no lag or anything like that other than what people were experiencing with bugs with ios
14. so those are pretty common bugs but in general you'll see everything super smooth i really don't
have any hiccups the camera is nice and fast and the camera is something i really like on this
phone in fact i'm filming with an iphone 11 pro now and so the video quality in 4k is phenomenal
as you can see here this one says 4k60 if we want to just change it to whatever we want to use here
4k 30 the video quality is phenomenal especially if you're in outdoor light
there's no issues whatsoever and so these cameras are among the best when it comes to video cameras
i would say they are the best when it comes to photos i'd put that right up there with the pixel
4xl as well as maybe the note 20 depending on what your style is that you prefer for photos otherwise
this is a phenomenal camera a few issues it has sometimes at night sometimes it's a little bit
grainy and things compared to some others but in general it's a phenomenal camera and unless you
want something that's slr quality or mirrorless quality you'll need a larger more expensive camera
for that otherwise it does the job for most people now overall battery life of the 11 pro
max has always been excellent it's been at the top of smartphones in fact it was better than most it
when it launched and still is today and so this was getting me 10 to 12 hours when it
first launched now with ios 14 that's gone down a bit hopefully they'll fix that issue
but after one year of usage i've got 95 percent battery health left apple says 80 after two
years is normal so i'm doing a little bit better than average i do charge it every night using a
wireless charger wake up in the morning and then maybe if i'm driving it's charging in the car but
in general it's held up really well so this is well within spec it's better than most and i know
many other people that have about 95 after a year some have less some have more it just depends how
often you charge it i rarely use a fast charger with it and that's not on purpose it's just that
i find wireless charging more convenient so i just put it on a wireless charging stand by nomad
and that's what i use at night now overall battery life with ios 14 hasn't been phenomenal you'll see
if i go to a couple days ago i had four hours and 30 minutes of screen on time four hours and six
minutes of screen off time and i used almost 75 percent of my battery so that's not great
and hopefully we'll have better battery life with future updates that's usually what happens
there's a lot going on in the background in fact some people have said using this cpu x app
or this widget they've said that it was actually using more power as far as cpu power than it
was with ios 13 thus reducing battery life that could just be tweaked by apple in future updates
to hopefully fix the problem maybe they had to speed it up a little bit to get some of
the widgets to work properly but in general it seems to not be much of an issue now using this
every day whether it be with airpods to listen to music is something that i really enjoy using
i really haven't had many complaints with the iphone 11 pro max and it feels much more like
it's perfected compared to maybe even previous versions the 10s max had issues with pwm where
the display flickers to control brightness and so does this one based on when where you set the
brightness it's flickering faster or slower it's just how oled displays actually control brightness
but the display looks phenomenal you'll see we're outside now you can see it it's not a
sunny day but it seems pretty good in general but the display doesn't seem to have flicker slower
than the 10s max and what i mean by that is for those that suffer from pwm causing headaches or
causing them to feel nauseated or just eye strain in general the 11 pro max runs at a faster speed
as far as the pwm refresh rate so that it doesn't really bother your eyes so i haven't had any
issues with this display whatsoever and i think it's great so if people are bothered with pwm
i think this one is still recommended because it doesn't seem to give me a problem at all only one
in 10 people get eye strain from that but this one hasn't really given me any at all maybe if i was a
little bit tired and that was it now this design feels a little bit old to me and i'm looking very
much forward to iphone 12 with squared off edges like we had with the iphone 4 and 5. so those were
my favorite designs this one with the rounded edges i find it harder to grip and i don't like
it as much i think it feels less premium than if you have squared off edges now that's very
subjective you may not agree with that but that's something that i really prefer i like the squared
off edges where you can hold on to it really well it feels more grippy to me and just feels
more premium in general also i'd like to see apple get rid of this lightning port and just go to usbc
i know some people don't feel that way but after using usbc devices such as macbooks and ipads it'd
be great to have that on the iphone as well just to have everything as a universal charger it'd be
much easier to carry maybe a macbook pro charger and then one cable and yes you can use the macbook
pro charger with it it may degrade the battery a little bit faster but it's not going to charge
any faster than the fastest allowed charger which i think is 28 watts according to apple even though
it may be a 90 watt charger the iphone will limit that amount of power and only allow what it thinks
is necessary to charge the battery internally so it doesn't hurt the internal components so
really not an issue and then when using it with intense games or maybe recording 4k 60
video the back will get a little bit warm that's normal we don't have cooling fans or anything
and with ios 14 it seems to happen more than maybe it did with ios 13 but again it feels fine it's
never been hot enough where i couldn't hold on to it and it didn't degrade my battery any so it
seems to be doing well it depends where you live of course so if you're in a very hot environment
it could affect things but in general the heat of the device is fine for me now whether or not
they'll get rid of this notch is hard to say i think with this notch it's going to be here for
a while until apple can figure out putting that face id sensor up in the top rim of the phone
it's kind of hard to fit all of these sensors here other manufacturers have done away with face id
and apple may eventually embrace touch id on the power button as well so i would love to see all of
those changes but right now this phone is great it feels solid i continue to use it every day
until the next version comes out and i really enjoy it and still highly recommend it if you
can get a great deal on one now let me know what you think about it though in the comments below
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