Vadim and I have been using and testing the iPhone 14s for close to two weeks
now and although the 14 pro Max is by far my favorite iPhone and I highly
recommend it to anybody wanting to upgrade there are still some software
and Hardware limitations that you should be aware of before buying so I'm going
to be discussing those in this video as well as some solutions to some of the
problems so let's get right into it the first one is battery life the last few
years iPhones have been amazing with battery life but unfortunately this year
it is different now I ignored the battery life the first few days since I
was using it so much but I was shocked on my first normal use date when my 14
pro Max was at 18 battery before 4 30 PM I hope that it would get better the
following week but nope and even Angelica commented that this past
weekend she was having a top off for 14 pro each day before the day was over now
this is because of a few new features that are nice but kill the battery and
thankfully there are a few adjustments that can be made to help which I'll
share after the next few problems the second is the display brightness now I
love that it gets super bright outdoors and that's very helpful but as I was
shooting videos from my insanely detailed camera comparison between the
14 the 13 and 12 Pro Max by the way make sure you guys are subscribed so you guys
don't miss that I noticed that the 14 series consistently chooses a higher
auto brightness than the rest of the older phones and in my regular use I
kept having to manually turn it down in the evenings this might be because Apple
added a second ambient light sensor which is now in the back and it's
helpful since it will bump up the brightness if you have the Sun or
something else that is bright behind it whereas the 13s and older wouldn't but I
would still love to have an auto brightness preference adjustment in the
settings third is the always-on display which I also love and I talked about how
much better it was than Samsung's but I keep finding it too bright in many
scenarios making it look like the phone is on now the phone does automatically
adjust the brightness of the always on display but just like the regular screen
brightness it biases too bright and and of course all of these are leading to
worse battery life so here are some work rounds while we still don't have a way
to adjust the auto brightness one thing you could do is to use manual brightness
for the times that you don't need the super crazy 2000 nits that really drains
your battery so the manual won't allow that the only thing is that unlike
Android it has a pain to find a setting on an iPhone but what I did was use
shortcuts to create a link workaround and I placed that shortcut on my home
page that automatically opens the settings so I can quickly adjust that
for the always-on display instead of just turning it off like some have I
created a custom Focus mode where nothing is changed other than dimming
the lock screen super dark while still showing off my nice wallpaper when I
raise it this will save battery life while still showing widgets and
notifications and if you want to take this further I change the text and the
icons colors to Red which is the color that has the lowest power usage for OLED
displays and it still pops with the screen dimming mode if you want to go
even further set your lock screen to a full black image so maybe Samsung was
right with their always on since we're talking about battery life we should
cover Chargers now everybody knows Apple no longer gives you a charger in the box
but that is not the problem what is is the fact that they recommend their own
20 watt Apple charging brick even though the new 14 pro accepts up to 28 watts of
charging and runs at 25 and 26 and the max runs at 27 peaking at 29. so if
you're gonna buy one make sure to buy a 30 watt model so we'll charge faster and
be more future proof even on regular iPhones thankfully bass has partnered up
with us to show off their new 30 watt super PSI Pro quick Chargers which
support full speed PD fast charging with enhanced temperature control but they
also come with an additional USB type a port for broad compatibility as well as
foldable prongs that make it much more compact than Apple's version not only
that but they've also got their Adam into 10 000 milliamp hour Palm size
power bank which literally has three times the battery capacity of the iPhone
114 Pro and also supports full speed PD 30 watt fast charging just like the
Super Side Pro on top of that it comes with a high quality metal casing for
durability as well as a convenient display to check how much battery has
left and it gets two extra USB type A ports so you can charge three devices at
once and the power bank itself has fast charging capability as well and can be
fully charged in 2 hours and 45 minutes so go ahead and check out this basis
charger and the power bank by using links in the video description below the
next one is screen dimming we talked about this a lot with the iPhone 12 pros
and pro Max's the 13s and with the 14s it has gotten a lot better but what I
have found is that the iPhone 14 pro actually dims more so than the 14 pro
Max and that makes sense because it's a smaller body so the heat has less area
to expand to and that is just a little bit annoying because it's still there so
if you don't want to deal with screen dimming if you want the ultimate
brightness outside if you're gonna do stuff like drones I would suggest go for
the 14 pro Max the next one is esim now I've mentioned this before how it sucks
that Apple did this in some countries and that even though it was easy to
switch over to esim I still had some issues with some calls not coming
through I had some weird pop-ups and then the last couple days my wife is
trying to send me texts and images and it just wasn't coming through I wish
that Apple stuck with the SIM models everywhere because there's just an empty
space where the Sim used to be in these phones and I know some people straight
up didn't buy a new iPhone 14 because their carrier did not support it so they
bought a 13 series phone instead and now I want to switch over to the cameras
because we do have some issues and I also have some workarounds with you now
the first I want to talk about is video this phone is amazing at shooting video
has the new action mode The Cinematic mode is a lot better but what Apple did
not give us is 8k video now when we had the league weeks of a 48 megapixel
camera coming to the iPhone 14 pro and pro Max we thought that was because of
8K video that is because this sensor is perfect for shooting 8K video without
having a big crop like you get with the Samsung phones but unfortunately Apple
didn't give it to us and I think that this is just an excuse to add it next
year while giving you a good reason to upgrade now if you don't believe the
apple is just holding this back think of last year with the iPhone 13 Series
where cinematic mode could only shoot 1080p without hdrs limited to 30 FPS we
thought that this was a hardware limitation but now with the iPhone 14
this thing does the 4K HDR cinematic mode even though it uses the same camera
as the 13 Pro and the same processor so it is not a harder limitation but a
software and even though it came out now with the same Hardware apple is not
adding it as a software update to the 13 Pro phone so that is just them getting
you to upgrade now I know some people say why do you even need 8K video well
you can say the same thing with 4K or even 1080p before that personally if the
hardware is capable I would rather have the best resolution possible so that 5
years 10 years from now when I have uh footage of my kids places we go I have
the best quality possible and now let's switch over to photos Apple's really
hyping up the 48 megapixel sensor all the detail that you'll get from it but
the problem is if you're just taking regular photos and they're using their
quad Bayer technology the photos don't look any more detailed than the iPhone
13 Pro photos at least in most lighting conditions that's because apple is
compressing all of those to 12 megapixels and they're recording in heic
and the detail just isn't there now when we switch over to Apple 48 megapixel Pro
raw it looks so much better in every single way but the problem is that the
file sizes go from around two to three megabytes to around 75 they are massive
and apple doesn't give us an option to make small files that are compressed not
raw like Samsung does and even worse is that there is no easy way to convert
these huge files into compressed ones that are going to be roughly three four
times larger than the 12 megapixel ones online Apple says that's going to take
up a lot of storage so you'll probably want to upgrade your phone to more
storage or their option is to save to iCloud and then download and then it's
going to eat up your iCloud space and your data and of course they have a link
just to bring you to getting iCloud or upgrading your storage now I searched
everywhere how to do this and the easiest way if you can believe it is to
edit the photo first then upload to your files app let it upload to the cloud and
then you take that re-download it send it to photos that will convert it and
that'll make the file size roughly around 16 or so megabytes instead of
being 75. thankfully the quality of that file is very similar to the raw file a
little bit more compression a little bit sharper but that just saves so much
space now if you don't like doing this method and having to find the photo
delete the old one you can actually download the Highlight app which is a
paid app and that will allow you to take photos right away in that converted
format it's about 15 megabytes it's HAC so it's higher quality and it looks
slightly better than the converted files themselves and even slightly sharper
than Apple's Pro raw file now know this video is not sponsored by halide but I
just thought it was really cool that you're able to do that and with that
they even have options to add widgets to your lock screen so you can quick open
that app for those images when you want that detail or even jump into the ultra
wide the regular the telephoto mode so it's definitely a cool app but you do
have to pay for it now the next one is kind of tied into this and that is the
fact that the lightning Port is still here and even worse it is still USB 2.0
which is insanely slow the old Samsung S8 plus was USB 3.1 and when I was
transferring these huge Pro raw files to offload them I was getting around 20 25
megabytes per second transfer speeds instead of what could be about 400 450
and we have shown you guys that the storage that is in here is insanely fast
even faster than the fast ones last year so it's more than capable but apple is
just limiting it probably because they want to bring USB type-c next year or
even Thunderbolts and make it a much bigger deal and lastly I have this very
simple one but I keep running into this issue and that's the fact that the Erp
speaker no longer has a grill right there at the glass and because of that
stuff keeps jamming into there and it's a pain to clean out because the slit is
very small so what I found as a solution is to have a can of air and that's the
easiest way to blow all that stuff lint whatever out of there and to keep it
clean and of course sounding its best so there you guys go those are my top 10
problems with this phone after using it for close to two weeks hopefully all the
solutions that I gave you guys helped you guys out click above to subscribe
there if you guys want to see my ultimate camera comparison with the past
two generations and then this new one check out that video right over there
that's been Max and I'll see you in the next one