What Nobody Tells You About the iPhone 15 Pro Max

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Today I’m talking about why you probably shouldn’t buy the iPhone 15 Pro (Max) and giving my long-term review after ~2 months.
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Is an absolutely Monumental release so many little things people really understand more immediately beneficial experience wor buying totally worth buying should you upgrade to the new iPhone 15 Pro okay there are a lot of reviews about the iPhone 15 Pro Max on YouTube and somehow everyone comes to

The same conclusion that this phone is worth the price but today I’m going to tell you why it isn’t at least for most people and let me explain okay so I switched to the iPhone 15 Pro Max from the iPhone 13 Pro Max and after using it

For a couple of weeks I really like a lot of the small changes that Apple introduced but I don’t think that it’s worth the price for most people but whether it’s worth it or not depends on what you really need and what you’re upgrading from so hopefully this video

Can help you make a better decision so I usually upgrade my phone every 2 to 3 years not out of necessity but just because I like new tech and it’s one of my hobbies I didn’t upgrade to the 14 pro Max last year because there wasn’t anything new that would make it more

Useful to me and honestly it felt the exact same as my 13 Pro Max except with Dynamic ey well with the 15 Pro Max despite no single groundbreaking feature everyone seems to say that this is the best all around iPhone ever and after using it for a couple of weeks I can’t

Disagree but it’s also Apple’s most expensive iPhone ever so let’s start with the physical design and the build quality okay so the main physical change this year for the pro model iPhones was switching from a stainless steel frame to a titanium frame which is supposed to

Be stronger and lighter I don’t know if this is a hot take but the stainless steel looked a lot more premium to me hands down the weight reduction is nice but realistically 20 G difference in my pocket doesn’t make that big of a difference day-to-day what does make a

Difference though are the new rounded edges which make the phone feel so much better to hold in your hands without a case and of course you get the same rounded design on the regular iPhone 15s this year as well everyone’s hyping this up but let’s be real how many people

Actually use their phone without a case another benefit of the titanium frame is that fingerprints are a lot less visible and easier to clean at least on the lighter colors like the white titanium I have here but I don’t know something about the 13 Pro Max just reminds me of

The iPhone 5s and that’s still one of the best looking iPhones ever in my opinion the color selection is also worse on the 15 Pro Max I think the 13 and the 14 pro Max had really nice colors that looked a lot more premium especially the Alpine green and that

Deep purple the colors on the 15 Pro look a lot more dull and pretty mid in my opinion nothing really stands out I just went with the white titanium I also like the natural titanium but I definitely don’t think it’s anything special either but what is special are

The new Slimmer bezels this actually wasn’t very noticeable to me until I put the two phon side by side and now it’s probably one of my favorite changes so they slim the bezels all around and that also makes the phone it’s self a bit smaller and what they call the screen to

Body ratio higher overall it looks more Sleek but it also feels way more usable with one hand now I usually use my phone with a case so the 13 Pro Max Plus a case around it made it kind of bulky and hard to use sometimes with just one hand

But now I think it’s quite comfortable and a lot more usable so I really like how they slim down the body of this 6.7in phone of course Dynamic island is still there and it is a change for me from the notch I like the functionality of dynamic Island a lot more but I

Definitely think it’s more noticeable than just having the notch there since it doesn’t really blend into the best as easily and then we have the game changer for most people USBC finally on iPhone life is easier on the iPhone with USBC since now the phone can share accessories with every other device USBC

Can also reverse charge things like your airpods so that can come in handy sometimes and on the pro and pro Max models you get USB 3.0 transfer speeds which is 20 times faster than lightning I think aird drop will still be more useful for most people but this is

Really useful for things like moving external files into an SSD which we’ll talk about later the one downside is if you had like a lot of lightning accessor series it’ probably be pretty annoying to have to Reby all of them in USBC but I think this is a pretty good long-term

Investment considering iPhone’s probably going to be sticking with USBC for a while I also think it’s kind of a late change to make from Apple because mag safe is so popular now especially with the new standby mode on iOS 17 which looks amazing it feels like the future

Compared to USBC now so yeah and of course we have the new fancy action button that replaces the silent switch it is cool to have but I haven’t found many groundbreaking use cases for it since I switched this phone I still have it set to the ringer since that’s

Probably the most useful thing for me I will say that Apple shortcuts open a lot of possibilities for customization with this button but even on older iPhones you could customize the double and triple tap on the back of the phone which is honestly easier to use than

Reaching for the action button on the pro Max phone the last big change that nobody talks about is that the back glass is now separate from the titanium frame on the new pro and pro max phones while this is a good thing in theory because now the back glass is

Replaceable and a lot cheaper to repair it also means that the quality control has to be a lot higher or you might just get a misaligned iPhone when I first on my 15 Pro Max I noticed the edge where the glass back meets the titanium frame

Was very rough and even sharp enough to feel it’s scratching you visibly you couldn’t really see the problem but you could definitely feel it when you just held the phone in your hand I tried to take some macro shots of it here luckily I got mine exchange at the Apple Store

But even with this new phone you can still feel where the glass back meets the titanium frame and it’s definitely not as smooth or premium feeling as the 13 Pro Max overall with those changes and a few setbacks I still like how this phone feels in my hand more than the 13

Pro Max do I like it more than the regular 15 plus though I’m not so sure and this is a trend that you’ll start to notice throughout this video okay now let’s talk about performance so most tech reviewers are benchmarking the performance of this phone on something

Like a geekbench test obviously in that case the GPU and CPU of this phone will easily outperform the older iPhones but two things to know here the first is that there is no difference in day-to-day use like sure opening apps can be a few milliseconds faster but

Realistically it does not matter at all and two is that the 15 Pro Benchmark numbers aren’t even anything special like Samsung phones that came out before the iPhone 15 Pro can still outperform them on Benchmark tests you do have 8 GB of RAM in the 15 Pro now which means

It’ll be a little bit more future proof even with new software updates but the only benefit I can see for someone today is if you’re a big mobile gamer games will load a little bit faster and you can probably run some more intensive games in the future but I don’t know how

Good this phone will actually run those full console games that Apple is promising to bring to the iPhone like Assassin’s Creed even running something like NBA 2K arcade edition I didn’t think the performance was that great and there were still some hiccups from here and there one thing I did want to point

Out though is a lot of people talk about overheating issues on the pro model iPhones and I haven’t experienced anything beyond slightly warm yet even under longer and more intensive gaming sessions so it looks like those early iOS 17 software updates help so at this point it feels like the build quality is

Pretty much the same and the performance is also pretty much the same so what makes this phone worth it over the regular iPhone 15 plus or an older iPhone 14 pro Max I think it’s the cameras Apple really did nail down the camera systems in this phone and it’s

Visibly better than my 13 Pro Max obviously but even when compared with the 14 pro Max Max from last year Apple’s claiming there are now Seven Pro lenses in your pocket with this phone now it’s really just three but you can still see how much visibly bigger the

Camera bump is now thanks to that new 5x telephoto lens speaking of cameras if you are looking for a case that protects your cameras and your iPhone 15 while looking good let me show you these cases I’ve been using from ESR they are the sponsor of today’s video but I’ve gone

Through my fair share of clear cases before from Amazon AliExpress teu and this is what they all look like after a few weeks not to mention they don’t actually protect your phone from drops so I’m using their class CL series case here which has a raised camera guard

That covers the entire camera bump to fully protect your camera lenses even when you put the phone down so you won’t scratch them the camera guard also flips out to become a mini kickstand that’s surprisingly sturdy and can be adjusted to multiple angles for watching videos this case also has built-in magnets that

Are way stronger than the regular magsafe ones on your phone so it actually sticks really securely to all magsafe accessories honestly this is my go-to case everyday now because it’s so slim yet it feels really high quality all of the buttons are easy to press it

Looks really good on my white iPhone and it also has these Air Guard corners for serious drw protections and if you want something other than a clear case they also have this Cloud series case which has all of the same features but comes in this soft silicone finish that feels

So premium and lastly they have an armor series which has the same features again but this time it comes with a camera lens protector and a full coverage screen guard to provide total 360° protection and you can still easily use the screen I think I definitely put on

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Talk about what’s so special about this new camera there are really two main things on this Pro iPhones camera that make it better than the 15 plus and last year’s 14 pro number one is being able to shoot log footage and Apple log and number two is having USB 3.0 transfer

Speeds let’s start with Apple log so log is a super flat color profile found on some professional cameras that captures more dynamic range AKA shadows and highlights this gives you a lot more flexibility and color grading post- production and it’s pretty crazy to have that built into an iPhone now the

Downside is obviously that you have to colorate all the footage yourself and that the file sizes are massive compared to just shooting compressed 4K videos on the iPhone standard color profile but will the average day-to-day user ever use this probably not will I ever use this probably not because the file sizes

Are so huge the really valuable use case here is pairing the ability to shoot an Apple log with the faster USB 3.0 transfer speeds to use the iPhone 15 as a backup professional camera rig for example if you filmed a lot of footage on on another camera and you want the

Colors to look consistent you can shoot the rest in appal and then color graded the same and you know what that actually might be very useful for all eight of the people in the world who will be doing that but for you and me it’s pretty useless for two reasons number

One is that no matter how many shot on iPhone cinematics you see there are still real limitations to shooting Pro stuff on a tiny iPhone sensor and the 15 Pro is still not comparable to a good mirrorless camera and number two is that shooting on a smartphone today is still

Mostly about speed and convenience and the truth is the regular point and shoot mode on the iPhone is good enough for 99% of people and definitely more than enough for social media I actually want to talk about a big change in the default camera here since the default

Camera now shoots at 24 megapixels up from 12 megapixels on the 13 Pro Max and 14 pro Max and even what most Android Flagship phones are using today 24 megapixels doesn’t sound like a huge increase but it’s really impressive given that it does this by default in

Auto mode with no shutter lag and preserving all of the dynamic range this is probably the most useful change to the camera this year but it isn’t limited to the pro iPhones and even the regular iPhone 15 and 15 plus shoot at this higher 24 megapix default so the

Fact that you can get 24 megapixel shots and almost all of the camera features that most normal people will find really useful like Auto portrait mode available on every iPhone this year again makes the pro iPhones this year really hard to recommend obviously there are some other

Fun features you get on the pro phone like the new 10x Zoom is actually kind of useful and you get the additional focal links for 1.2x and 1.5x but it really comes down to whether or not you’re willing to pay a few hundred extra dollars for some bells and

Whistles that you might not even use and honestly that’s pretty consistent with every change on this new iPhone yeah the 15 Pro Max is still the iPhone for people who want the best iPhone I’ve switched to it and it’s the best iPhone that I’ve ever used it looks and feels

Great has one of the best cameras in any smartphone on the market today and handles everything you throw at easily but the question isn’t whether the iPhone 15 Pro Max is good or not it’s whether or not it’s worth it over other iPhones that can do 95% of what this

Phone can do for a much cheaper price and this is especially hard now because even the regular iPhone 15 and 15 plus have more than enough specs and features that most people will ever need in a phone I personally think that the iPhone 15 plus is a great allaround phone to

Recommend everyone if you’re really picky about the 120 HZ refresh rate maybe even look into an iPhone 13 Pro Max or 14 pro max if you don’t need the newest and best iPhone and if you are one out of the eight people in the world who need the pro camera features on this

Phone for your work or your hobbies then you should pay a premium and go for the best iPhone ever made even for myself did I need most of the features on this phone no but was it IR rational purchase no and now that I have this phone I

Might as well experiment with some of the pro features so you might see some footage coming from this iPhone in future videos anyways that’s about it for this video let me know what you guys think in the comments down below whether you think the iPhone 15 pro pro Max is

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