The iPhone 11 Pro Max is great By Linus Tech Tips

Remind me in three minutes to make a point to our viewers. I spent the last three weeks exclusively using the iPhone 11 Pro Max Apple Watch Series 5 and the 2nd gen air pods to immerse myself in the ecosystem as much as I could, and I was constantly frustrated by the clear and obvious problems that Apple has had years to fix and just hasn't bothered with. However, for the Android fans that are foaming at the mouth right now about a 10-minute hate speech about how bad Apple is, you guys can chillax, because there's lots of good stuff here, ?, along with some strange stuff like what is so pro about a phone. So it's with this question in mind that our journey begins right after today's sponsor ruggable rugs are spill, resistant, stain resistant and machine washable, they even stay in place with their non-slip pads use code. Fun line is 15 to get 15% off your order and free shipping at the link below. So the setup process was awesome.

As usual. Apple finally dropped the sim requirement to activate your new device, and they moved iOS, 13s, new, dark mode front and center on the setup screen. Now some third-party apps don't respect that setting, but otherwise it's great, and I never switched it off again and there's a lot of other smaller things that add up to stuff. You might not notice at first, but when you do, you'll wonder how you lived without it like offline dictation, which I immediately enabled when I saw it and I also enjoyed that series voice responses sound more natural than ever before. Tell me a bad joke.

I was they just gave me the cold, shoulder wow that one was good hard pressing Wi-Fi in the control center now gives you a list of nearby access points which makes all the sense in the world, and what about the fact that you can attach a photo to a reminder? That's freaking awesome. Actually, the new reminders app overall just makes androids handling of reminders look stupid. Unlike Android, you can set any ringtone. You want even a longer ringtone style, one that won't shut up until you deal with it for stuff that oh I, don't know you might actually want to notice and be reminded about. Anyone else noticed the reminder from my Android phone nope me.

Neither also managing your tasks is straightforward, with easy ways to both mark completed and delete outright, and my only complaint about it is that reminders can be easily swiped away with no way to restore them, and so parents who lend their phones to their kids will know why this could be a problem. Another nice to have is that Apple now provides what looks like a way more accurate set of battery stats than their competition, and even made it easier to replace the battery with convenient pull tabs that contributed to I fix its six repairability score. So good job Apple is what I would say if they hadn't gone an added DRM to their batteries, at the same time as saying that they consider them to be consumable guys, it's called right to repair for a reason, not privilege to repair which I guess brings me to some low points of iOS 13. For me, compared to previous versions, apps are prompting me constantly on privacy and security permissions. This used to be an Android problem, not an Apple problem, and there are a lot of other little things that they've had generations to fix.

Now. I will complain about the lack of t9 dialing on the iPhone until I am old and gray, and the fact that your home screen always ends up looking like that one relative's desktop you've just got everything on there. Why is it all there? Furthermore, I still need to swipe from the very bottom to fully unlock the phone, and the frosted glass back can make large hand shifts like the one to get down there and then back up here very dangerous. Why don't they just use haptic touch to scroll through notifications and then a flick to unlock, or vice versa? Also, CarPlay is still bad even compared to the horrendous recent Android, auto update, navigate to Subway Series as this major delay between activation and when she actually starts listening. Apple naps needs manual, input for most navigation and when I dared go outside the ecosystem.

With my Google Play music subscription I only got music playing about half the time and then never with the screen. Actually working, so I could see what track was playing, though in fairness, Google should probably be shouldering some blame here, and actually I guess. It's kind of an aside, but I need to get inside my system. Both Apple and Google need to grow the up and start treating the users of another platform as what they are you're paying customers I'm, not the only one complaining about this Google Play, Music Issue on the iPhone, and it has been months and this childish app kneecapping even carries over to the Apple Watch where you still straight-up cannot interact with a Gmail message seriously. You, your multi-billion dollar companies, put your heads together and figure out how I can scroll through as much of the email as I download.

Please then mark it red if it's not important. I've said this before, but here it comes again. I am your customer, and I am one of many people out there who pays for your service but might not always use your operating system. As for the Apple Watch itself, I actually love the hardware. It finally has an always-on display, making it the first Apple smart bracelet that also functions as a competent watch.

Wow, dictation is great, but with a great big asterisk. There's no way to make quick corrections, you need to press the digital crown to cancel and try again from scratch. So if, whatever you're trying to say is kind of jargon a year full of acronyms, then good freaking luck. Honestly, the thing is full of these kinds of simple user experience. Gotchas Siri can't understand how to mute.

My notifications, so I have to do that manually. Hey Siri mute my notifications, longer emails, often cut off after the first paragraph, which misses the point of a Smartwatch entirely for me, and some apps have no way to click through and then throw the app up on your phone. Even if they do give you full read and reply function, I mean how is this still acceptable to Apple? How is this still acceptable to apples users? Why am I dictating to this right now? Stop it just feels like Apple is backwards in a lot of ways here and the one way where that's a good thing is that the Apple Watch is actually the only place where 3d touch still exists on a current generation Apple device 3d touch was one of my favorite features that Apple introduced with the iPhone 6s. Unfortunately, it wasn't a success, I guess, so they killed it. I had said before.

That was a hard press on the Wi-Fi thing. No, it's just a fake Oh, hard press. It's a long press that buzzes, so yeah ten are donen't. Have it, and now the entire 11 Series Pro included, dropped it, and I'm really I really wanted to take off, but instead we're left with haptic touch, which is just long pressing with a nice vibration. It's only a little slower, but I do still miss it for what it's worth they did make good use of its removal.

The 11 pro's battery is a full point. Six five millimeters thicker than before, and only point four millimeters of that is from thickening the phone up right. Actually, maybe Apple has been listening to me all along in a backhanded sort of way, and what that culminates in is the worst case scenario of over six hours and twenty minutes for the pro in Geek bench 4s battery life, with the pro max even better than that, and that's at a half screen, brightness, not bad at all. As for the rest of the guts, there are a lot of adhesive seals, yeah, but that's kind of par for the course for a phone that is rated for such an impressive to the point of honestly being kind of overkill level of ingress. Protection for meters of water is deeper than most swimming pools go, so you would have a hard time killing this phone with submersion alone, and if something did die, virtually everything inside the phone is a detachable module.

Even the face. I'd sensor and selfie camera are separate from the display in case. You need to replace that some day, which you might because the screen online scuffed the first time, I put it in my pocket with nothing else in it. The front and back glass may have proven to be every bit as shatter resistant as Apple says, but the hardness, at least from my experience, doesn't seem to have followed suit. So I would recommend a case and a screen protector, because guys you do not want to break this thing.

Dumb super Retina display XD our name aside. The screen really is great. Not only is it incredibly sharp and bright at any given time, thanks to its sustained brightness of 800 nits, it can even hit 1,200 minutes while viewing HDR photos and videos that is a 20% higher brightness than even most high-end monitors and TVs and get this the display HDR spec only actually calls for 500 nits on tree black displays like this AMOLED one to put it from a mobile perspective, it's nearly double with the iPhone 10s Macs and most competitors are capable of, so it's great for showing off those next-gen. Smart HDR photos that you can take with the three rear cameras. It looks great from any angle.

Love this thing all right cameras, yes, cameras, plural I'm, starting a movement where we don't call these lenses anymore, because that isn't what they are. It's like me, like jumping from my minivan over to my motorbike and saying I'm changing my tires. Slow fees are irrelevant, I hope, but the front-facing camera is a lot better than previous generations, and I am all for that. The stock camera app, while still lacking professional shooting modes even on the pro models, is still very simple. Very usable and they've added a bunch of features, including a much more mature edit mode in the Photos, app and Samsung I hope, you're taking notes they added the ability to quickly capture video while you are in photo capture mode.

This is such a useful feature and I can't even begin to imagine through what convoluted process Samsung managed to pioneer it only to abandon it later and then let Apple take the lead. I guess, I'm, just glad to see it coming back because once Apple does it everyone's going to have to do it when shooting photos, Apple's new semantic, rendering engine makes extensive use of the 13's Bionic machine-learning accelerator to quickly identify what's in the image and optimize for it, it works in two parts. The first is similar to traditional HDR and that's a buffer of underexposed frames, which is used to reconstruct detail in bright areas, and then a single overexposed frame, that's taken for reconstructing darker areas. Then the engine scans for things that recognizes the sky gets the noise while hair is sharpened and faces are given subtler highlights and shadows processing from the previous step to retain a more striking true-to-life effect. This is also how Apple manages to pull off their high key light.

Mono portrait effect ltd store. com by the way. All of this has helped even further by a combination of optical image, stabilization and software image, stabilization that makes for a ridiculously stable shot, both while shooting still, and obviously it's especially noticeable while shooting video, the ultra-wide camera doesn't get IS. But with that wide of an angle, it's pretty tough to notice, just like it's tough to notice any significant difference in image quality between the three cameras. They all look great, as we saw in our non-Pro iPhone 11 review, though not everything is perfect and compared to the likes of the pixel line.

Results can sometimes be below par in terms of clarity and color accuracy, but I, don't think anyone's going to complain about the image quality overall here. What I'll complain about is that, in spite of all the good in the cameras the hype train made, it seems as though you could switch between them seamlessly and there is definitely a delay when you do it. I mean it's not a huge deal like being able to do it with a delay is better than not being able to do it at all, but well Apple didn't exactly go out of their way to temper expectations during their demos and zooming, isn't as smooth as I was expecting and I. Guess, that's really what this all boils down to expectations. There are so many things that are missing.

That would lend the iPhone 11 Pro some pro street cred, like a high refresh rate, display USB type-c, bi-directional wireless charging, professional shooting modes, a high quality, analog output or a reduced or remove notch. But if we take a step back from telephoto and have a look at the ultra-wide picture, the whole thing comes together in a way. That's still really positive, even if I think it costs more than it should, and everyone should just buy the iPhone 11 non-Pro. So stupid name, stupid, camera bump and decidedly last generation looking display notch, but it's the most premium, iPhone experience and long gone is the time when iOS vs. Android is some kind of black and white.

This one is better decision and anyone who says otherwise is frankly a pathetic fanboy now to be clear, I've preferred Android for quite some time now and as of filming. This I am already back enjoying the widely varied, if sometimes buggy, Hardware ecosystem, on the Android side of things time in the form of the galaxy fold review to come by the way subscribe. So you don't miss it, but I actually planned to keep wearing the Apple Watch if for no reason other than to make a point about the deplorable state of Android smartwatches. So thanks for watching guys check out our 10 ways, I OS is better and our 10 ways. Android is better videos for more of my thoughts on the two ecosystems as a whole, massive shout-out, by the way to our sponsor for today's video d, brand I didn't have to give Apple any of my real money for iPhones, although I did buy, the watch I mean seriously a thousand Canadian rubles.

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