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**Long-Term Thoughts on the iPhone 11 Pro Max: A Comprehensive Review**

This video is sponsored by OWCA. It has been a little over six months since the iPhone 11 and the 11 Pro were released, and I have been using the iPhone 11 Pro Max as my main device every single day since its launch back in September. In this video, I will share some of my long-term thoughts about the iPhone 11 Pro Max over the past six-and-a-half months. I will also discuss some things I don't necessarily like about the phone and what I would like to see improved in the upcoming 2020 iPhones.

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The iPhone 11 Pro Max is an excellent smartphone. I want to start by saying that because this video will focus more on what I would like to see Apple do differently with the next iPhone and some of the issues I'm currently having with this one. However, it's important to preface all of this by stating that it is still the best iPhone you can buy right now. I am a huge fan of its look and feel, even though I think the massive camera bump is ridiculous. You do get used to it, and it becomes less of a big deal over time, much like the notch was when Apple first introduced it.

If Apple were to do a redesign, I would be totally on board with bringing back the square, flat design they used in the iPhone 4 or the one they reintroduced with the 2018 iPad Pro. Performance-wise, the A12 Bionic chip has been fantastic overall. While I have noticed a few weird glitches, bugs, and hiccups here and there—just like everyone else has—I can't deny that this phone is as snappy, powerful, and fast as it was when it first launched.

When it comes to gaming, even though I don't do a lot of it, when I do play games on this device, it's a joy because there are no problems at all. The phone handles gaming effortlessly, making it a great experience. For photo editing, responding to countless emails, taking tons of pictures, and editing slideshows, the iPhone 11 Pro Max has been a reliable companion. Watching tons of media on its big, beautiful AMOLED display has also been an incredible experience, with significant improvements compared to previous models.

One of the standout features of the iPhone 11 Pro Max is its camera setup. Apple added an additional ultra-wide camera, and the hardware and software tweaks they made for image processing have made a huge difference compared to the 10s and now the 11 Pro. While I don't use the ultra-wide camera a whole lot, it's still a nice-to-have feature when you need to capture more in the frame without stepping back or having space to move. The inclusion of Night Mode has also made taking pictures in low-light scenarios much better. In my opinion, photos taken at night are no longer something I would instantly delete, as they used to be a couple of years ago.

However, despite all these positives, there is room for improvement. Let's talk about the battery life first. The iPhone 11 Pro Max started with excellent battery life, and Apple even made the phone slightly thicker to accommodate a larger battery, which we were all extremely happy about initially. But over time, I've noticed it draining faster, and my battery health is starting to take a hit. For example, on my iPhone 10, I never noticed the battery percentage go down until at least a couple of months ago, when the phone was about two years old. The same goes for my iPhone 8, which my wife used as her daily driver for a while and now has about 96% battery health.

On my iPhone 11 Pro Max, however, the battery health is currently sitting at 97%, which doesn't make much sense to me. Maybe there's something different in how Apple measures performance, or perhaps it's just not accurate. Either way, I am noticing that the battery is draining faster, and this has made me check the battery health more often—something I never had to do before.

Now, for charging your iPhone's battery, we've been doing it via the lightning cable for years. While this works fine, I would love to see Apple take the next step by fully adopting USB-C for charging. It's pretty frustrating to travel with all these different cables when my MacBook Pro and iPad Pro already use USB-C. With the help of some accessories, I can even charge my Apple Watch via a USB-C cable. The only thing missing is the ability to charge my iPhone using USB-C. While this might seem like a minor flaw, it's still an inconvenience.

Another hardware change I would love to see in the upcoming 2020 iPhones is the introduction of a 120Hz refresh rate display. Although the iPhone 11 Pro Max's display is fantastic and there's nothing wrong with it, having a higher refresh rate would be a nice-to-have feature, especially since many Android devices are starting to adopt 120Hz displays. Apple introduced this technology in its iPad Pro lineup a few years ago, so bringing it to the iPhone might not be too far off. While I know that a higher refresh rate could drain the battery faster, I personally love the buttery-smooth effect you get while scrolling and navigating the UI.

Additionally, as a quick bonus thought, I would love to see Apple bring back Touch ID in the form of an in-display fingerprint sensor. While Face ID has improved over time, there are still times when it doesn't recognize my face properly, especially when the phone is lying on a flat surface. Having a fingerprint sensor in conjunction with Face ID would give users more options and essentially fix all of my issues with Face ID. However, I don't think this feature will happen this year, as rumors suggest that 2020 might be too soon for its introduction.

In conclusion, while there are some minor issues with the iPhone 11 Pro Max—such as battery life degradation and the lack of USB-C charging—it's still an incredible device overall. Apple has done a fantastic job listening to its consumers over the past year and implementing real changes that people wanted to see. I really hope that Apple continues this trend in the upcoming 2020 iPhones.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is sponsored by OWCA it's been a little over six months since the iPhone 11 and the 11pro were released and I've been using it as my main device every single day since it launched back in September and so in this video I'm gonna give you some of my long-term thoughts over the last six-and-a-half ish months about the iPhone 11 pro max specifically since that's been the device that I've been using and then I'd like to tell you some of the things that I don't necessarily like about the phone and what I would like to see improved in the upcoming 20/20 iPhones before we get started be sure to subscribe and hit the bell to get notifications whenever we share a video the iPhone 11 pro max is a very good smartphone I really do want to start off by saying that because I think this video is going to focus more on what I'd like to see Apple do differently with the next iPhone and a few of the issues that I'm currently having with this one but I feel like it's important for me to preface this all by saying it's obviously the best iPhone that you can buy right now I'm a huge fan of the look and feel and even though I do think this massive camera bump is ridiculous you do get used to it and it becomes less of a big deal kind of like the notch and how that was a big deal you get over that pretty quickly personally if Apple did do a redesign I'd be totally on board with the square flat like frame that Apple originally used with its iPhone 4 and then they brought it back with the 2018 iPad pro performance with the a12 Bionic chip has been fantastic overall sure you've noticed a few weird glitches bugs and hiccups here and there like everyone else has but overall this phone is just as snappy powerful and fast as it was when it first launched gaming which I don't do a lot of but when I do it's a joy because there's really no problems with gaming on a phone like this and editing photos responding to lots and lots of emails taking tons of pictures editing a slideshow if you need to do that watching tons and tons of media on my 11pro big beautiful AMOLED display has been a great experience perhaps the big improvement from last year overall are the cameras not only did Apple add an additional ultra wide camera to the mix but the hardware and software tweaks that were made to help image processing have made a huge difference compared to the 10s and now the 11 Pro while I don't really use my Ultra wide camera a whole lot it's still a nice to have feature when you really need to capture more in frame and you just don't have the room and you don't want to step back you just hit that ultra wide sensor and you can get a whole lot more in the frame and the inclusion of night mode has made taking pictures in low-light scenarios or just even out at night with very little light around you an incredible experience photos taken at night are no longer in instant delete in my book which is what it used to be a couple of years ago whenever you take a photo at night the new sensors and software tweaks have made that feature incredible while overall there's certainly a lot of good with the iPhone 11 and the 11 Pro that doesn't mean there's not room for improvement for starters battery life started out excellent Apple even made the iPhone slightly thicker in order to accommodate a larger battery which we were all extremely happy about but over time it's been getting worse and worse yes I am aware this is how batteries work and that degradation happens but in the past it's not something that you would notice until a couple of years for using the phone not a couple of months I've noticed it draining faster and even my battery health is starting to take a hit for example on my iPhone 10 I've never noticed the battery percentage go down in the battery health part until at least a couple of you know months ago which that phone is about two years old same goes for my iPhone eight which my wife was using as her daily driver for a while and so with those going down to about 96 percent today my iPhone 11 sits at 97% this something just doesn't make any sense now that could mean nothing maybe there's a different way that Apple is measuring your performance and something could just be not accurate I don't know for sure but I am noticing that battery is draining faster and so that to me is kind of making me check the battery health more otherwise I never would have to look at it I've noticed other users and not just myself and other people and friends and I've talked to you have had similar issues now for me it could be something that I'm doing differently like maybe I'm using wireless charging a lot more which I actually am I don't think I've ever really used the lightning cord unless I was traveling but at home I exclusively use a wireless charger so that could be it and that is something new to what I've been doing with the 11pro over the past I phones that I've had not 100% sure on this again but obviously I'd love to open it up to discussion if you guys know would love to hear your thoughts in the comment section down below how's your iPhone's battery life doing so this brings me into charging your iPhone's battery and we've been doing it via the lightning cable which is fine I you know been doing it for forever but I'd like to see the next step I'd like to see Apple go that full USB sea level it's pretty frustrating to travel around with all of these different cables when I'm starting to not need it my MacBook Pro uses USB see my iPad pro uses USB see even with the help of some accessories I can get my Apple watch to charge via a USB C cable the only thing I cannot do is use it on my iPhone I'm sure this is going to happen soon and maybe it will happen this year although rumors suggest 2020 might be a bit too soon as well but it's still worth mentioning that for me personally this is a flaw it's a minor flaw but it's still a flaw the last physical hardware change I'd like to see happen in the 2020 iPhone is one that most average consumers might not really care about but for me I like to see Apple ad promotion or a hundred and twenty Hertz refresh rate to the display as I mentioned earlier the iPhone 11 pros display is fantastic there's nothing wrong with it this isn't something that we need but it is a nice to have and since there are a lot of Android devices starting to accommodate 120 Hertz displays I would like to see Apple introduce it into its iPhone Apple introduced promotion to its iPad pro lineup - a few years ago and so bringing it to the iPhone might not be out of the question there's really no benefit again to having this in fact it could actually even drain your battery faster but for me personally I love that buttery smooth effect that you get while scrolling and navigating the UI and if game developers update their games to take advantage of the refresh rate like epic games did with fortnight and the iPad pro to maximize the 120 Hertz this could be a huge feature for mobile gamers out there as well also as a quick bonus change and I'm only briefly running through this because I don't think it's going to happen this year but if Apple decided to bring back touch ID in the form of an in display fingerprint sensor I would be super happy you all know my gripes with face ID at times and I know Apple tried to make a fix this past year for allowing more angles in which your face can be recognized but when your phone is lying on a flat surface it's still just as bad at recognizing your face as it ever was and when you want to just check a notification or something on your phone without having to pick it up or kind of hover over the table like you have to right now it's pretty hard to achieve this so a fingerprint sensor in conjunction with face ID would give users options and basically fix all of my issues again I don't think it's going to happen this year and while there have been rumors that it could happen in the future I'm not really holding my breath for this feature to happen anyways again these issues seem a very minor in the grand scheme of things because like I said before the iPhone 11 Pro has been a great device for my everyday use Apple did a fantastic job listening to its consumers over the past year and fixing the gripes that most people had and implementing real changes and features that people wanted to see and I really really hope that Apple continues this trend in the upcoming 20/20 iPhone of course I would love to know your thoughts let me know what you think about the 11 and the 11 Pro in the comment section down below also before we end today's video I want to give you more information about today's sponsor o WC o WC offers a wide range of products for your Mac like internal hard drives and SSDs memory Thunderbolt 3 docks etc with a lot of us working from home these days o WC has the perfect tools to help maximize your work from home setups like the Thunderbolt 3 dock for charging your Mac and adding options to plug in all of your peripherals and accessories quickly and easily lightning fast SSD external drives like the Envoy Pro e^x in one of my personal favorite devices the USBC travel doc even though we won't be doing a whole lot of traveling these days you can make your setup portable throughout your home with this five port dock that plugs directly into your macbook and expands your setup in more ways than ever before go ahead and visit the link in the description down below for more info regarding these products and to see everything else that OWCA has to offer this has been down with MacRumors thanks so much for watching and I hope to see you around in the next video youthis video is sponsored by OWCA it's been a little over six months since the iPhone 11 and the 11pro were released and I've been using it as my main device every single day since it launched back in September and so in this video I'm gonna give you some of my long-term thoughts over the last six-and-a-half ish months about the iPhone 11 pro max specifically since that's been the device that I've been using and then I'd like to tell you some of the things that I don't necessarily like about the phone and what I would like to see improved in the upcoming 20/20 iPhones before we get started be sure to subscribe and hit the bell to get notifications whenever we share a video the iPhone 11 pro max is a very good smartphone I really do want to start off by saying that because I think this video is going to focus more on what I'd like to see Apple do differently with the next iPhone and a few of the issues that I'm currently having with this one but I feel like it's important for me to preface this all by saying it's obviously the best iPhone that you can buy right now I'm a huge fan of the look and feel and even though I do think this massive camera bump is ridiculous you do get used to it and it becomes less of a big deal kind of like the notch and how that was a big deal you get over that pretty quickly personally if Apple did do a redesign I'd be totally on board with the square flat like frame that Apple originally used with its iPhone 4 and then they brought it back with the 2018 iPad pro performance with the a12 Bionic chip has been fantastic overall sure you've noticed a few weird glitches bugs and hiccups here and there like everyone else has but overall this phone is just as snappy powerful and fast as it was when it first launched gaming which I don't do a lot of but when I do it's a joy because there's really no problems with gaming on a phone like this and editing photos responding to lots and lots of emails taking tons of pictures editing a slideshow if you need to do that watching tons and tons of media on my 11pro big beautiful AMOLED display has been a great experience perhaps the big improvement from last year overall are the cameras not only did Apple add an additional ultra wide camera to the mix but the hardware and software tweaks that were made to help image processing have made a huge difference compared to the 10s and now the 11 Pro while I don't really use my Ultra wide camera a whole lot it's still a nice to have feature when you really need to capture more in frame and you just don't have the room and you don't want to step back you just hit that ultra wide sensor and you can get a whole lot more in the frame and the inclusion of night mode has made taking pictures in low-light scenarios or just even out at night with very little light around you an incredible experience photos taken at night are no longer in instant delete in my book which is what it used to be a couple of years ago whenever you take a photo at night the new sensors and software tweaks have made that feature incredible while overall there's certainly a lot of good with the iPhone 11 and the 11 Pro that doesn't mean there's not room for improvement for starters battery life started out excellent Apple even made the iPhone slightly thicker in order to accommodate a larger battery which we were all extremely happy about but over time it's been getting worse and worse yes I am aware this is how batteries work and that degradation happens but in the past it's not something that you would notice until a couple of years for using the phone not a couple of months I've noticed it draining faster and even my battery health is starting to take a hit for example on my iPhone 10 I've never noticed the battery percentage go down in the battery health part until at least a couple of you know months ago which that phone is about two years old same goes for my iPhone eight which my wife was using as her daily driver for a while and so with those going down to about 96 percent today my iPhone 11 sits at 97% this something just doesn't make any sense now that could mean nothing maybe there's a different way that Apple is measuring your performance and something could just be not accurate I don't know for sure but I am noticing that battery is draining faster and so that to me is kind of making me check the battery health more otherwise I never would have to look at it I've noticed other users and not just myself and other people and friends and I've talked to you have had similar issues now for me it could be something that I'm doing differently like maybe I'm using wireless charging a lot more which I actually am I don't think I've ever really used the lightning cord unless I was traveling but at home I exclusively use a wireless charger so that could be it and that is something new to what I've been doing with the 11pro over the past I phones that I've had not 100% sure on this again but obviously I'd love to open it up to discussion if you guys know would love to hear your thoughts in the comment section down below how's your iPhone's battery life doing so this brings me into charging your iPhone's battery and we've been doing it via the lightning cable which is fine I you know been doing it for forever but I'd like to see the next step I'd like to see Apple go that full USB sea level it's pretty frustrating to travel around with all of these different cables when I'm starting to not need it my MacBook Pro uses USB see my iPad pro uses USB see even with the help of some accessories I can get my Apple watch to charge via a USB C cable the only thing I cannot do is use it on my iPhone I'm sure this is going to happen soon and maybe it will happen this year although rumors suggest 2020 might be a bit too soon as well but it's still worth mentioning that for me personally this is a flaw it's a minor flaw but it's still a flaw the last physical hardware change I'd like to see happen in the 2020 iPhone is one that most average consumers might not really care about but for me I like to see Apple ad promotion or a hundred and twenty Hertz refresh rate to the display as I mentioned earlier the iPhone 11 pros display is fantastic there's nothing wrong with it this isn't something that we need but it is a nice to have and since there are a lot of Android devices starting to accommodate 120 Hertz displays I would like to see Apple introduce it into its iPhone Apple introduced promotion to its iPad pro lineup - a few years ago and so bringing it to the iPhone might not be out of the question there's really no benefit again to having this in fact it could actually even drain your battery faster but for me personally I love that buttery smooth effect that you get while scrolling and navigating the UI and if game developers update their games to take advantage of the refresh rate like epic games did with fortnight and the iPad pro to maximize the 120 Hertz this could be a huge feature for mobile gamers out there as well also as a quick bonus change and I'm only briefly running through this because I don't think it's going to happen this year but if Apple decided to bring back touch ID in the form of an in display fingerprint sensor I would be super happy you all know my gripes with face ID at times and I know Apple tried to make a fix this past year for allowing more angles in which your face can be recognized but when your phone is lying on a flat surface it's still just as bad at recognizing your face as it ever was and when you want to just check a notification or something on your phone without having to pick it up or kind of hover over the table like you have to right now it's pretty hard to achieve this so a fingerprint sensor in conjunction with face ID would give users options and basically fix all of my issues again I don't think it's going to happen this year and while there have been rumors that it could happen in the future I'm not really holding my breath for this feature to happen anyways again these issues seem a very minor in the grand scheme of things because like I said before the iPhone 11 Pro has been a great device for my everyday use Apple did a fantastic job listening to its consumers over the past year and fixing the gripes that most people had and implementing real changes and features that people wanted to see and I really really hope that Apple continues this trend in the upcoming 20/20 iPhone of course I would love to know your thoughts let me know what you think about the 11 and the 11 Pro in the comment section down below also before we end today's video I want to give you more information about today's sponsor o WC o WC offers a wide range of products for your Mac like internal hard drives and SSDs memory Thunderbolt 3 docks etc with a lot of us working from home these days o WC has the perfect tools to help maximize your work from home setups like the Thunderbolt 3 dock for charging your Mac and adding options to plug in all of your peripherals and accessories quickly and easily lightning fast SSD external drives like the Envoy Pro e^x in one of my personal favorite devices the USBC travel doc even though we won't be doing a whole lot of traveling these days you can make your setup portable throughout your home with this five port dock that plugs directly into your macbook and expands your setup in more ways than ever before go ahead and visit the link in the description down below for more info regarding these products and to see everything else that OWCA has to offer this has been down with MacRumors thanks so much for watching and I hope to see you around in the next video you\n"