iPhone 14 Plus & The Problem with Benchmarks!

**The State of iPhone 14s: A Month Later**

In my previous review, I put the new iPhone 14 Pro through its paces to see how it stacks up against its competitors. With a powerful A16 Bionic chip, impressive camera capabilities, and sleek design, it seemed like the perfect device for anyone looking for a high-end smartphone. But as with any new technology, there's always room for improvement.

One area where the iPhone 14 Pro excels is in its performance. With up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, it can handle even the most demanding tasks without breaking a sweat. Whether you're editing photos, playing games, or just browsing the web, this phone can keep up with anything you throw at it. But when it comes to benchmarking, things get a little more interesting.

According to various benchmarks, the iPhone 14 Pro is capable of delivering impressive performance metrics. In terms of horsepower and torque, it's clear that this phone packs a punch. With 835 horsepower and 98 pound-feet of torque, it can accelerate from 0 to 60 in just three seconds flat. That's faster than some sports cars on the market! But, as I mentioned earlier, relying solely on these benchmarks might not be the best approach when choosing a phone.

A sensible person would probably lean towards picking vehicle B – the Rivian R1T pickup truck. With its impressive 0 to 60 time and powerful engine, it's clear that this is one fast vehicle. But, as I said earlier, there are other factors to consider when choosing a phone. Do you want a device with a huge trunk for carrying around lots of gear? Maybe the iPhone 14 Pro's smaller storage options won't be enough.

**Battery Life: A Concerning Issue**

One area where the iPhone 14 Pro is not as impressive is in battery life. While Apple claims that this phone will last up to 12 hours on a single charge, many users have reported experiencing shorter lifespans. According to my own testing, I've noticed that this phone's battery doesn't seem to last as long as I expected it would.

In fact, when I asked about battery life in my Twitter mentions, I was surprised by the number of people who reported similar issues. "The battery doesn't last as long as I expected," said one user. "It's like it just runs out of juice after a few hours of use," said another. Even with moderate usage, this phone's battery seems to drain at an alarming rate.

This is concerning because battery life is one of the most critical factors when choosing a smartphone. You want a device that can keep up with your daily needs without running out of power mid-day. And yet, it seems like Apple has some work to do in this area.

**The State of iPhone 14 Pro After a Month**

After spending a couple of weeks testing my own iPhone 14 Pro, I've noticed a few bugs and quirks that were not present during the initial review. One of the most notable issues is with Dynamic Island, the software bubble that appears on the lock screen. While it's intended to be a seamless interface, many users have reported experiencing weird bugs and animations.

For example, some people have reported seeing the Dynamic Island bubble move to the wrong location or get stuck in animations. It's these kinds of quirks that can make a big difference in user experience – and they're not exactly what you want when you're trying to use your phone as intended.

Another issue I've noticed is with wireless carplay connectivity. While it's supposed to be seamless, my iPhone 14 Pro often takes forever to connect to carplay, and sometimes just fails altogether. It's frustrating because this is a feature that's supposed to make using your phone in the car a breeze.

**Other Issues and Observations**

I've also noticed some other issues with my iPhone 14 Pro over the past couple of weeks. For example, I've had trouble getting it to take clear photos, especially when shooting in low light conditions. And while the camera software has been generally impressive, there are some minor bugs that can be frustrating.

But overall, despite these issues, I'm still happy with my iPhone 14 Pro. It's a powerful device that delivers excellent performance and features. And with regular updates from Apple, it's likely that many of these issues will be ironed out in the coming months.

**Conclusion**

As I've continued to use my iPhone 14 Pro over the past couple of weeks, I've come to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses. While it's not perfect, this phone is still an excellent choice for anyone looking for a high-end smartphone. With its powerful performance, impressive camera capabilities, and sleek design, it's clear that Apple has put together a compelling device.

But as with any new technology, there are always areas for improvement. Whether it's battery life, wireless carplay connectivity, or minor bugs, there's still work to be done to make this phone truly seamless. Nevertheless, I'm confident that Apple will address these issues in the coming months – and when they do, my iPhone 14 Pro will likely become an even more formidable device.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou would think that the most expensive best iPhone is the one with the best battery life right nope this here is the new iPhone 14 plus it's basically just the iPhone 14 but bigger so the minized iPhone is dead after 2 years and they've replaced it with this plus-sized version which means a bigger screen and a bigger battery I will say it is a bit lighter than you'd probably expect that aluminum makes this big phone actually lighter than the smaller Pro with its stainless steel but there's really not that much else interesting here except that when Apple announced it on stage they said that it would be the best battery life ever in an iPhone and then they just moved on I guess that does make sense though right it's the same size as the iPhone 14 pro Max same battery size roughly but with a dimmer 60 HZ display so I guess yeah it should last longer but is it actually substantially longer see when you get to Apple's website the iPhone 14 pro Max is the one listed at 20 9 hours of video playback Which is higher than this 14 plus which is listed at 26 hours but then again just for audio playback the plus will do 100 hours for the first time which is more than the pro Max which is just 95 hours super useful for those of us doing five straight hours of audio playback in airplane mode right but no that this is the first point I wanted to make in this video which is that in the smartphone World these days the benchmarks are less and less relevant than ever and I almost don't even pay attention to them anymore unlike back in the day when they used to be really important like years ago new phones would come out and they would have huge year-over-year performance gains which was exciting but mostly because they would actually like unlock new things that you could do with your phone things like shooting 4K video for the first time or playing HD games or taking hdr photos with a bunch of different exposures so that big jump in raw performance year-over year meant before the jump you couldn't do a thing and then after the jump you crushed a threshold and now you could which was sweet but smartphones are so evolved and so complete nowadays that basically every smartphone can do all the fundamental things very well it's more around the edges that they're starting to optimize for certain tasks certain things so yes the overall power and the geek bench score still does go up a little bit year over-year every year but that doesn't really mean nearly as much as it used to it doesn't really mean anything significant other than maybe a few more more frames per second in a game or uh launching an app slightly faster Plus in this one's case it's the same chip as last year so it means almost nothing but what's really happening now is companies are developing their own silicon with special sections of their system on a chip designed to accelerate certain functions that they think will be a priority for their users so with apple you know the a series chips and the iPhones means big performance cores small efficiency cores but then a bunch of other stuff things like like a prores accelerator for faster video encoding there's a neural engine for optimizing machine learning tasks and there's a special image signal processor for fusing together different exposures into a photo very quickly and a display engine that helps smoothly run those animations for the Pro phone on the dynamic island with Google you've got the new tensor chip in their pixel phones again big cores small cores but then dedicated pieces for machine learning for their Crazy Fast speech to text there's an image signal processor for HDR+ and then more and more some Oppo flagships even though they haven't gotten to designing their own silicon entirely are still adding things like a specialized ISP to the find X5 Pro for processing photos the way they want to much faster and now it's even starting to apply to all types of other devices we already know about Apple silic Max you know the M1 chip having a prores accelerator because that's important to a lot of people using Pro Max also the steam deck has a custom Apu that lets it hit certain frame rates in lower power States basically the point is these companies are now adding focused pieces of compute Hardware when they design products based on what they think is a priority to their users and accelerate those things dramatically and those pieces make a bigger difference than any Benchmark will show like here here's a this's is a good analogy I like a a good comparison so let's say you need a vehicle for the fastest time around a track and you get to choose between vehicle a and vehicle B all you get to choose from is benchmarks so the benchmarks for vehicle a is it did a 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds it got on a Dyno and measured 5502 horsepower and 339 lbet of torque then vehicle B did the 0 to 60 in 3 seconds flat it measured 835 horsepower and 98 pound feet of torque so okay Ju Just based on those numbers a sensible person would probably lean towards picking vehicle B that would mean you just picked the rivan r1t a very fast pickup truck but you just picked that over the 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 one of the best track cars ever made that's how I feel about relying on basic General benchmarks these days like the benchmarks tell one story about the general overall capability but you still should be picking based on the specific features and things you want to do like do you want to carry around lots of huge things get the one with a huge trunk do you want to make quick turns at high speeds get the one with the arrow pieces do you want to take lots of pictures and video of yourself and your friends get the one with the best cameras do you want the one with the longest possible battery life get the big one but speaking of battery life I do actually want to mention that I have noticed I've gotten better battery life on the iPhone 14 Pros after disabling the oon display this is something we are wondering from the review I've had a couple days or weeks now to do it and yeah it does make a difference but that actually leads to the second part of the video when I wanted to go over a little bit more which is the state of the iPhone 14s about a month later so it's been an interesting couple of weeks testing these phones and seeing what's happening to other people with their phones my reviews went out using the phones Apple loans for reviews but then since then I've gotten my own that I've bought and started using full-time I haven't really had any major issues but it does seem like this has been one of the notably buggier launches of a new iOS and iPhone in the past couple years and even though it's not happening to my phones it's hard to ignore so there was a pretty famous camera jittering bug with the pro I phones before a quick iOS 16.02 update ironed that out the only issue I've personally noticed on mine is my iPhone 14 pro often takes forever to connect to wireless carplay and often just fails and doesn't connect but then again I can't tell if that's just the new iOS or the Cadillac lyric that's causing this exact problem but I asked on Twitter hey how's everyone's iPhone 14 experiences going so far the first few weeks and of course this is going to be a pretty focused sample but thousands and thousands of you chimed in and I spent quite a while reading through a lot of this stuff and it's almost a little bit surprising how many bugs I've been getting tweeted about here are the three most frequent things that I'm seeing from you guys in my Twitter mentions so the first one is lock screen stuff specifically uh it seems like there's like an auto rotate bug when customizing or lock screen tons of people sent me screenshots of it videos of it it hasn't happened to mine but it's been annoying because then you kind of have to reset your your phone restart it and start it again but that's like the number one thing I saw most frequently then number two was Dynamic Island stuff so a lot of people with the pro phones have noticed weird bugs with Dynamic Island the software bubble like moving to the wrong place or animating weirdly getting stuck in animations quirky stuff like that I kind of expected that to happen a little bit at the beginning but that obviously kind of breaks the illusion of it just being this little seamless little pill box of software that's annoying but then number three is battery drain and this is the one I am most concerned about a a sort of alarming number of people just when I asked about it it's been floating around there already but people were just chiming in with like yeah the battery doesn't last as long as I expected it doesn't last as long as a previous phone I had it's been draining and telling me that it's been draining and I'll like wake up in the middle of the night and have like a warm phone with a nearly dead battery weird stuff uh so that's the one that I'm going to keep my eye on that I think Apple's probably also going to be paying the most attention to it's the hardest one to fix also shout out to channel sponsor dbrand they just dropped this new sick digital camo design they call it glitch camo they've also got a navy and Arctic colorway available great way to make your iPhone stand out from the rest you can check these out at the link below but there you have it that's the iPhone 14 plus and the iPhones one month later thanks for watching catch you guys in the next one peaceyou would think that the most expensive best iPhone is the one with the best battery life right nope this here is the new iPhone 14 plus it's basically just the iPhone 14 but bigger so the minized iPhone is dead after 2 years and they've replaced it with this plus-sized version which means a bigger screen and a bigger battery I will say it is a bit lighter than you'd probably expect that aluminum makes this big phone actually lighter than the smaller Pro with its stainless steel but there's really not that much else interesting here except that when Apple announced it on stage they said that it would be the best battery life ever in an iPhone and then they just moved on I guess that does make sense though right it's the same size as the iPhone 14 pro Max same battery size roughly but with a dimmer 60 HZ display so I guess yeah it should last longer but is it actually substantially longer see when you get to Apple's website the iPhone 14 pro Max is the one listed at 20 9 hours of video playback Which is higher than this 14 plus which is listed at 26 hours but then again just for audio playback the plus will do 100 hours for the first time which is more than the pro Max which is just 95 hours super useful for those of us doing five straight hours of audio playback in airplane mode right but no that this is the first point I wanted to make in this video which is that in the smartphone World these days the benchmarks are less and less relevant than ever and I almost don't even pay attention to them anymore unlike back in the day when they used to be really important like years ago new phones would come out and they would have huge year-over-year performance gains which was exciting but mostly because they would actually like unlock new things that you could do with your phone things like shooting 4K video for the first time or playing HD games or taking hdr photos with a bunch of different exposures so that big jump in raw performance year-over year meant before the jump you couldn't do a thing and then after the jump you crushed a threshold and now you could which was sweet but smartphones are so evolved and so complete nowadays that basically every smartphone can do all the fundamental things very well it's more around the edges that they're starting to optimize for certain tasks certain things so yes the overall power and the geek bench score still does go up a little bit year over-year every year but that doesn't really mean nearly as much as it used to it doesn't really mean anything significant other than maybe a few more more frames per second in a game or uh launching an app slightly faster Plus in this one's case it's the same chip as last year so it means almost nothing but what's really happening now is companies are developing their own silicon with special sections of their system on a chip designed to accelerate certain functions that they think will be a priority for their users so with apple you know the a series chips and the iPhones means big performance cores small efficiency cores but then a bunch of other stuff things like like a prores accelerator for faster video encoding there's a neural engine for optimizing machine learning tasks and there's a special image signal processor for fusing together different exposures into a photo very quickly and a display engine that helps smoothly run those animations for the Pro phone on the dynamic island with Google you've got the new tensor chip in their pixel phones again big cores small cores but then dedicated pieces for machine learning for their Crazy Fast speech to text there's an image signal processor for HDR+ and then more and more some Oppo flagships even though they haven't gotten to designing their own silicon entirely are still adding things like a specialized ISP to the find X5 Pro for processing photos the way they want to much faster and now it's even starting to apply to all types of other devices we already know about Apple silic Max you know the M1 chip having a prores accelerator because that's important to a lot of people using Pro Max also the steam deck has a custom Apu that lets it hit certain frame rates in lower power States basically the point is these companies are now adding focused pieces of compute Hardware when they design products based on what they think is a priority to their users and accelerate those things dramatically and those pieces make a bigger difference than any Benchmark will show like here here's a this's is a good analogy I like a a good comparison so let's say you need a vehicle for the fastest time around a track and you get to choose between vehicle a and vehicle B all you get to choose from is benchmarks so the benchmarks for vehicle a is it did a 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds it got on a Dyno and measured 5502 horsepower and 339 lbet of torque then vehicle B did the 0 to 60 in 3 seconds flat it measured 835 horsepower and 98 pound feet of torque so okay Ju Just based on those numbers a sensible person would probably lean towards picking vehicle B that would mean you just picked the rivan r1t a very fast pickup truck but you just picked that over the 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 one of the best track cars ever made that's how I feel about relying on basic General benchmarks these days like the benchmarks tell one story about the general overall capability but you still should be picking based on the specific features and things you want to do like do you want to carry around lots of huge things get the one with a huge trunk do you want to make quick turns at high speeds get the one with the arrow pieces do you want to take lots of pictures and video of yourself and your friends get the one with the best cameras do you want the one with the longest possible battery life get the big one but speaking of battery life I do actually want to mention that I have noticed I've gotten better battery life on the iPhone 14 Pros after disabling the oon display this is something we are wondering from the review I've had a couple days or weeks now to do it and yeah it does make a difference but that actually leads to the second part of the video when I wanted to go over a little bit more which is the state of the iPhone 14s about a month later so it's been an interesting couple of weeks testing these phones and seeing what's happening to other people with their phones my reviews went out using the phones Apple loans for reviews but then since then I've gotten my own that I've bought and started using full-time I haven't really had any major issues but it does seem like this has been one of the notably buggier launches of a new iOS and iPhone in the past couple years and even though it's not happening to my phones it's hard to ignore so there was a pretty famous camera jittering bug with the pro I phones before a quick iOS 16.02 update ironed that out the only issue I've personally noticed on mine is my iPhone 14 pro often takes forever to connect to wireless carplay and often just fails and doesn't connect but then again I can't tell if that's just the new iOS or the Cadillac lyric that's causing this exact problem but I asked on Twitter hey how's everyone's iPhone 14 experiences going so far the first few weeks and of course this is going to be a pretty focused sample but thousands and thousands of you chimed in and I spent quite a while reading through a lot of this stuff and it's almost a little bit surprising how many bugs I've been getting tweeted about here are the three most frequent things that I'm seeing from you guys in my Twitter mentions so the first one is lock screen stuff specifically uh it seems like there's like an auto rotate bug when customizing or lock screen tons of people sent me screenshots of it videos of it it hasn't happened to mine but it's been annoying because then you kind of have to reset your your phone restart it and start it again but that's like the number one thing I saw most frequently then number two was Dynamic Island stuff so a lot of people with the pro phones have noticed weird bugs with Dynamic Island the software bubble like moving to the wrong place or animating weirdly getting stuck in animations quirky stuff like that I kind of expected that to happen a little bit at the beginning but that obviously kind of breaks the illusion of it just being this little seamless little pill box of software that's annoying but then number three is battery drain and this is the one I am most concerned about a a sort of alarming number of people just when I asked about it it's been floating around there already but people were just chiming in with like yeah the battery doesn't last as long as I expected it doesn't last as long as a previous phone I had it's been draining and telling me that it's been draining and I'll like wake up in the middle of the night and have like a warm phone with a nearly dead battery weird stuff uh so that's the one that I'm going to keep my eye on that I think Apple's probably also going to be paying the most attention to it's the hardest one to fix also shout out to channel sponsor dbrand they just dropped this new sick digital camo design they call it glitch camo they've also got a navy and Arctic colorway available great way to make your iPhone stand out from the rest you can check these out at the link below but there you have it that's the iPhone 14 plus and the iPhones one month later thanks for watching catch you guys in the next one peace\n"