![]() The camera on the iPhone XS Max is one of the best in the business, and a marked improvement on last year’s iPhones. But these changes aren’t as useful as the enormous wealth of productivity features put into phones with screens this large by Samsung. The Settings app also adopts an iPad-style view in landscape. ![]() When in landscape there’s a slide-out inbox selector in Mail, chat selector in Messages, Reminders and Contacts get a split-screen view, while Calendar gets an iPad-style Day, Week, Month, Year selector and new view. A few of Apple’s apps have a few more features compared to the smaller iPhone XS. ![]() There’s no split-screen multitasking or anything of that ilk. One of the downsides with the iPhone XS Max is how little Apple has made of the large screen in software. Siri Shortcuts, an extra app you can download, also allows power-user automation should you want it, setting up custom routines and trigger words you can utter to Siri. The big addition is a set of wellbeing tools, alongside much better group notifications, which can be dismissed in one go. The differences in how they behave come down to the gesture-based navigation that was introduced with the iPhone X last year, and not a lot has changed because iOS 12 concentrated on optimisation over new features. The iPhone 5S, released in 2013, runs the same version of iOS as the iPhone XS Max. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianĪpple’s strength is that it pushes software updates to phones for a long time. Messages has a chat selector split-screen on landscape, which is only one of a few tweaks made to iOS for the large screen size. This year’s Samsung’s Galaxy S9+ only lasted 26 hours and the Note 9 only 25 hours, so it seems we’ve taken a step back in battery life in 2018. The Lightning connector in the bottom is still the fastest way to charge the phone, with a full charge taking around two hours using an optional fast charger and USB-C cable.įor perspective the iPhone X lasted for 30 hours under the same conditions, while last year’s Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro lasted 50 hours. That was while using it as my primary device sending and receiving hundreds of emails, messages and push notifications, listening to five hours of music on Bluetooth headphones, watching an hour of Netflix and shooting around 10 or so photos a day. It lasted just over 27 hours between charges, starting at 7am on day one and lasting right through till past 10am on day two. It will get through the daylight hours without issue, but it won’t rival the Huaweis of this world. The battery life of the iPhone XS Max was slightly disappointing. But as with other recent iPhone upgrades, the raw power will only likely come into its own with new software, speeding up AR experiences and other bits and pieces behind the scenes. In day-to-day operation it’s not noticeably faster than the iPhone X, which already feels snappy and responsive with iOS 12. But it is the integrated AI chip that is up to nine times faster than the old one that apparently makes all the difference. The iPhone XS Max has Apple’s latest processor, the six-core A12 Bionic, which the company says is 15% faster than last year’s A11 Bionic and up to 50% more efficient. The holes in the bottom of the phone are no longer symmetrical, get over it. ![]() Screen: 6.5in Super Retina HD (OLED) (458ppi)Ĭamera: Dual 12MP rear cameras with OIS, 7MP front-facing cameraĬonnectivity: LTE, Wi-Fiac, NFC, Bluetooth 5, Lightning and GPS Unless you have abnormally large hands, the iPhone XS Max is therefore almost exclusively a two-handed phone, even with Apple’s reachability, which brings the top of the screen down to the middle – try and use it with one hand at your peril, as this metal and glass sandwich will smash if you drop it. ![]() Others taper to an edge of some sort along the sides, which gives your fingers purchase. Yes, they look and feel luxurious in stainless steel, but they’re difficult to get a solid grip on with your fingers. But the biggest difference between the iPhone and the rest is Apple’s use of rounded sides. That’s partly because it’s marginally wider than the competition at 77.4mm wide, which is 1mm wider than the Note 9 and a full 3.6mm wider than the S9+. The thing is the iPhone XS Max is actually one of the more difficult super-sized phones to handle. The iPhone XS Max is certainly a big phone, but at 7.7mm thick it’s thinner than all of the current top-end phones, including the 8.8mm thick Samsung Galaxy Note 9.Īt 157.5mm long the iPhone XS Max is also shorter than even phones with much smaller screens such as the 6in Google Pixel 2 XL (157.9mm long), the 6.2in Samsung Galaxy S9+ (158.1mm long) and is a full 4.4mm shorter than the Note 9. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianĪpple’s biggest achievement is that the colossal screen has been squeezed into a body that isn’t that enormous. The iPhone XS on the left, the iPhone XS Max on the right. ![]()
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