While you can make a place for every app on each home screen and nest apps within folders of your own design – as before – that’s no longer a compulsory part of the iOS experience. Perhaps the biggest departure is how apps reside on your home screens. You’ll likely seldom encounter these whilst using the Max in the day-to-day but to know that it at least now supports the feature is enough of a benefit in its own right. The process to browse and add app widgets isn’t as seamless as on Android – which has had a lot more time to practice – what’s more, they behave differently to the old widgets that only lived on iOS’ Today View in the past.Īpp Clips are another new feature lifted from Android’s playbook, with snippets of apps that you may not have installed, running in self-contained instances to bring additional functionality, only as and when you need it. Be prepared to dig out your old Lightning-laden EarPods, invest in a 3.5mm adapter or splash out on Bluetooth cans or buds. It should come as no surprise that in most markets the Pro Max comes without headphones or any form of audio adapter in-box. As such, pick up a screen protector if you want to truly shield one of the most fragile parts of this premium purchase. While I wasn’t prepared to toss the Pro Max down a flight of stairs to find out, reports from those who have put the tech to the test suggest that – as you might expect – as shatter and shock resistance increases, scratch resistance concedes.Īpple makes mention of a “dual ion-exchange process” to combat such wear and tear but no matter how many ceramic nanoparticles sit within the phone’s glass front, it’s still partially made of glass and appears to scratch as you’d expect. We’ll have to wait and see.īeyond viewing experience, the Pro Max is also among the first generation of iPhones to feature what Apple is calling ‘Ceramic Shield’, which manifests as ceramic-impregnated cover glass that’s supposedly “tougher than any smartphone glass” and apparently four times more drop-resistant (when paired with the phone’s new flat-faced design). Thankfully, through both software and touch responsiveness, the gap between 60Hz visuals and higher refresh rates on rival devices seems so much smaller where iPhones are concerned, so the absence of 90Hz (and up) doesn’t sting quite so much, particularly when every other aspect of the viewing experience on the Pro Max is so good.Ĭonsidering you’re paying Pro Max money, it’s frustrating that Apple didn’t implement its 120Hz ProMotion technology into this device but that’s perhaps a characteristically Apple move designed to showcase a more noticeable leap forward in next year’s iPhones. In Android land, rivals sell phones with 90Hz, 120Hz and even 144Hz high refresh rate displays, and a flagship phone asking for flagship money with a display that tops out at 60Hz has to work particularly hard to justify such an omission (see the aforementioned Xperia 1 II). On the other, it’s hard not to argue that – at least on paper – 60Hz just doesn’t cut the mustard for a top-shelf 2020 device. On the one hand, there wasn’t a lot to complain about with the similarly-specced screen used by the 11 Pro Max and the same is true here the fact that the panel is even larger (and flatter), without a drop in pixel density, can only be a good thing for media lovers and mobile gamers considering the 12 Pro Max.
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