Very true. I got caught up in the dynamic island hype, and while it is pretty good for what it does, it’s still just a marketing tool. But like you said, hindsight is 20/20. I’ll enjoy my 14 PM until I get the 15 PM.
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Yeah, i think the 15 will be the phone to hold on for longer just like 13PM - possibly easily 2-3 years until battery dies. I wish i knew before spending $480 for upgrade.
Did you just recently upgrade? I’m sorry if you mentioned earlier, I didn’t read all messages in this forum.
So we upgraded my wife day 1 - 256gb 13pm to 256gb 14pm; that was exactly $480($720 13pm trade in + 480 to get equivalent 14pm for 256gb for $1200). No doubt, 48mp Raw photos are night and day difference but wife is not using lightroom to edit those, so missed feature. I already mentioned that dynamic island is irritating to my taste. On top of that, she had 13.5 hrs battery life doing all the same gaming and active use, now we have only 9.5-10hrs when new on 14pm.
I’m happy with the pro 14. Considering I only just got it in May this phone will at least do me quite well for a 3-5 years at least.
Gotcha. I don’t use my phone much to take pictures, but the quality difference is noticeable between the 13 PM and 14 PM. Dynamic island is a big reason why I got the 14. While it was weird at first, I much prefer it to the notch, but to each their own. My 13 was a battery champ, the 14 not so much. I hope the 15 is like the 13 in terms of battery life.
I'm still on my 11 but definitely upgrading to the 15 Pro Max and I'm very excited! I'm confident I'm going to notice a fairly big jump! My wife is also still on her 11 she literally doesn't care about phones (or any tech) and would happily keep her 11, she has no reason to upgrade other than the battery being pretty poor now so I could easily just get her battery changed and she'd be happy to keep her 11...but I'm going to upgrade her to a 15 (maybe a pro depending on price difference but she won't care about the feature differences between the standard 15 and pro), purely because then we'll both have USB-C. I couldn't cope with one of us having lightning and one of us have USB-C.
We drive each other's cars (which both need to be plugged in for CarPlay) and although I know we could rely on Magsafe/wireless charging, it would just complicate my life having to carry different cables everywhere.
We can then give our 11's to our two young kids because we bought them Kindle Fire kids last year but they're terrible and I NEED to get the kids in to the apple eco-system so their devices are easier to manage but can't afford over £500 on two iPads!.....I wish apple did an 'iPad Kids' which is just plastic (because it'll go in a silicon case like the kindle fire kids) and has older internals but was priced at something like £199 because I'd pay that just so I can get them into the apple eco-system. It could use a processor from 2 or 3 years ago, same for the camera, it really wouldn't matter but I just need an apple device so I can get them on iCloud and iOS. The Kindle is physically great with the case etc.. and is cheap but the OS and the management of it sucks! So for now, they'll have our iPhone 11's and I might consider getting the batteries replaced.
Eitherway, I am very excited to order a 15 Pro Max for the first time ever!
We drive each other's cars (which both need to be plugged in for CarPlay) and although I know we could rely on Magsafe/wireless charging, it would just complicate my life having to carry different cables everywhere.
We can then give our 11's to our two young kids because we bought them Kindle Fire kids last year but they're terrible and I NEED to get the kids in to the apple eco-system so their devices are easier to manage but can't afford over £500 on two iPads!.....I wish apple did an 'iPad Kids' which is just plastic (because it'll go in a silicon case like the kindle fire kids) and has older internals but was priced at something like £199 because I'd pay that just so I can get them into the apple eco-system. It could use a processor from 2 or 3 years ago, same for the camera, it really wouldn't matter but I just need an apple device so I can get them on iCloud and iOS. The Kindle is physically great with the case etc.. and is cheap but the OS and the management of it sucks! So for now, they'll have our iPhone 11's and I might consider getting the batteries replaced.
Eitherway, I am very excited to order a 15 Pro Max for the first time ever!
I have 11 as well and my wife 14 pm. I did have previously 13 regular and let me tell you that 13 was faster in terms of internet and apple pay. Overall, i think upgrade to anything after 11 is worth it.
Off topic obviously, but have you looked for deals on 9th gen iPads? Amazon has had them for $249. I’m not sure where you are though, and if that would apply, but it’s a pretty good deal since they’re fairly new, and would last a while.
I got my kids the 9th generation iPads for cyber Monday last year and paid under $500 for both of them, and of course that was at Amazon.
I have the 14 pro max but with current trade in deals, I only end up paying like $150 max to pay for latest model.
A few months ago, I was 100% certain I wasn’t going to upgrade, but last month I changed my mind and said I was going to upgrade.
Well that’s disappointing. One can never see enough of that. 😛
I have a 12 Pro and am seriously thinking about upgrading. I'm in France and have heard that there might not have sim trays like in the USA . How difficult is it to switch to eSim ? Anyone french here who did it with a 14 last year who could tell me ? I'm on Orange France
Currently have a 13 Pro Max with 1TB and I think I’m going to upgrade to the 15 Pro Max with 1TB. Currently sitting at 522GB on this device, so I think should be good.
Maybe I could/should delete some of the 30K pictures/videos in my camera roll while waiting for the keynote?
Maybe I could/should delete some of the 30K pictures/videos in my camera roll while waiting for the keynote?
Sounds good. If you do delete your folders, then put them on a hard drive like I do external one that way you can put them back if you want. But I think the 15 promax might come with a 2 TB storage option. If so, that would be cool.
I heard the 2TB rumor and that would be more than substantial until maybe the iPhone 18/19 haha. I hardly shoot RAW images with my iPhone but I do sometimes shoot with my Sony and transfer to iPhone to edit, even when I should/could do it on my iPad Pro.
Yeah, I understand that. But I’m guessing that they’re providing the 2 TB possibly for extended video recording for people that make movies on the phone Especially when using ProRes, it takes up a lot of space. I have the 14 Pro Max one terabyte model, and I still have 860 something gigs available even though all of my photos are taken in ProRAW. I don’t shoot much video, I’m not very well-versed in that medium right now. I can shoot a video just fine but haven’t really fully learned how to edit them very well.