![]() ![]() On the whole, the XS Max’s cameras are great. It’s a criticism that has been levelled at iPhones before, but on the XS Max, with all that extra screen, you’ll notice the smoothing even more than usual. It does have a tendency to smooth out textures, though. ![]() The front camera captures colors pretty well, and maintains a good level of accuracy. Again, it’s a pretty good selfie-snapper, but can’t match the images from the Pixel 3 XL. Round the front, you have the same 7Mp TrueDepth face-sensing camera from the iPhone X and iPhone XS. The rear cameras on the iPhone XS Max are great, but they’re not quite as good as Google’s all-conquering Pixel 3 XL. On the whole, the Smart HDR feature works brilliantly, but sometimes it can’t live up to its own hype. By capturing multiple frames of the same image at different exposure levels and stitching them together, the tech is supposed to deepen shadows, and enhance color and light. This is largely down to the Smart HDR feature, which has been added to the XS and XS Max. There is a tendency for some images to look overexposed, and the XS Max’s camera software occasionally ramp up color saturation unnecessarily. Thanks to some smart software, you get daytime shots with lots of color, good detail, and a relative absence of noise. The rear cameras are two 12Mp shooters with one wide angle lens and one telephoto lens, and they take pretty great pictures. The iPhone XS Max uses exactly the same cameras that you’d find on the smaller, cheaper iPhone XS. The under-utilization of the extra screen feels even more disappointing when split-screen functionality is already available in the iOS operating system – Apple uses it extensively on iPads to help pitch them as laptop replacements, for example. It’s taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The extra screen isn’t utilized to its fullest, and as a result, it makes the XS Max feel a bit lumpen. The Samsung Note 9, for example, has great multitasking functionality, which allows you to display two apps in an over-and-under arrangement for easier on-the-go work.Įverything on the XS Max is, simply, bigger. However, the extra screen size afforded to the XS Max generally feels, well, wasted. Secondly, it makes watching videos or playing games even more enjoyable. Firstly, it makes productivity tasks easier, such as reviewing documents or reading and writing emails. Having a phone screen this large definitely has its advantages. The XS Max’s beefed-up body gives it almost an inch of extra screen size compared to the regular XS. The extra width makes one-handed holding, let alone one-handed use, significantly more challenging. Again, that might not sound like a lot, but it makes the iPhone feel slightly more ungainly. It’s a full millimeter wider than the Note 9 and 0.7mm wider than the Pixel 3 XL. One area where the XS Max does fall down is in its width. This extra weight largely comes from the stainless steel clasp that holds the front and rear glass together, and this extra heft lends the XS Max a more solid, well-built feel. That might not sound like much, but in hand, you definitely notice the XS Max’s extra heft. The XS Max is 7g heavier than the Note 9 and 24g heavier than the Pixel 3 XL. ![]() For reference, that makes the XS Max 4 mm smaller than the Samsung Note 9 and 1 mm smaller than Google’s Pixel 3 XL, while packing a screen that is 0.1-inch and 0.2-inches bigger than those phones, respectively. ![]() It stands at 157.5mm tall (6.2-inches) and features a 6.5-inch screen on the diagonal. The most noticable difference between the XS Max and other iPhones is simply the size of the device. You get the same large capsule-shaped camera bump as the XS, and some light-touch Apple and iPhone branding.īoth glass panels are flanked by a curved stainless steel band, which also houses a single lightning port and no headphone jack. The glass rear is available in three distinctly iPhone colors: Silver, Space Gray and Gold. The front is nearly all-screen, with only the notch and a little chin getting in the way of the OLED display. The iPhone XS Max follows the same design language as the iPhone XS, the XR, and the X before it. ![]()
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