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The jump in CPU performance is mirrored in synthetic benchmarks, with only a slight improvement in Geekbench 4. See below for more detailed benchmark scores. There are more significant improvements in graphical performance – but, again, they’re hard to really feel. Apple is pushing AR (augmented reality) heavily here, and in some instances it’s cool. But for much of the time, it just feels like a throwaway gimmick.
Each and every ‘intensive’ game I played during the review process ran without any dropped frames or issues of any kind. Games such as Fortnite and Asphalt 9 open up marginally faster than on the iPhone X and iPhone 7, but in all honesty, there’s very little in the App Store that can take advantage of all this horsepower. This appears to be a deliberate move on Apple’s part, with the company ensuring its handsets continue to be ahead for speed over the next few years.
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When you consider that Apple has only just stopped selling the four-year-old iPhone 6S, with that phone still able to run exceptionally well with iOS 12, it’s clear the company is planning for the future. The A12 Bionic also has an updated ‘secure enclave’ inside it, and combined with the CPU improvements this leads to faster, more reliable Face ID. Whether or not Face ID is a viable alternative to Touch ID will likely be down to your personal taste. Personally, I prefer it: it’s faster, works in a wider range of situations, and allows for a cleaner design. Others, including numerous folk who have used the phone during the review period, think differently.
They’d revert to the fingerprint sensor without a second thought. Moving away from the A12, there are plenty of other performance boosts with the iPhone XS Max. The speakers are louder and clearer than any previous iPhone, comfortably matching the best-sounding Android handsets out there. It’s still the same setup as before: there’s one downward-firing speaker next to the lightning port, and another one pointing towards you housed in the notch. However, Apple has levelled out the sound so that the downward speaker is no longer the more powerful.
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Gigabit-class LTE is available for supported carriers, and there’s an extra antenna on the phone to handle this. I’ve compared both Wi-Fi and data speeds to an iPhone X, and Samsung Galaxy S9 seems to achieve the best speeds, with the iPhone X and iPhone XS Max on a par with one another. Dual-SIM support is finally included – but, in typical Apple fashion, it comes with some caveats. Unless you live in China, the iPhone XS Max won’t come with two distinct SIM-card slots. Instead, it uses a single traditional slot and a secondary eSIM that appears to focus on roaming.
It will work similarly to cellular iPads, letting you alter carriers and plans easily and quickly through a tab in Settings. However, carrier-locking still applies and networks will be able to restrict how dual-SIM support works. iPhone XS Max – Software Like all of Apple’s other iPhones, the iPhone XS Max runs iOS 12. All versions of iOS 12 across devices are virtually identical, and Apple hasn’t really added anything here to make the most of the larger display offered by the device. Ultimately, this feels like a missed opportunity.
I’d love to be able to use two apps side-by-side (a feature offered natively on Android); having Safari open in one window and an email app or YouTube in the other. Having such generous screen real-estate available without such an option is bizarre. In addition, you can’t pop-out a video player and have that always visible – again, this would have been a handy feature. The only real differences in the way apps behave are those you’d find on previous ‘Plus’ phones.
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