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Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max

The iPhone 11 Pro Max is Apple’s biggest and most powerful phone yet, and larger sibling to the iPhone 11 Pro. Like the Pro, it features an impressive new camera, enhanced battery life and an upgraded screen. 

Reviewers liked

• Excellent triple camera
• Fantastic battery life
• Beautiful, bright display

Reviewers disliked

• Most expensive iPhone available
• Design lacks innovation
• Large size can make it cumbersome

The Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max: In more detail

The iPhone 11 Pro Max is the largest of Apple’s thirteenth generation. It is essentially the same as the iPhone 11 Pro, but with a bigger screen and better battery life. Its headline feature is its new triple camera, which adds an ultra-wide lens to the standard wide and telephoto lenses. Reviewers were very impressed with the camera, generally agreeing it’s one of the best smartphone cameras out there. It also has an upgraded processor, a brighter screen and a new version of iOS. At around £100 more than the Pro, it’s the most expensive iPhone available - but this is the iPhone to go for if you value extra screen space and longer battery life. 

Camera

The camera is the iPhone 11 Pro Max’s standout feature. For the first time on an iPhone, it has three lenses: the usual main lens and telephoto lens are joined by an ultra-wide lens, enabling you to fit more of a scene into your photo. 

Apple has improved its night mode this time around, with reviewers generally impressed by the results. TechRadar said the photos it took were ‘sometimes staggering’ and that the night mode was the ‘single biggest reason to buy a new iPhone’. It also has an improved portrait mode and the latest Smart HDR, which ensures different elements in a photo are exposed correctly and evenly, and improves dynamic range.

Digital Trends thought it was ‘among the best camera phones available’, taking photos with ‘largely natural’ colours and ‘impeccably strong’ details. The Guardian called it ‘a massive step up on previous iPhone cameras’, putting Apple ‘firmly up with the best’ in the smartphone camera stakes. Trusted Reviews found the camera consistently delivered ‘excellent images’ for everyday shots, with great detail and vibrant, well-saturated colours. 

Design

The iPhone 11 Pro Max is largely similar in design to its predecessor, the XS Max. It has the same stainless steel and glass body, curving sides and notch cutout on the screen. 

Where it differs is on the rear, with a new frosted matte finish that makes it less prone to fingerprint smudges. It also has a large, square camera bump to house the new triple-lens setup. The phone is available in a new colour, midnight green, which is a greyish, military green, alongside grey, gold and silver. 

The phone is bigger than its sibling, the iPhone 11 Pro. At 77.8mm wide, it divided opinion among reviewers: The Guardian found it ‘really difficult to use with one hand’, while TechRadar thought it was ‘not overly’ large and would be ‘more than manageable day to day’ if you had used large phones previously. 

Display

Along with the camera, the iPhone 11 Pro Max’s large screen is one of its main selling points. It has a 6.5-inch display (compared to the Pro’s 5.8 inches) and has seen an upgrade in terms of brightness. This is boosted even more when watching HDR video content: Digital Trends found it delivered ‘impressive brightness’ and had ‘zero trouble watching shows with a lot of dark scenes...in bright sunlight’.

The screen is another way the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max differ from their cheaper counterpart, the iPhone 11. The Pro models have an OLED display rather than LCD, meaning they’re significantly sharper, more vibrant and more capable of high contrast. 

TechRadar was impressed by the ability to watch Dolby Vision content, which offered a ‘far more cinematic’ experience. Trusted Reviews thought the screen was ‘fantastic, sharp and colourful’ and ‘easily one of the nicest to look at out of any 2019 phone’. The Guardian called it ‘a gorgeous display. Sharp, bright, colour-rich and full of contrast’. 

Performance

The iPhone 11 Pro Max is powered by the same A13 Bionic chip as the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro. This is Apple’s most powerful processor ever, making this a very fast phone. It’s paired with 4GB of RAM and either 64GB, 256GB or 512GB of storage. 

TechRadar found in their testing that the it was the fastest phone around (along with its smaller sibling, the iPhone 11 Pro) and found it could handle any number of apps easily. The Guardian found that ‘everything happens promptly, including intensive tasks such as video editing and gaming’ and thought it would remain ‘a top performer for years to come’. In Digital Trends’ tests its scores were among the highest they’d ever seen on a smartphone, only being beaten by the iPhone 11 Pro.

Battery life

Apple claims the iPhone 11 Pro Max’s battery should last five hours longer than the iPhone XS Max’s. 

TechRadar found that it lived up to the claim, with the phone lasting around 23 hours with extremely heavy use. Digital Trends called its battery life ‘incredible’, finding it lasted a full day of ‘comfortable, worry-free use’ and a day and a half, if not two, of light use. The Guardian found it lasted almost a full 48 hours between charges. 

It has fast charging capability, and for the first time Apple has included a fast charger in the box. This should get your battery to 50% in around half an hour.

What the critics say (scores are out of 100)

100	What Hi-Fi? It's not the performance-per-pound champion of the current range, but the 11 Pro Max is still an awesome smartphone. Read full review
100	Tom's Guide | Mark Spoonauer When you look at the phone landscape, there are plenty of great flagships, but right now the iPhone 11 Pro Max is at the top of the mountain. Read full review
100	Stuff | Craig Grannell The best iPhone Apple's ever made – but it again comes at a price Read full review
100	Know Your Mobile | Damien McFerran This year's iPhones might not be all that exciting if you're not interested in photography, but there's no denying the fact that they're the best devices Apple has produced so far, and if you like big-screen blowers then the iPhone 11 Pro Max is the one to go for. Read full review
100	Expert Reviews | Jonathan Bray The iPhone 11 Pro Max is Apple's biggest and best phone; it may be expensive but it is the best smartphone money can buy. Read full review
95	Mashable | Raymond Wong Apple's iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max are serious threats to mirrorless and DSLR cameras. Read full review
94	OtherGadgetGuy | Valens Quinn The iPhone 11 Pro is a seriously impressive and capable smartphone. While a lot of the features introduced have been present on Samsung, LG, Oppo and Huawei's flagship devices, Apple has delivered them with its typical flair and quality. Read full review
94	Pickr | Leigh Stark The iPhone 11 Pro Max is a spectacular achievement for Apple, and one of the best phones you can find today...If big and premium is what you crave, you'll want to seriously check out the iPhone 11 Pro Max. Highly recommended. Read full review
94	phoneArena | Victor Hristov If you can live with a beautiful but slightly less vivid and slightly less sharp screen, and you don't lust after luxury or a telephoto camera for portraits, the iPhone 11 is a much more sensible and affordable choice. Read full review
90	Firstpost | Nimish Sawant The iPhone 11 Pro Max is a great upgrade option for those coming from the iPhone X or earlier generations. Read full review
90	Wired UK | Jeremy White If you have your sensible head on, considering you get nearly all the kit for as much as half the price, you should clearly go for the standard 11. If you simply must have a Pro, because, well, it's a Pro, then go for the normal Pro and avoid the Max, you'll save both your pocket and wallet some extra pounds. Read full review
90	Digital Trends | Julian Chokkattu For big-screen lovers, the iPhone 11 Pro Max is the way to go. It offers excellent battery life, performance, and a class-leading camera system. Read full review
90	AnandTech | Andrei Frumusanu Users coming from an iPhone 8 (Plus) or earlier models can now upgrade to the new Pro models without having to worry about taking a hit to battery life. Meanwhile performance is self-explanatory, and the camera upgrades are very solid, albeit the wide-angle has some definite weaknesses. Read full review
90	The Indian Express | Nandagopal Rajan Overall, the iPhone 11 Pro Max is the best offering Apple has at the moment when it comes to the sheer experience of using a phone - power, a camera combo that covers all your imaging needs and a battery that lasts all day. Read full review
90	NDTV Gadgets | Kunal Dua The iPhone 11 Pro Max could also be too much of a handful for many people thanks to its size and weight, which would make the iPhone 11 Pro a better bet for many looking for the best the Apple world has to offer. Then there's the small matter of the price. Read full review
90	The Verge | Nilay Patel I'm very picky about displays and cameras, so I'm going to get a Pro. In fact, the cameras on the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro are so improved that I think they're worth the year-over-year upgrade from last year's models for the first time in a long time. Add in the improved battery life, and the iPhone 11 Pro stands out as a major step forward from the XS, and one of the best flagship phones of the year. Read full review
90	Engadget | Chris Velazco The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max offer the best that Apple is capable of right now, but we're still left with an important question: Do you actually need everything on offer here? Certain changes, like improved battery life and the more flexible triple cameras, are updates everyone can enjoy. For almost everything else, though, the differences in actual day-to-day use can be so subtle that you'd be hard-pressed to really notice them. Read full review
85	India Today | Javed Anwer The iPhone 11 Pro Max is the latest and greatest from Apple, and just like other iPhones of the last two years, it is a formidable phone. Read full review
80	TechPP (Technology Personalized) | Yash Wate ... it boils down to the overall experience provided by the device. Which, in this case, definitely manages to bring the best of both the hardware and the software to offer a well-rounded experience. Read full review
80	Android Authority | Andrew Grush The iPhone 11 Pro takes what made the XS great and improves battery life and the camera. The iPhone has arguably taken back the crown for best mobile camera, though the pending Pixel 4 has us curious to see if Apple can keep the title for long. Read full review
80	AndroidPit | Julia Froolyks I don't recommend the iPhone 11 Pro Max and I believe that the small version, the iPhone 11, does too. If you want the full Apple experience and you have big hands, hit it. In terms of cameras, you should have a look at Samsung or Huawei, if it may be an Android smartphone. They are way ahead of Apple in this respect. Read full review
80	Mobile Syrup | Ted Kritsonis The camera array in the iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max was a bigger leap forward for Apple, though not a leapfrog over the competition. Low-light photos are far better this time around, catching the company up to the best we saw in 2018, not what we've seen in 2019. Read full review
80	Trusted Reviews | Max Parker The 11 Pro Max is a great phone thanks to tremendous battery life, a camera array that's as versatile as anything else on the market and a big screen that makes it a joy to play games on. Of course, all that comes at a price – and this is a seriously expensive phone. Read full review
80	The Guardian | Samuel Gibbs There's an excellent super-sized smartphone within Apple's grasp, but unfortunately the iPhone 11 Pro Max isn't it. Read full review
80	Mashable India | Shomik Sen Bhattacharjee The iPhone 11 Pro does indeed becomes a hard-sell when you consider just how good the iPhone 11 is, but then again, if value is what you're looking at you probably wouldn't be reading this. Read full review
80	Gadgets Now | Aabhas Sharma If you shell out the required amount, you'll get the best Apple has to offer. Some people might consider this as a 'boring' upgrade. However, as one of India's best sportswriter Rohit Brijnath once said, "brilliance can never be boring." Those words aptly fit how we would describe the iPhone 11 Pro Max. Read full review
80	TechRadar | Gareth Beavis The iPhone 11 Pro Max is the best that Apple can cram into a smartphone - the high-end screen, powerful speakers, upgraded processor all support the huge upgrades to the camera. However, this phone is really for the Apple fan or someone that really needs that extra lens or a touch more battery life - the iPhone 11 feels like it offers better value. Read full review
80	Pocket-lint | Stuart Miles The Max pushes everything up a notch, with the great display and new camera being the highlights, while the lack of 5G is a future consideration. But this is an expensive device and it's hard to ignore that you can get much the same from the iPhone 11. A great phone, but with a tempting cheaper alternative. Read full review
80	NotebookCheck | Florian Schmitt In short, the Pro Max is not a worthwhile upgrade from the XS Max, with most of the improvements that the latter has being iOS 13-based, rather than because of any substantial hardware changes. Read full review
60	Gadget Speak | Paul Smart The cameras do take very good images but I have also reviewed several Android phones that seem to have just as good camera images at a cheaper price. Read full review

Compare Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max specs side-by-side with other phones COMPARE SPECS

Dimensions & Form	Form factor: Touchscreen bar Dimensions 158 x 77.8 x 8.1 mm (6.22 x 3.06 x 0.32 in) Weight: 226 g (7.97 oz)
Screen	Size: 6.5 inches diagonal Resolution: 2688 x 1242 pixels Screen Density: 456 ppi Screen-to-Body Ratio: 84.4 % Display Type: Super Retina XDR OLED
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Performance	Chipset: Apple A13 Bionic (7 nm+) CPU: Hexa-core (2x2.65 GHz Lightning + 4x1.8 GHz Thunder) GPU: Apple GPU (4-core graphics) RAM: 4GB
Camera	Main Camera: 12 megapixels (wide-angle) + 12 megapixels (telephoto) + 12 megapixels (ultra-wide) with LED flash Secondary Camera: 12 megapixels
Storage	Built-in Storage: 64GB, 256GB, 512GB Expandable Storage: Not Available
Battery & Charging	Capacity: 3500 mAh Removable Battery: No Wireless Charging: Yes Quick Charge: Quick Charge
SIM standard	Nano SIM Compare SIM Only deals
Water & Dust Resistance	IP68 Rating: Protection from contact with harmful dust, and protection from immersion in water up to a depth of 30m for up to 30 minutes
Fingerprint Reader	None
References & More info	Official website GSMArena specs page

Photos taken with the Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max

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