iPhone 14 Pro Max vs iPhone 14 Plus, Full review comparison

 iPhone 14 plus and the iPhone 14 pro Max are the larger phones offered by Apple this year in 2022  and so I wanted to help you decide which one would   be best for you and so we'll start with the price  the iPhone 14 plus is less 

expensive than the 14 pro Max and starts at 899 dollars has a 999 dollar  option and 1199 option that will get you 128 256 or 512 gigabytes of storage you cannot upgrade the  storage on either of these if you want the 14 plus unlocked you'll have to pay an additional thirty  dollars that means you can use it on any 

carrier and not just one the iPhone 14 pro Max starts at  1099 has a thousand one hundred and ninety nine dollar Option 1 399 or 1599 that'll get you 128  256 512 or even one terabyte of storage if you want that so you do have that additional storage  option but of course in just about every option we're two hundred dollars more from the plus to  the pro Max now there's 

different colors between both phones the 14 plus comes in blue that I have  here it also comes in a new purple color and then  

we have midnight Starlight and product red just  like we did last year with the 13. with the iPhone  

14 pro Max this color space black is one of the  new colors we also have a new deep purple color then gold and silver so those are the latest  colors for these devices now the build is quite  

different between both of them with the 14 plus 

we  have aluminum or aluminum around the outside edge and then we have glass front and back so we have  ceramic shield on the front just like everything else everything that Apple sells these days  has that and apple calls it an aerospace grade aluminum we no longer have a SIM card tray on  either device so there's no SIM card tray at least in the United States but you do have dual e-sim  options outside the US you'll 

have a SIM card tray on the 14 plus this is made of what Apple calls  surgical grade stainless steel so again ceramic shield on the front and then glass on the back now  the 14 plus being made of aluminum is lighter at 7.16 ounces or 203 grams or the 14 pro Max is 8.47  ounces or 200 and 40 grams so there's definitely a difference there however the 14 pro Max is a  

little bit narrower if we compare them side by   side it's slightly narrower it's about the same  height very similar there maybe a little bit less   but in general the 14 pro Max actually feels a  little bit better because it's narrower and maybe  

a little bit more grippy if you're not using it  with a case but it will show fingerprints the back   of the 14 plus will show a lot of fingerprints  as well just by the way it's constructed so the   matte finish is really nice on the back of the 14  

pro Max which doesn't show that of course one of the major differences between both of these other  than their overall design is their displays the 14 plus uses the display from last year but is  only 60 hertz but does still have the notch so  

we have the notch still and a 60 hertz panel  we don't have Pro Motion in this like the pro  

max phones do it is a very nice display at 2778  by 1284 pixels with 400 and 58 pixels per inch  

it goes up to 800 nits brightness and regular use  and then can go up to 1200 nits playing 

HDR video compared to the 14 pro Max Apple's really stepped  it up this year with the latest Pro Max phone at 6.7 inches again we have the dynamic Island no  longer have a notch this is interactive we'll show you that in a moment we also have 120 hertz  Pro motion which makes it super smooth and it has an always-on display so it's always on if you  want it to be on put it on your nightstand you can still see it and there's different modes for  that and settings as well if you don't want to use that but it has a 2796 by 1290 pixel resolution  at 460 pixels per inch but 

the big increase is its overall brightness it has a thousand nits  Max brightness and regular use 1600 nits in Peak brightness when using HDR content or viewing that  content and 2 000 nits Peak brightness Outdoors it's over double the brightness in regular use  just when you're using it regularly around the house watching videos everything else it's double  the brightness so it's really great outside both of them them have great viewing angles no  complaints there and in general both look great however there's 

something about the 14 pro  Max that just looks a little bit sharper maybe due to the higher pixel density and the nicer display  but its overall brightness is incredible compared to the previous phones that Apple has offered  now something I cover in just about every video  

of mine is pwm or pulse width modulation the way  the display controls brightness it's controlling brightness by flickering the display faster and  slower last year with the 13 Pro Max Apple pretty much introduced DC dimming they haven't said that  officially but the display is almost unnoticeable as far as it flickering you 

can't notice this  with your eyes but at 240 frames per second you can see that it's flickering on the 14 plus  and not the 14 pro Max it's very hard to pick up on the newer displays so that's something you may  want to consider although it really doesn't bother  

my eyes on either as Apple has done a great job  at making the rate high enough where it doesn't  

bother my eyes but it does seem to bother about  1 in 10 people so I want wanted to 

mention it as far as HDR video like I said it looks great let me  show you that now I have one of my videos playing in HDR and you can see how low the brightness is  this is my iPhone 14 unboxing and the brightness is set incredibly low both displays look great  and they both do a great job as long as the exposure is under a thousand nits or under 1200 nits if it goes over that well then the 14 pro max