Iphone 11 Vs Iphone Xs Max

Apple announced theiPhone 11, eleven Pro and 11 Pro Max in 2019 but they're still worth because in 2021. The iPhone 11 phones have wonderful cameras, a blazing fast processor and excellent build quality. If you lot don't need 5G, you can probably pass on the neweriPhone 12 serial. Yous tin can relieve some serious money, besides. Apple sells the iPhone eleven for $599 which is $130 less than theiPhone 12. Apple doesn't sell the iPhone 11 Pro or 11 Pro Max but many carriers and retailers still do. And before theimpending release of the heavily rumored iPhone 13, allow'southward revisit the master differences amongst the iPhone eleven lineup.

It tin can be difficult to cull between theiPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max. All iii phones take the same processor, aforementioned main, ultrawide and selfie cameras, and arecompatible with iOS fifteen. In fact, the iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max are identical in near every style aside from price, size, weight, battery life and screen resolution. The iPhone eleven represents 1 of theall-time values for a flagship telephone you can buy today, and has many of the same 11 Pro features. On the other hand, the iPhone eleven Pro has a few key additions that make it stand out. And you may non take to pay full toll:Walmart sells information technology for $575, which is $24 less than what Apple tree charges.

For over a year, I used the iPhone xi as my daily driver and the 11 Pro as a work phone. I took numerous photos and videos with the ultrawide-bending camera and pushed the A13 processor to its max with games and photograph edits.

For nigh people, including myself, the iPhone 11 is more enough, and taking that one step further, I'd actually pay more for the 11 to upgrade the storage from 64GB to 128GB. Just here is the wrinkle: size. The iPhone eleven Pro is a chip smaller and lighter than the xi, which I personally dear, and it could be the reason to go Pro. (FYI, if y'all desire something bigger though, with the longest battery life of the 3, theiPhone eleven Pro Max is there waiting to fill your pocket and empty your bank account even more.)

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At the heart of the iPhone 11 Pro is an iPhone 11. Merely information technology gets the VIP treatment with upgrades such every bit a high-resolution OLED display, a matte-glass finish and a stainless steel side band. It has a tertiary rear photographic camera that, combined with Apple'due south Deep Fusion image processing, takes improve zoomed-in photos. Merely probably the most-welcomed upgrade on the 11 Pro is how much longer battery life is over the previous-generation iPhone XS. The eleven Pro lasts virtually equally long on a unmarried charge as the 11.

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The smaller iPhone was better

Perhaps the most obvious and important reason to buy the iPhone 11 Pro over the iPhone xi is size. They are very differently sized phones and they will fit in your easily differently. With a 5.viii-inch screen and a weight of 6.63 ounces (188 grams), the iPhone 11 Pro is the smallest of the three iPhone xi devices. (Though, if a small phone is what you're after,the new iPhone SE might exist a better selection, at 4.7 inches and 5.22 ounces.) The solid-feeling phone is the easiest to use one-handed. Weighing half dozen.84 ounces the iPhone 11 is heavier than the 11 Pro but doesn't feel as dense. The iPhone 11 is 0.2 millimeters thicker than the xi Pro, which makes information technology feel a tad chunky.

Everyone's easily and needs are different. I have large easily, but prefer the svelte feeling of the 11 Pro. But if you are willing to compromise a heavier weight for a larger screen, get the 11.

And if y'all want the absolute biggest screen yous can have, go for the iPhone 11 Pro Max that has a 6.5-inch OLED screen but weighs 7.97 ounces (226 grams).

Winner: For its small size, the 11 Pro is the mode to go for me.

The telephoto camera is nice to have

The iPhone 11 Pro (and eleven Pro Max) have a 3rd camera with a telephoto lens that the iPhone 11 doesn't. At times information technology was overnice switching to the telephoto camera. And compared to the iPhone XS, the updated telephoto photographic camera combined with Deep Fusion processing meant I took photos with better image quality.

There were times I framed a shot better with the 11 Pro'south telephoto camera than I could with the main camera. For example, when I took a pinnacle-down shot of a plate of food with the main camera, I could encounter the phone'southward shadow on the plate. But when I switched to the telephoto photographic camera and moved the telephone higher away from the table at that place was no shadow.

At that place are a couple caveats well-nigh the iPhone 11 Pro's telephoto camera though. When you take Dark Mode photos at 2x, the eleven Pro doesn't use the telephoto camera. Instead, it takes a ingather of the main wide-angle camera. Too, the telephoto camera excels in brilliant weather condition, but when taking photos in medium-to-depression light, I noticed better image quality if I took the same photo with the main camera and cropped in.

All in all, the telephoto lens is useful on the eleven Pro, only I didn't miss having it when I used the 11. If I needed to zoom in on a photo, a 2x crop of a photo I took with the main camera worked fine. I do recommend looking at the photos yous have on your current phone and see how many were taken zoomed in and how many photos would wait better had yous been able to zoom in a chip. If you have a lot of pictures where you wished you had a defended telephoto photographic camera, then you should consider an iPhone 11 Pro.

For more on the iPhone eleven and 11 Pro cameras, check out our comparisons below:

iPhone camera comparison: iPhone eleven with Deep Fusion vs. iPhone XR
Apple tree iPhone xi Pro vs. iPhone XS: Photographic camera and Dark Style comparing
iPhone 11 Pro Max: Taking the camera skateboarding
iPhone 11 goes Pro with photography

Winner: The 11 Pro'due south telephoto camera is a nice-to-take if you value iPhone photography, merely it's certainly not necessary

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The iPhone 11 Pro has a gorgeous OLED display

The iPhone xi Pro has a 5.8-inch OLED screen, while the xi has a vi.i-inch LCD brandish. When I look at the phones side-past-side, the screen on the 11 Pro looked better, brighter and showed off more details. It is a joy to watch videos and edit photos on.

The OLED screen on the xi Pro supports HDR and has a much higher dissimilarity ratio (the ratio of the brightest and darkest colors on a display). The 11 Pro has a contrast ratio of 2,000,000:one compared to the 11'southward 1,400:1. On paper that means the iPhone 11 Pro is capable of darker blackness levels and more color saturation. That said, side-by-side, the differences between the 2 screens are sometimes hard to notice. In and of itself, the colors on the iPhone 11's LCD are accurate and videos look practiced.

The iPhone eleven Pro Max has a 6.v-inch OLED that has the same pixel density equally the iPhone 11 Pro.

Winner: The screen on the iPhone 11 is good, but the i on the xi Pro is even better.

Cracked screens and waterproofing

We put both the iPhone xi and xi Pro through a test where we dropped them from unlike heights. After dropping them from 3-feet, 6-feet and 8-feet off the ground both phones survived without a single crevice to their screens or glass backs. The only blemish was a pocket-size scuff to the iPhone 11'south aluminum band and a few damaged pixels on the bottom of the 11 Pro's screen.

Equally far every bit water resistance, both of these phones are rated IP68. Apple claims the iPhone eleven can withstand being submerged at a depth of 6.5 feet (2 meters) up to 30 minutes and the xi Pro can survive at a maximum depth of 13 feet (four meters) up to thirty minutes. All the same, in our h2o tests with an underwater drone, the eleven and 11 Pro both survived being submerged for 30 minutes at 39 feet (11.9 meters).

Winner: Tie; both the iPhone 11 and eleven Pro are some of the most durable phones you can buy today,

Color, stop and extras

After six months of use without a case, the backs of both the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro still didn't take a unmarried scratch or scuff. The textured matte glass dorsum on the iPhone 11 Pro feels soft, smooth and durable. The phone is like shooting fish in a barrel to grip and never feels like it's going to slip out of my hand (though again, its smaller size helps with this). I'g happy to say that fingerprint smudges don't accumulate hands.

The iPhone 11, meanwhile, has a sleeky glass back, which does experience slippery in my hand and the telephone is prone to smudges, too.

As far every bit colors, the iPhone xi gets things more right than the 11 Pro. Y'all tin can buy an iPhone 11 in half-dozen vivid and fun colors. The xi Pro is less flashy and comes in 4 rather serious finishes (space gray, silvery, gilt or midnight dark-green). In a perfect world, I could have the matte glass end of the 11 Pro and the color options of the 11.

The iPhones have wireless charging and support fast charging, only merely the iPhone 11 Pro (and 11 Pro Max) comes with the xviii-watt charger that's required for fast charging. It's aggravating that the eleven doesn't come up with this charger and that you'll have to buy it separately if you desire it. To make matters worse, Apple charges $29 (£29, AU$49) for the xviii-watt fast charger and $nineteen (£nineteen, AU$29) for the required cablevision, when cheaper uniform alternatives are available.
Winner: On colors alone, the iPhone xi takes this ane.

Detailed comparison of iPhone 11, iPhone eleven Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

	iPhone xi	iPhone 11 Pro	iPhone 11 Pro Max
Display size, resolution	6.one-inch LCD Liquid Retina; i,792x828 pixels	5.eight-inch OLED Super Retina XDR; 2,436x1,125 pixels	half dozen.v-inch OLED Super Retina XDR; 2,688x1,242 pixels
Pixel density	326 ppi	458 ppi	458 ppi
Dimensions (Inches)	5.94x2.98x0.33 in	5.67x2.81x0.32 in	half-dozen.22x3.06x0.32 in
Dimensions (Millimeters)	150.9x75.7x8.3 mm	144x71.4x8.ane mm	158x77.8x8.1 mm
Weight (Ounces, Grams)	6.84 oz; 194g	half-dozen.63 oz; 188g	7.97 oz; 226g
Mobile software	iOS xiii	iOS 13	iOS 13
Camera	12-megapixel (wide), 12-megapixel (ultra-broad)	12-megapixel (wide), 12-megapixel (ultra-wide), 12-megapixel (telephoto)	12-megapixel (wide), 12-megapixel (ultra-broad), 12-megapixel (telephoto)
Front end-facing camera	12-megapixel with Face ID	12-megapixel with Face ID	12-megapixel with Face ID
Video capture	4K	4K	4K
Processor	Apple tree A13 Bionic	Apple A13 Bionic	Apple A13 Bionic
Storage	64GB, 128GB, 256GB	64GB, 256GB, 512GB	64GB, 256GB, 512GB
RAM	Not disclosed	Not disclosed	Non disclosed
Expandable storage	None	None	None
Bombardment	Non disclosed, just Apple tree claims it will concluding 1 hour longer than iPhone XR	Not disclosed, merely Apple claims it volition concluding 4 hours longer than iPhone XS	Non disclosed, but Apple claims it will last 5 hours longer than iPhone XS Max
Fingerprint sensor	None (Face ID)	None (Face ID)	None (Face ID)
Connector	Lightning	Lightning	Lightning
Headphone jack	No	No	No
Special features	H2o resistant (IP68); dual-SIM capabilities (nano-SIM and e-SIM); wireless charging	Water resistant (IP68); dual-SIM capabilities (nano-SIM and e-SIM); wireless charging	Water resistant (IP68); dual-SIM capabilities (nano-SIM and e-SIM); wireless charging
Toll off-contract (USD)	$699 (64GB), $749 (128GB), $849 (256GB)	$999 (64GB), $1,149 (256GB), $ane,349 (512GB)	$ane,099 (64GB), $1,249 (256GB), $i,449 (512GB)