Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the iphone 12 pro has been out for a little over
six months and seems to be one of apple's best selling phones if not the best selling
they don't really report the sales figures but many people say the iphone 12 and 12 pro
are having incredible sales and i think that's due to its overall size it's newer design and so
i want to talk about how well it's held up over those past six months what battery life is like
and just go over things like reception and more and the first thing is it's overall durability
now this iphone 12 pro has held up really well it's got a stainless steel frame as you may know
and if you don't have it in a case it will pretty much scratch fairly easily although i would say
it scratches less easily than maybe last year's iphone 11 pro so it's held up well but this one
has been kept in a case and this is an iphone leather case from apple and you'll see there's
a couple indents there it's meant to sort of wear and patina but in general it's held up well but i
wanted to show you an iphone that's been used a hundred percent of the time since i use this
phone and a 12 pro max i go back and forth i want to show you a phone that's been used a hundred
percent of the time since it released this is my wife's iphone 12 pro and she generally changes the
case based on season and she takes really good care of this in fact she's had this phone just
since the release the release day of the iphone 12 pro and she switched from an iphone 10. she's not
someone that wants a new phone all the time and so with this new design she liked it and it was three
years later so she thought she'd switch and it's been in a case ever since and generally she'll
switch based on season and so this is one of the newer spring cases and it's protected the iphone
well you'll see that this is the silver variant of the iphone and if we look around the outside
edge you might see there's a little bit of marking here where maybe some dust got in but in general
it's held up well now if you don't have the silver iphone in a case this will scratch pretty
easily as it's polished stainless steel and you could buff some of this out but it's held up well
even in the areas where it may not very well so right around the lightning port sometimes you'll
get a bunch of scratches based on it being open a little bit but thanks to the newer cases having
a little bit better protection on the bottom you can see that it's held up well thanks to that so
it's actually protected the speaker ports and everything much better than the open cases we
had before now as far as the display goes the display is fine because it has a screen
protector on it now i have a screen protector on both of these iphones and if you've followed
my videos for any amount of time you'll know that i don't generally use screen protectors that much
but on certain phones i will and this one actually has a screen protector you can see it's off
centered a little bit so i may have to fix that later but it doesn't have a single scratch on it
thanks to that even around the face id sensors where it's exposed there's no issues there
and based on experience with the iphone 12 pro max without a screen protector these displays
hold up much better than their previous year's counterparts so the iphone 11 pro for example
scratched very easily compared to this one and so that's why i put screen protectors on all of them
since i thought they'd scratch easier but the 12 pro max has not really scratched that much
and these hold up well so if you're not using a screen protector with it they'll hold up better
than before but still i normally advise most people to use one if they're very concerned
about that you can see this is my wife's aesthetic she sort of has it matching the case so that's how
she uses it most of the time so i left it how she leaves it and we'll talk more about battery life
in a little bit but the next thing i want to talk about is its display the iphone 12 pro display is
one of the best displays out there it's extremely color accurate in fact to the point where it might
be a little bit too warm for some people and if that's the case i generally recommend people
turn off true tone where it gives it a little bit more blue color or vibrant color instead of
more of a yellow tone so for some people this is a problem but they tend to be very accurate
they have great viewing angles and they go super bright so if you're in sunlight a lot
they'll go up to 800 nits with normal use at their fullest bright or highest brightness compared to
say an iphone 12 that goes up to about 625 nits or so so it will go a little bit brighter and
then up to 1200 nits at the highest range so when you're watching hdr for example now these
displays are controlled by pwm which means they flicker the display faster or slower
with an oled display that's generally how they control brightness and that can cause problems
for some people in making them feel nauseated giving headaches or increased eye strain now this
doesn't happen to everyone it's about 1 in 10 and in previous iphones i experienced that quite a bit
and with the iphone 11 they seem to fix that and it's much better with the iphone 12 series they're
such a high pwm rate that most people that had issues with them before won't have issues with
them as you can see in slo-mo at 240 frames per second the screen is actually flashing
on and off to control that brightness it's a flicker screen it's not flicker free like you
may see in other places with monitors for example so it may bother your eyes it may not but if
you're prone to that bothering you these seem to be much better than the previous generation
in my experience so as someone who is bothered by this these seem to be much better also when we're
talking about these displays there's a concern of green tint now that has been fixed mostly with the
recent updates of ios 14.5 for example some people still have green tin around the outside edges
or other issues with the display maybe on a black background where the display brightness is low
sometimes people see it on higher brightnesses but neither of these displays have that so some people
have it apple fixed it with the 11 pro they had the same problem last year the 11 pro and 11 pro
max they fixed last august with that problem so they still could be working on this some people
experience it i haven't seen it on either of these iphone 12 pros so it may not be a problem
for everyone now also they do display 4k hdr like i said so if i go into to youtube and go to one of
my videos the 12 pro max one month later video and we go to the display options here you'll see under
advanced we have 2160p hdr so 4k hdr and these displays look incredible when watching hdr they
go super bright in fact this might be too bright to see on the display because the brightness is
turned up a little bit but if i turn it down it may look closer to what it looks like if you don't
have an hdr display but if you do it's closer to what your eye can see so the the background is
really nice and bright the blacks are very deep in black and it just looks great overall also along
with that this has great speakers and they've held up pretty well let me go ahead and move
the microphone and then i'll hit play so you can hear work fine as well and so like i said it's 4k
hdr and hopefully you're seeing the 4k resolution it does take a little bit of time for youtube
to process that but in general the camera looks amazing and it's recording from an iphone 12 pro
now this particular phone now at the highest of volumes the speakers are nice and loud but they
do get a little bit muffled at the very top of the volume range so you might want to bring that down
a little bit but they sound great in fact they impress me from time to time with the amount of
bass they have if you were listening to music for example i played a voice clip so you could
hear the difference between the speakers here and me actually speaking into the same microphone so
hopefully that gives you an idea if you haven't heard them in person now overall reception is
quite good as well so on my wife's iphone 12 pro max you'll see we have three bars of 5g and
i'm inside a building and generally i'll get two to three bars in this building speeds have been
decent depending where you live so if we go over to speed test we'll open that up and we'll just
hit go and we'll see what we get like i said we're inside a building so that can decrease the speeds
but i'm getting about well 120 to 130 megabits per second with download speeds that's pretty good
considering i don't have millimeter wave where i live and on 4g it's a little bit slower upload i'm
getting about seven to eight megabits per second so just depending where you are this can be great
or not as great 5g is fast for some people where i live it tends to be very fast but the fastest
millimeter wave is not available where i live on the carrier i use it's sparse enough that i
would say if you're looking specifically for those super high speed millimeter wave speeds if that's
a concern for you i would make sure that you have millimeter wave in the area you live because
where i live in the charlotte area there's not a whole lot of that for t-mobile for example but for
verizon and att there could be if that's something that's important to you i wouldn't run out and buy
this for that specific thing but reception overall has been great in fact my wife has never dropped a
call on this she's never complained about that and she had with the iphone 10. so this one seems to
be much better as far as reception overall and i can say the same about any of the iphone 12
series i've used now that apple's using qualcomm modems it seems to be much better so along with
the 5g the antenna in general and the radio inside just seems to be much better so better reception
and less lost calls now ios 14.5.1 is the latest version it's on my wife's iphone 12 pro
and she generally uses things like music in the camera and basic use you can see she has a
fairly sparse layout on her phone and she likes to keep it pretty minimal and then matching whatever
aesthetic she has so whether that be a case or whatever else so it works pretty well for her
and before i made this video i asked her is there anything that stood out that you were having an
issue with and a couple versions ago she had some issues but now she said she hasn't had
any problems now that's not going to be the same for everyone it depends if you're a power user or
not she is not a power user she uses the iphone and the ipad to play games and things like that
for someone like me that uses social media a lot i really don't have too many issues but i follow
up on those with different videos and quite a few of you have seen the issues i've had or that you
have had so in general these tend to be pretty solid experiences and the iphone 12 pro will get
updates for at least five more years usually based on what apple has done so maybe ios 19 or longer
than that if we're still on ios 19 or they call it something else now overall battery life depends on
how you use your phone of course but let's take a look at it and like i said my wife's phone's
been in use every single day since the release of iphone 12 pro so battery life we'll take a look at
battery health in a moment but over the last 10 days this is the first time i'm looking at this
you can see well let's go back to yesterday two hours and 34 minutes of screen on time
three minutes of screen off time and about forty percent usage so that would give her
five to six hours of screen on time now this can vary from person to person the day before she had
three hours and 31 minutes of screen on time and used 50 percent of her battery life if you doubled
that and she used another 50 of her battery she would get about seven hours of screen on time so
it really depends on how you're using it and what you're doing day to day so depending on the day
it's going to vary greatly but in general five to six hours seems to be about right when i ask
people with iphone 12 pro what their battery life is like now as far as battery health my wife has a
hundred percent and this has been charged every single night wirelessly with a case on that's
how she charges it if it needs to be charged throughout the day she'll put it on a charger
whether that be lightning or wireless now she uses various chargers whether that be an ipad charger a
12 watt ipad charger or every single night before going to bed she'll put it on her nightstand where
there's a samsung 7.5 watt wireless charger the charger can actually go faster but based on the
different standards and things that's charging at 7.5 and then also in the car from time to time
wirelessly charging this most of the time and it's held up well she wirelessly charges it with a case
on as well so heat is not an issue for her our house is generally around 72 degrees fahrenheit so
it's held up really well it's charged every single night so that's actually holding up quite well
and let me show you the battery cycles as well and as you can see here are the battery cycles
she's had 113 battery cycles and what that means is draining the battery one hundred percent and
then recharging it a hundred percent so a full cycle could mean you drain it one day to fifty
percent charge it back up to 100 that would be half of a cycle then you do the same thing the
next day that would be one full cycle so that's how many cycles she has on her battery so it's
held up well as far as that goes now when it comes to the cameras these cameras are definitely my
favorite for recording video if you want to record hdr video for example they're phenomenal for that
the forward-facing camera again 4k 60 frames per second you can do hdr with it it's an incredible
device for that so i wanted to show you some footage that you could use this for vlogging and
the forward-facing camera is good enough that you could use it every single day as your main camera
for youtube this is the forward-facing camera in 4k 60 and i'm not using an external microphone so
it's blocking out background noise pretty well and it does a great job of the shadows and highlights
and things like that and hdr it's even better but if you want better stabilization you can switch to
the rear camera and with the rear facing camera it's much more stable you don't get the shake
that you do with the forward-facing camera but you don't get the reach you would with maybe
the ultra wide camera so you definitely could use that as well now with the ultra wide camera
because it's ultra wide it seems stable as well you get a little bit different audio
from it but you've got a nice wide angle where you can see everything in the background as well
now for most situations i'd probably just use the forward facing camera in 4k 60 it's good enough
that you can use it as your main camera your main youtube camera whether you vlog or record other
video the rear facing camera looks great as long as you have the right lighting so as long as you
light it properly this definitely could be the main youtube camera and i've compared this up to
many more expensive cameras and many people prefer the look of the iphone camera and that's compared
to some very high-end sony cameras so it just depends who you are but in general i think most
people will get a result they're happy with with this photos are great as well it generally gets it
right and most people will be very very happy with this camera for at least another few years unless
there's some major changes but night pictures everything else seems to be great with this
now should you pick up an iphone 12 pro well that really depends on your needs if you have a phone
that just doesn't work anymore and you can get a phenomenal deal on these well then definitely i
would pick one up i wouldn't hesitate they'll get updates for years to come however we're only a few
months away from the iphone 13 at this point in september apple should show us the iphone 13 and
if you have to have the latest and greatest you may want to wait for that where they're supposedly
going to have even better cameras as well as maybe better battery and also a little bit better
display if the rumors are true so the display could have promotion which is on the ipad which
means it would have a higher refresh rate of about 120 hertz and it would just make it even more
smooth so or smoother and when you're scrolling through different things it's just really nice to
use you have to see it to appreciate it but in general if those things don't matter to you to
you then i would definitely go out and pick one of these up if they had a buy one get one free
sort of deal or maybe a discount from your carrier so it's definitely worth picking up it's a great
phone and i highly recommend it to anyone looking for maybe something based on cameras that wants
to record video even make youtube videos i've recorded a lot of videos with these phones so let
me know what you think about them in the comments below if you'd like to get the wallpaper on the
iphone 12 pro the blue iphone 12 pro i'll link it in the description the other one should be in your
wallpapers that are included with the phone itself so if you'd like to get that though let me know
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