IPHONE 12 PRO REVIEW AND MY OPINION

Iphone  12 pro

as my main device for the last couple of

since it first came out i've been using

it as my primary device i didn't switch

back to another phone or anything

and what i can tell you is that for the

most part i've had

a pretty decent experience with this

phone but i don't think it was really

that big of an upgrade at all coming

from my iphone 11 pro

especially when it comes down to the

battery life and i hit on this on my

iphone 12 review as well

and you're probably confused because i

don't have a sponsorship or anything

usually every time i watch a video like

this

there's always some sponsor thing and

they take 50 minutes to get into the

video i'm just gonna break it down right

now

the battery life was one of the main

issues that i had initially when i was

getting my iphone 12 pro

when i first bought it i was like okay

like that it's probably going to be okay

but then eventually the rumor started

coming out that it was going to have

smaller battery size and that in and of

itself was something that kept me up at

night because

they already increased the battery size

in one area from going from the 10s to

the iphone

11 pro but why would they go and

decrease it it made absolutely no sense

to me

they increased the size of the screen

they increased the power and everything

so

and they were going to add 5g so i'm

like it's probably gonna just have

horrible battery life now what actually

ended up happening was was that

i did a bunch of tests with this phone i

did you know compared it to a bunch of

other iphones you've probably already

seen a couple

i've done camera comparisons battery

comparisons all set videos that you can

guys all just watch

and i pretty much saw that my battery

was actually

on paper better than what i was testing

against my iphone 11 pro and iphone 11

and iphone 10s

and all those other iphones that have

bigger battery sizes than this one

and it even beat my iphone 10s max which

i was very surprised about

but i pretty much came down to the

conclusion that it was an artificial

i guess decrease in battery life on

these older iphones because

ios 14 came out and that has been all

across the board

worst battery life and i didn't even

notice it until i eventually switched my

main device my iphone 11 pro at the time

and i updated to ios 14 and i was

noticing i was ending my day at like 20

even less than that when i would

normally end the day off at like 50

so that was a huge difference in my

opinion now with this phone

ios 14 was optimized for this device so

when i was doing that test

i saw that pretty much it was beating

all those other phones it didn't beat

any of my android phones except my

galaxy s8 which was very weird my galaxy

s9 outperformed this thing too which you

know

says something but on top of that right

now with the first like two days of me

using the phone it was pretty much

okay and then the first week or two i

was like all right that's fine but now i

think it's been like two or three weeks

since i've owned this phone

now the battery life has actually gotten

down even worse like i don't know what's

going on with it i'm at 87

i really haven't even used this phone

that much so it's very weird it's like

noon right now and i don't use my phone

that much if i'm being completely honest

usually typically i would still be at

like 90 of my 11 pro on ios 13. so

the battery life is one thing that i

feel like the 12 pro

is probably it's not gonna hold up too

well if i'm being honest it's going to

be probably comparable to something like

an iphone 10s

they decrease the battery size coming

from the iphone 10 and that's just

something that was very weird to me that

that was the case

i feel like once ios 14 gets better the

iphone the older iphones will probably

end up being better but

that was one area that i was really

focused in on in beginning with the

iphone 12 pro had pretty decent battery

life but right now it's kind of getting

worse and worse and i have to actually

kind of turn off 5g to you know save up

a bunch of battery

but you shouldn't just have to turn off

features to have a better battery life

they should have put

a better you know bigger size battery in

this device instead of shrinking it

they've increased the size of the body

to increase the size of the screen

you're telling me they couldn't have put

a bigger battery in here it makes

absolutely no sense

however on the plus side the build

quality of this phone is superb i love

the feeling of it

i don't want to put a case on it i don't

i haven't put a case on it yet i put a

glass screen protector on it

and i may or may not but i just love

feeling this phone i don't want to just

hate on its own too much

i sound like a spoiled brat but i feel

like this thing feels like a thousand

dollar phone you know i've held phones

like you know obviously like the iphone

4

iphone 5se those ones feel pretty

premium too

but this one has the extremely good heft

to it they shrunk down a little bit of

the body bezel around it

and with that stainless steel chassis or

whatever it is it feels extremely good

in the hand and it has such good have to

it

unfortunately if you drop it you know

it's probably gonna you know hit the

floor a little bit harder because it's

heavier

but this phone has apparently increased

in the durability department ib

certification is better which is

something that's huge

and when you're using this phone you're

definitely going to feel like you have a

thousand dollar phone luckily

in terms of the build quality just the

battery is one thing that

included you know mag safe charging but

i'm never gonna i have a magsafe charger

i don't use it

it's just kind of pointless and i think

they spent a lot of time talking about

it

but definitely the build quality is

superb in my opinion now on the front

that panel that 6.1 inch screen

i actually like it a lot you know i

think it's an improvement i guess from

the iphone 11 pro

only in the sense that it's you know a

bigger display i feel like everything

else about it is exactly the same in

some cases i kind of missed my 11 pro

panel because it was a smaller phone

but this one i think feels exactly the

same it's exactly the same panel for the

most part

i i think they may have hit on that it

was brighter or something i really don't

see it if it's almost exactly the same

those people are trying to hype it up

too much

but also when you look at the other side

it's like you look at all the other

phones across the board you look at even

like the oneplus 8 of the oneplus 8t

even the oneplus 7 pro from last year

had a 90hz refresh rate

i don't understand why apple didn't put

an increase in refresh rate here they

could have you know done 90 hertz

i would have rather taken something like

that than 5g if i'm being completely

honest

they're both going to kill the battery

life but at least i feel like though

90hz or 120hz refresher it would have

been

noticeably better something i could have

interacted with all day i'm always at

wi-fi so there's no point but like

the 90 hertz or 120 hertz refresh rate

is something that a lot of manufacturers

are doing and it just doesn't make any

sense to me that they didn't put it in

this device

i feel like at the end of the day it is

what it is we're probably going to get

it next year

but it's it's making me more hyped up

about the iphone 13 in my opinion

than the iphone 12 so that is something

i'm probably going to hit on later on in

this video

but other than that i mean the panel is

great now unlocking the phone and

actually using it day by day

like i said i've been using it for

everything for the last you know couple

of weeks

and on top of that i've been comparing

it against all those other phones too

and basically from what i've seen from

all my tests this phone

is a very fast phone you know it's

extremely fast it hasn't really slowed

down on me i've had a couple apps crash

here in here and i've got

other things happen but i i can depend

on this phone luckily you know with my

11 pro

with my iphone 10 i could easily depend

on those phones and i wasn't feeling

like it was going to just not work

anymore or

anything like that luckily and it was

very consistent you know consistent

performance across the board

it was pretty much i think at the end of

the day

faster than my previous iphones but when

you go back and i said this before with

my iphone 12 review

when you go back to the previous

generation like the iphone 11 iphone 10s

even iphone 10 i think there's marginal

increase in performance

from the iphone 11 to the 12 pro there's

really not that much from the 10s to the

12 pro a little bit

but i wouldn't even think you would

notice a day-by-day increase in

performance until you get to a phone

like the iphone 8 plus

and you know probably all those other

gesture based iphones i think the sc2 is

really fast

but when you compare those phones the

older home button iphones

those ones are a little bit slower

you're going to feel like you have a

faster phone going to the 12 pro for

sure

but i really wouldn't even recommend

updating unless you have an iphone 8

plus roller

based on the performance it just doesn't

really give me that vibe in my opinion

and i also saw that even though this

thing has that a14 chip

with six gigabytes of ram i really

didn't see it you know being that much

better in the ram management portion

it really did not feel like that in my

opinion it felt like it was very average

like if some apps were closing out on

this phone

where the 11 pro was still able to keep

it in the background it was beating my

iphone 12 which was good

but for all the other purposes like it

just really wasn't doing that well like

with six gigs of ram

i think he's either the a14 chip or

something is going on with this phone

that's not making it really use up all

that ram that it has

and it does close out a lot of apps in

the background now luckily i don't use a

lot of apps in the background i don't

multitask a lot

but for those of you who do this is the

best iphone i guess for it

it will probably get better over time

with software updates but it's also very

weird that that was the case so

i don't really understand that either so

in terms of performance that pretty much

covers it up

the camera quality has been very good so

far too i mean it's probably been an

improvement from the last you know

sensors i've used

but i'll say this and i'll say it again

like i just don't know how many people

out there

are filming you know 4k videos every

single day and making videos from their

phone

i think a majority of people are

literally just making snapchats or tic

tocs from their device or

putting instagram stories up or

something i don't think a lot of people

are trying to get the craziest best best

quality

i think like i said a majority of people

are just trying to just film

off snapchat and not have to think about

it and that's how i am that's how i i

mean i

never make videos on my phones probably

i i do sometimes

but i can still depend on this to do

really good video quality audio quality

all that stuff

but for some reason apple likes to spend

a lot of time talking about the cameras

i wish they talked about you know

like other features besides the camera

they added the lidar sensor which is

really cool

and i think that's an improvement and i

just don't know i mean the camera

quality is great and you know

i wish they did at 8k i feel like that

would have been awesome but i just don't

think there's just

a lot enough to hit on here of an

improvement for me to be like yeah you

have to upgrade because of the camera

now if you're coming from like an iphone

7 plus or iphone 8 plus

even maybe an iphone 10 or you may see a

little bit of a difference especially on

that front camera because you can do 4k

60 on the front of this

you cannot do 4k 60 on any of the iphone

10s 10 or whatever but you can do 4k

60 on the front of the iphone 11 11 pro

11 pro max and so it doesn't really make

any sense to upgrade from the 11 or 11

pro to this phone but if you have an

older phone just for the camera

and you had to upgrade for it you're

probably going to get a better front

camera on

something like this than on the iphone

10s or 10r to be

completely honest but the back cameras

quality wise is still good you're still

getting the ultrawide sensor telephoto

lens

the lidar sensor is included too so

definitely an improvement but

i mean it's very i mean if the this

phone was like 100 a 10 out of 10

perfect camera which it's not

the iphone 11 pro is probably like a 9.9

out of 10 like this can pretty much do

everything it's going to be exactly the

same for the most part and i've actually

had like i've said before

my fear of issues my fair share of

issues that was called on this phone i

mean

i feel like the software still has a lot

of bugs inside of it i have personally

haven't had a crazy amount of issues but

i've heard a lot of stories of people

having a ton of issues on this phone

battery life has been something that i'm

not really happy about i feel like my

phone could probably die at the end of

the day unfortunately

i've never really felt like that on my

iphone 12 or my iphone 11 pro

but this one that actually ends up kind

of being the case so i'm not really too

sure what's going to happen there

but really everything else has been

pretty normal it's been pretty average

i like the build quality i like this

phone overall i think my phone i think

this phone

has been net positive overall but my 11

pro i mean i kind of missed that phone

too because

it's cheaper now than what this phone is

and i felt like that

going from the iphone 10s to the 11 pro

was a better upgrade than going from the

11 pro

to the iphone 12 pro like i just don't

think that was that big of an upgrade in

my opinion

like it's just very average it's just

across the board it's just a very

average phone and i feel like i said the

same thing about the 11 pro

so this opinion could change very soon

but i feel like with owning these type

of phones like the 12 pros

it really makes me appreciate these

older iphones still like the 11 pro

even a phone like the iphone 10 that

phone was the first one to bring face id

and everything and

i'm really surprised that that phone

still holds up this well it's still

extremely smooth it still looks

extremely good

and it still like feels extremely

premium so that is something that i

really do like about this phone that it

makes me

like my older phones too but i think at

the end of the day if you were to pick

up the iphone 12 pro if you have all the

money in the world you know go for it

but i would still look at the other

options if you currently have like an

iphone 10

iphone 10s 10 or 11 i would 100 key but

i would not upgrade yet

i would literally wait for the iphone 13

or iphone 12s i feel like that's going

to be a bigger upgrade like i stated

than this phone

but the choice is yours but that's

pretty pretty much my opinion so far