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iPhone 13 Pro Max

Marketing claims50
Community reality89

Based on 104 credible posts from Bluesky, YouTube & Hacker News. 20 filtered out as bot-like or off-topic.

High confidenceA large sample of owners; this score is stable. How we score

Scored September 27, 2026

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Owner reviews

Overall owner mood

71% positive (74)21% mixed (22)8% negative (8)

Most owners are happy with it: 71% of 104 reviews are positive and 8% negative. Praise centers on battery & charging and display. The most common complaint is battery & charging (8 owners). Owners with 6+ months of use are more positive (82%), which suggests it holds up well.

What owners like

  • Battery & charging praised by 21 owners

    “I really take care of my battery and only operate in the charge levels 50-65% I still have 100% battery capacity left.”

  • Display praised by 10 owners

    “I’m rocking a Lifeproof NEXT case w/ screen protector and the phone still has no scratches on it, very clean and use it daily as my main device.”

  • Price & value praised by 10 owners

    “I’ll probably keep this one till Apple makes one worth upgrading to.”

  • Camera praised by 8 owners

    “I enjoy my cameras, I take great video, and I have virtually unlimited battery.”

What owners complain about

  • Battery & charging raised by 8 owners

    “And just now, battery went down to 96%.”

  • Display raised by 8 owners

    “I’m visually disabled so I wanted a bigger screen and I didn’t want to deal with any issues from the new camera cut out.”

  • Price & value raised by 7 owners

    “I have zero reason to go 14 as it would be money ill-spent.”

  • Camera raised by 4 owners

    “I’m visually disabled so I wanted a bigger screen and I didn’t want to deal with any issues from the new camera cut out.”

What owners talk about

  • Battery & charging21 praise · 8 complain
  • Display10 praise · 8 complain
  • Price & value10 praise · 7 complain
  • Camera8 praise · 4 complain
  • Software & AI5 praise · 3 complain
  • Performance3 praise · 3 complain
  • Build & durability1 praise · 4 complain
  • Customer support1 praise · 1 complain

Built from the reviews themselves — every quote links to the owner who wrote it.

iPhone 13 Pro Max long-term: how it holds up

Long-term owners feel about the same as new ones, so the iPhone 13 Pro Max holds up.

  • 6–12 months100% recommend · 3 owners
  • 1 year or more100% recommend · 14 owners

When problems show up

  • Battery & chargingtypically around 2.6 years · 2 reports

The claims, and the evidence

What the brand claims

No published claims on file for this product yet.

What owners report

  • “I bought my wife an iPhone 11 Pro Max in 2020, and, knock on wood, outside of replacing the battery it has been going on like a champ. I've offered to buy her a replacement phone but at this point I think she's kind of curious as to how much life she can get out of it. I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max; I bought it in 2023 but it was a refurb so I don't actually know how old it actually is. [...]”

    after 3 yearsView on Hacker News
  • “My phone, Vivers 3.0, is an iphone 13 pro max from summer 2022. [...] She has a big chip taken out of her screen. Just a tiny bit of lag. I bought her to last me 5 years, I’ll accept nothing less.”

    after 4 yearsView on Bluesky
  • “I have my iPhone 13 Pro Max for 4 years now and the only problem I really have is storage and the battery. I'm debating if I just replace the battery and let this run another year... [...]”

    after 4 yearsView on Hacker News
  • “I bought my iPhone 13 baseline (256gb) variant on March of 2021 and was so happy about it. But I had some sort of a regret of getting the baseline instead of the Pro Max version. After 4 years, I finally upgraded to the iPhone 17 Pro Max which is a massive leap from the baseline 13 🥰”

    after 54 monthsView on YouTube
Read all 104 owner reviews

Common iPhone 13 Pro Max problems

Issues at least two owners independently report.

  • Display8 mentions

    “Sad story of the day i was to market today to swap from my current 13 pro max 256gb to 14 pro max I can’t believe the price they are giving me because in Nigeria 13 series screen always develop screen issues that makes 13 series useless here in Nigeria and this phone I’m talking about I just got it not up to 2 weeks and some days 😢💔 I just left the market angrily like wtf 🤬”

    View on YouTube
  • Build & durability4 mentions

    “[...] I put a 3rd party extended battery in mine and it’s a beast. My FaceID sensor is broken, and I feel like my cameras aren’t perfect. [...]”

    View on YouTube
  • Price & value7 mentions

    “Sad story of the day i was to market today to swap from my current 13 pro max 256gb to 14 pro max I can’t believe the price they are giving me because in Nigeria 13 series screen always develop screen issues that makes 13 series useless here in Nigeria and this phone I’m talking about I just got it not up to 2 weeks and some days 😢💔 I just left the market angrily like wtf 🤬”

    View on YouTube
  • Battery & charging8 mentions

    “[...] For example, on the iPhone 13 Pro Max, You cannot set the battery to stop charging at 80%. [...] So can you say that the iPhone 13 Promax is actually supported for so many years with the latest and greatest iOS When apple doesn't actually bring these new features. [...]”

    View on Hacker News
  • Performance3 mentions

    “On my iphone 13 pro max when I pull down the notification drawers, the list stutters heavily, every single time. [...] Transparency on such commonly used functions are not just unnecessary, they add negative value. Add to that the stutters that did not exist before and you have the making of a frustrating experience. [...]”

    View on Hacker News
  • Camera4 mentions

    “[...] Once a losslessly compressed image is processed by post-processing software, the data is first decompressed, and you work with the data as if there had never been any compression at all. [...] RAW photos can be compressed, but if they are then they are "RAW Compressed" Files, not "RAW" files.Apple is not saying you are shooting RAW Compressed, it says you are shooting ProRAW photos, which is slick marketing because everyone thinks they are shooting RAW photos but ProRAW is not RAW. The iPhone 12 gave you a choice to shoot RAW or ProRAW, but my iPhone 13 ProMax only allows the ProRAW option. I have no option to avoid Apple processing my photos anymore. [...]”

    View on Hacker News

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