iPhone 17 Pro Max

I just bought my iPhone 17 Pro Max last Aug 21st in full price of $1,200 in a Power Mac Store.. I was about to wait for the 18 series but to me the iPhone 17 Pro Max has a slight advantage in terms of software fixes and even camera quality than the 18, the 18 series will eventually be the same after a year just like with all every new iPhone model release. But after watching some videos about the 18 Pro Max battery life and chipset, I think I should have waited a little longer 😢. But overall, I'm happy with my iPhone 17 Pro Max (256gb) Deep Blue purchase. It's also my 1st ever iPhone Pro Max purchase in full price. [...]

Here’s my one year ownership review. Great phone, great battery life, great camera, iOS 26 stability has been good, but not great. [...] I can’t speak to the durability, considering I’ve had my phone in a case since day one however when I took the phone out of the case to clean it, I noticed a chip on my plateau which is weird considering it’s never been dropped out of a case. 92% battery health after a full year. I will be grabbing a foldable this year as long as the price is within reason. [...]

Aww dammit I was waiting for a body refresh with M6, but this is still M5… Why are Apple's new product lines so..self-defeating now? I wanted to get the iPhone Duo but it has worse cameras than my iPhone 17 Pro Max, and now this Mac.. Looks like people who want the best of everything will have to skip this year.

Got my 17 pro max on the 8th of August and dayum it's amazing I love mine Sooo much especially the battery life and cameras coming from a 13 base model and having a bigger iPhone finally feels Soooo amazing and I'll keep mine till I upgrade again in 2029 and I made sure to get super strong protective cases as I've always done so I'm sorted for a long while

I have loved my iPhone 17 Pro Max since the day I received it last October. [...] I'm totally impressed with the 17's camera. My pictures and videos are so very good. [...]

My experience with the new Siri is objectively worse. I am on an Iphone 17 Pro Max and all searches are very slow, accessing utilities has slowed down quite a bit, lagginess when settings timers. [...] I've been using the OS since the RC. [...]

[...] My experience for iPhones is iPhone 6+ (which was amazing), then I've been at Android world (Sxx series), and now I have iPhone 17 Pro Max, and truly wonder what is the value proposition here. Feels really buggy, UI tries to be Jolla-like gesture-based, but fails to do that, default style reminds that it is made by/for a kindergardener. And there is no "home" button anymore, that resets my virtual position to something safe/familiar, now I'm trying to swipe up/down/left/right, and there is always some new screen layout. On the macOS side, it gets more locked and buggy and inconsistent with every release. [...]

I upgraded from a 14 plus to a 17 Pro Max and have been very happy with it. Bought mine on launch day and the battery life by far has been the most impressive feature for me. [...] By the time I go to bed at 11pm my battery is anywhere between 60% to 55%

I went from the 17 pro max to the 18 pro max. A nice battery upgrade. [...] 17 pro max is excellent also but the 18 pro max holds the fps more consistently without overheating. [...]

[...] The camera quality is amazing and aside from the millions of photos in my camera roll that I pay for extra icloud storage — I love my phone and haven’t been too intrigued or convinced on buying a new one. [...]

I have the deep blue 17 pro max and I have to say this phone is awesome and performance is amazing and no scratches or dents that vape chamber is a game changer in cooling it’s to bad Apple didn’t put it in the 15 pro max

While the 18 Pro Max did get heavier than the 17 Pro Max, I love the insane battery life which is a noticeable improvement over the 17 Pro Max. The charging speed is also noticeably faster, especially the charging CURVE. It charges faster than the 17 PM well into the 80s and 90s (percentage). I appreciate the cinematic mode upgrades and the low light photography, compared to my 17 Pro Max and the pro controls go a long way. Audio Mix has also been improved, which I use.

Have had the 17 pro max for a year and it’s perfect had my last iPhone xsmax till I got this one and the change wasn’t major besides I had to disable the stupid buttun they added to the side of the phone … haha the camera is great and the being able to zoom outwards and capture more of a scene was the most useful upgrade feature to me and the battery life literally have never ran the phone dead with moderate charging haha … definitely don’t have to charge phone every day unless k am driving a lot and just letting it stream movies and YouTube to have background noise .:. It’s actually amazing how good the battery is on this phone compared to the xsmax phone although that was a great phone never stopped working for years and when the screen finally got a dead spot to touch sensitivity I went to Apple Store and bout the new one… definitely Apple is the way to go

I have the 17 pro max and absolutely hate it. It’s constantly lagging and if I’m using the phone while someone call, the ringing hangs/ stutters?? [...] The keyboard is slow AF. The screen gets stuck way more times than often. I didn’t even know that was a thing until I bought this phone. What finally did it for me was when my phone died and it took over 3hrs of charging to start back up. It gave no indication that it was charging, just said my phone is finadable. I thought the stupid phone was broken. [...] I would expect it to be AT LEAST half way charged for as long as it sat on the charger but it came back on and it was still on 2% battery. [...] Forget that, i want durability, quality, and dependability now.

I had to give up my iPhone 8 and bought a 17 Pro max after Apple no longer support upgrades. [...] Grateful for its long running battery life and the camera. Definitely allows for some great pictures.

I’ve upgraded nearly every single year to the newest iPhone, and this is the first time I truly have no issues. My 17 Pro Max battery is phenomenal and the only way they’ll get me to upgrade to another iPhone is to substantially increase the battery which I don’t see happening within the next few years.

[...] It's still good, but the storage is almost filled out, and the battery is a bit degraded. [...] I'm definitely gonna go for the 17 pro max, and its better for the budget. [...]

Honestly I think the 17 Pro Max I have is one of the best phones I have ever used. [...] The battery life is outstanding I get 7 hours of screen time and use 50 percent of the battery watching TikTok, Youtube, using all social medias and this might be peak iPhone because the changes for the 18 Pro Max are minimal. I would recommend the 17 Pro Max any day and honestly I change my phones yearly but this one I am not because of how the device has performed.

Im someone who puts their phone in a case right after unboxing and I can tell you I have had more scratches in 8 months the on my 17 pro max than I did in almost 5 years of owing a 12 pro max. Very poor build quality for the money

I just got my iPhone 17 Pro Max one month ago and my cycle count is 10 battery health is 100%. If you’re wondering why my cycle count is 10 in a month is because I only charge my phone two times in two days I don’t charge it every day. I charge it two days per two days. When I become more busy and I use it a lot more than I will charge it once per day I also use a second iPhone as a main second phone so I don’t have to put a lot of wear and tear on my new phone 17 pro max. [...]

My phone has been in a ONN clear case since day one and except for some software glitches I've hadn't had any issues with mines. I have had even less software issues with IOS27 update. Apple has really fallen behind Android , the Snapdragon Gen 5 and upcoming Gen 6, just blows Apple's A19 and A20 processors away.

I haven’t had a screen protector on my iPhone 17 Pro Max since release, and I have zero scratches anywhere. Barely drop my phone as well.

[...] I got the battery changed by Apple 4 months ago so it's still solid. I don't know whether to wait for the 18 announcement with NAND/DRAM prices the way they are, I'd imagine the new phones will be more expensive. Should I just buy the 17 Pro Max now? [...]

Very Nice vidéo, i love my 17 Pro Max but its really bad about durability compare to my previous 15 Pro Max i change my 17 Pro Max with AppleCareOne last week he was totaly broke, battery capacity 93% for 355 cycles. [...] But the battery on my 15 Pro Max was better than my first 17 Pro Max lets see with this new. (Now i Have 9h30 screen On time with 97% battery use)

[...] I have an iPhone 17 Pro Max and use it to capture HEIF 48 and ProRAW images for Lightroom. There’s no doubt of the extraordinary capabilities of modern phone cameras. And there are camera applications that give you a sense of the sensor data captured, which only further illustrates the dazzling wizardly between sensor capture vs the image seen by laypeople. That said, there is literally no comparison between the iPhone camera and the RAW photos captured on a modern full-frame mirrorless camera like my Nikon Z6III or Z9. [...] The large sensor size and lenses (that can make a Mac Studio seem cheap by comparison) serve a purpose. Try capturing even a remotely similar image on an iPhone in low light, and especially RAW, and you’ll be sitting there waiting seconds or more for a single image. Professional lenses can easily contain 25 individual lens elements that move in conjunction as groups for autofocus, zoom, motion stabilization, etc. [...] You can handhold a low-light shot at 1/15s to capture a waterfall with motion blur and continue shooting, with the camera optimizing the stabilization around the focus point—that’s the sensor and lens working in conjunction for real-time stabilization for standard shots, or “sports mode” for rapidly panning horizontally or vertically.

Currently have the iPhone 17 Pro Max last Aug 21st as my very first full purchase of a Pro Max iPhone. Rocking the deep blue iPhone 17 Pro Max (256gb) model coming from an iPhone 13 (256gb) baseline model. I should've just waited for the iPhone 18 Pro Max instead for it's extra battery capacity, 1 extra GPU core and the camera feature from the 18 Pro Max which is the vertical aperture. But the price difference is just worth it for me since the 17 Pro Max here in the Philippines costs less than the 18 pro max since the chipset prices are bumping up due to the current crisis. [...] however I'm happy to have gotten my hands on getting an iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Honestly, Mr Zollo, the software issues have diminished my user impression, of this device. I regret buying the 17pro Max because it came with iOS 26. A premium phone experience shouldn’t come with the bugs and resets after updates. The battery life is pure beast mode. [...]

I have the 14 Pro Max and I'm ready to upgrade to the 17 Pro Max. [...] I've dropped my phone too many times and the Otterbox defender completely protects it from dents, scratches, etc....

[...] I was having the baseband lock up and drop to SOS Mode on Verizon, so I got an AT&T eSIM (spent money). [...] So I got a T-Mobile eSIM (spent money). [...] My wife's iPhone Air with C2 has great connectivity, better than my 17 Pro Max did before I swapped it for 18. So I returned the Pro Max, got a Pro, am on T-Mobile full time and my signal strength is good now in buildings that I had 0 or 1 bar before, for years. [...]

17 PM, 85% charge limit, 151 cycles, not overnight charging, original charger and chord, not overheating, and still my battery health dropped to 98% after less than a year of use 😢 Idk why

Traded my 15 pro for a 17 pro max December last year. Really been enjoying it, not a heavy user, more for photography / video and editing in lightroom / DaVinci Resolve on my ipad afterward. So far battery is still 100% with 65 cycle!

I am using 17 pro max silver i purchased on first sale. its still ios 26.0.1 cycles 284 Battery health 95% . i am very satisfied i am not gonna upgrade my smooth iphone ios.

[...] Always kept in a case + screen saver. 100% Battery Life w/ 187 cycles. [...]

I’m so happy to hear someone that loves the deep blue 17 pro max, I have the same phone for a year now and it’s perfect.. I like the new 18 p and pm burgundy color but i don’t think that the upgrade from a 17 pm to a 18 pm worth it..

Every year I always buy the newest iPhone because I know the longer you wait your iPhone degrades in price so you end up not getting as much and we all know these phones are not cheap! [...] What I’ll do is, I’ll have a play with the new 18 Pro Max and see what I think if I get £800 for my 17PM and I wait a year later I’ll get £600 £650 people just don’t want to pay. [...]

I was surprised by the frame rate staying surprisingly smooth on an iPhone 17 Pro Max even after completing the entire wiki page, even though it got moderately warm. I guess these things really are powerful.

[...] Having more screen real estate and a larger battery is so much more beneficial than being able to reach everything with one hand, and then the popsocket pretty much solves the one hand issue. I can reach the top of my screen with my iPhone 17 Pro Max because my phone has a PopSocket on the back, and my fingers are below average short.

Thank you, Aaron. The 17 Pro Max is the best iPhone I ever had. I traded it for the S26 Ultra but I'm going back to iOS this year.

I have recently upgraded to an iPhone 17 Pro Max from iPhone X (yes, I buy once a decade or so), and I also take photos with a A7-III. The latest iPhone takes shockingly good photos. It's not a full frame mirrorless by any stretch, but it's really in another league when it comes to mobile photography.

I'm on 26.4 on a brand new 17 Pro Max, recently upgraded from a 13 Pro Max, and I have noticed absolutely no difference in the keyboard. It's still awful.

Update on Feb. [...] 1st and I have an iPhone 17 Pro Max to test with and... [...]

"Just get a bigger screen" is such a lame excuse, and it doesn't even work. Here's what chatgpt.com looks like on an iPhone 17 Pro Max with the page zoom turned up: It's such an absolutely pathetic use of the viewport space. And this is exactly that kind of thing that giving pages separate text scaling awareness instead of only page zoom will be able to improve. [...] Insisting that blind people should accept wasting left and right thirds of their screen space (seriously, look at the size of the chat bubble where you can see a tiny slice of it peeking through) on zooming in the white space and just buy bigger devices that don't even exist to accommodate this, all because uniformly blowing up all page elements is easier for developers is… I'll be polite and say it's not something I agree with.

iPhone 17 Pro Max (iOS 26.0.1) I have reproduced the pops everywhere I am able to manually trigger notes. I was fiddling with the guitar tones, then opened from the background when the audio broke. I tried repeating that, but no repro.

The design is not my cup of tea but whatever, my issues are the bugs. [...] I’ve never had such buggy behavior for simple interactions. And lest anyone blame my hardware, it’s a 17 Pro Max.

[...] The phone overall is still just as smooth as when i bought it and I've had it since literally day 1. [...]

Love my new IPhone 17 Pro Max. [...] It was well worth the upgrade. I bought a case before I went to Apple to buy the phone

I’ve received a silver iPhone 17 Pro Max as a gift and it’s my first iPhone I’ve ever had and I’m using it proudly for almost two mounts.Decent phone with so many features that made my life easier.

Great video of iPhone 17 Pro Max 1-year review. [...] I think that the iPhone battery health status should remain so that you know when you need to replace the battery or not. [...]

Had my deep blue iPhone 17 pro max 512gb ever since launch day I am at 98% battery health with 297 charge cycles absolutely love the phone going to hold on to it until at least iPhone XX max or even 2028 for second gen of iPhone XX

I have zero complain about my 17 pro max, it’s been a great phone. I had the 14 pro max before that and I loved that phone too