iPhone 11 & 11 Pro Hidden Features! New Apple Secrets

This video is brought to you by RhinoShield. Yo what's up guys, Sam here. I have the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 11 Pro in hand right now. I've been spending some time with these devices and I wanna show you some hidden features and changes that you probably don't know about. Obviously there's a new camera, obviously there's a faster processor, and of course the battery life is better year over year. But I wanna show you guys some really neat stuff that you probably didn't even know Apple had been working on. If you're looking forward to that, drop a like down below. Hit subscribe for more on the iPhone 11. I wanna go ahead and get started with the new glass in the iPhones this year. Now you know that on the iPhone 11 Pro there is a new frosted texture, but did you know that the glass on both of these phones, even though the iPhone 11 isn't frosted, is actually the strongest glass in an iPhone to date. And Apple claims it's the strongest glass in a smartphone ever. Now I personally am not planning to go out and throw my phone on the sidewalk because I don't exactly wanna test that claim. But according to sources online, it's already done better than any iPhones have done historically. So the truth of this is that if you drop it once, it might not be the end all be all. And to be even more safe, I throw a RhinoShield case on my phone each and every single year to make sure that when my phone might fail, my case will not. I've been working with RhinoShield who sponsored today's video for such a long time, I couldn't even tell you when we started working together. The reason I keep having them back year after year is because I don't use any other phone cases. There is a style for you no matter what kind of case you like. If you want that full device protection, get a solid suit. For me, I like something a bit more lightweight. I love bumper cases. So I use a crash guard or mod NX case. They have insane drop protection. Plus they're even working on impact skins now where instead of just looking aesthetically cool on the back of your phone, you could like hit the back of your phone with a hammer and it will not crack because of the way they've reinforced it. Those aren't out for the new phones yet, coming soon. But if you have an older device, like an iPhone X or an iPhone XS, they are out for those devices now. Right now, you guys can get 15% off your order using code iUPDATE and clicking my link down below, which is an insanely good deal. In a world where everyone makes an iPhone case, there's a reason I choose RhinoShield each and every single time. Next up, while both the iPhone 11 models get a new camera app, they also get something exclusive to that camera app that no iPhone before has ever had. And that is a new camera font. Apple is calling it SF Camera, stands for San Francisco Camera, San Francisco being the font of the iOS operating system and camera being the camera app. You don't notice it until you compare it to something like the iPhone XR, for example, and you'll notice immediately there is a subtle difference in font choice. Now, it was no secret that Apple had an obsession with detail, but I feel like this might be taking it a step too far. Something else that you might not notice right away inside of the camera app is a new feature called QuickTake. Now, it used to be Burst Mode, but now on the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 11 Pro, if you keep holding down on the camera shutter button, traditionally that would take a lot of photos. Now it actually starts recording video. So if you ever wanna capture something in the moment and a live photo or even burst photos aren't enough to do it justice, just hold down and you get QuickTake exclusive to the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 11 Pro. Unfortunately though, I feel like a lot of the time this is gonna end up in vertical video, which is a story for another day, but it's not great. Either way, you might be able to capture that moment. Now that you couldn't exactly get before you bought the new iPhone. When you take photos that require flash, the flash is now brighter on both the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 11 Pro. Now this one was really interesting because I saw the flash on the iPhone XR and I said, well, I can't really get much brighter. And then I nearly went blind, legitimately looking at the iPhone 11 flash. I don't know how Apple actually made it this much brighter year over year, but I'm recording the voiceover right now. And like two, three minutes later, I'm still seeing something in the middle of my eye. So health wise, it's probably not the best thing, but if you want a really good looking photo in low light, then yeah, this is the way to go. Get one of these new iPhones. It's very bright. I don't know if the video camera does it justice. Just see one in person and point it at yourself. You'll learn real quick. Apple also added something a bit more creepy inside of the camera app. And I don't know exactly how they've done it, but they took a chapter out of Samsung's book to integrate audio zoom into the camera app. What this does is when you zoom in on something, it will dynamically enhance the audio of that and try to drown out everything else around it. Now it's sort of hard to see or even portray in video, but here's a quick demo. And speaking of audio, Apple's made some nice upgrades here as well. I'm talking about Dolby Atmos and spatial audio. Essentially both of these work together to give you a more immersive experience. And while the speakers to me don't get louder year over year comparing it to the older iPhone XS and iPhone XR, it definitely sounds more full. I feel like I'm hearing more of what's going on. And while Apple says you're gonna feel like you're inside the action, I don't exactly think that's true. I mean, obviously using headphones is gonna give you still a much greater audio experience. I think the quality has increased slightly year over year, although truth be told, not that big of an upgrade. Moving on, Haptic Touch replaces 3D Touch in all three of the new iPhone models this year. Now, if you used an iPhone XS last year, you know it had that pressure sensitive display that Apple marketed as a flagship feature back in 2015 on the iPhone 6S. Well, last year with the iPhone XR, it went away there and Apple added long pressing or Haptic Touch to replace it. Now it works pretty well. And iOS 13, the software that runs here has been heavily optimized to work well with that. But if you're used to 3D Touch, the new iPhones actually don't have that at all. Apple's actually taken away a feature year over year, which is something that the smartphone industry rarely if ever does. So if you're looking for it, know that it's just all long presses now, but the screen itself, that's not pressure sensitive any longer. Next up is an iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max exclusive. They have the brightest screens on iPhones ever now. Last year, the iPhone XS and XR and even the iPhone 11 this year maxed out at 625 nits of max brightness. However, this year, if you get an iPhone 11 Pro or an iPhone 11 Pro Max, that can be boosted up a whole 175 nits to 800 nits. That is an incredibly bright display. I've always sort of had a minor issue with iPhone screens or phone screens in general, just not getting that bright when you're looking at it in direct sunlight. And I've already noticed a minor upgrade with the iPhone 11 Pro. Now it's not like day and night, like, wow, this is just genuinely so much brighter. But in times when you need that extra 175 nits of brightness, it's there. And again, this is only on the Pro models. Now taking a much closer look inside the iPhone 11 Pro Max, Teardown group iFixit discovered something incredibly interesting, that Apple shipped hardware for a feature that isn't actually out yet and that may never be out. Inside of this teardown, you can see some indication that Apple was working on reverse or bilateral wireless charging, meaning that while you could charge the iPhone 11 Pro wirelessly, you could also reverse charge devices like AirPods 2 or the Apple Watch. And Apple was working on this for a long time, but apparently the feature got canned at the very last second and Apple decided not to ship it, I would assume because of heat concerns of some sort. In fact, iFixit noticed that there was some kind of thermal detection for this reverse wireless charging that doesn't exactly seem to be activated. This is all super fascinating. Maybe it comes at some point in the future, but all is clear that something went wrong at the last second with reverse wireless charging and Apple does not want us to have our hands on that feature, at least just yet. Returning to hidden features on both these models, there is a new ultra wideband chip on the inside. And while that initially sounds like it would be something for cellular use, Apple's teased one feature that works right off the bat. If you wanna AirDrop a photo with someone or even a video, any sort of media, you can now using this ultra wideband chip actually point your phone at them and their device and they will show up first on the list of AirDrop. Now AirDrop in the share sheet in iOS 13 got a nice upgrade where artificial intelligence will dynamically and smartly suggest who you might wanna share with. But this takes that a step further. You can interact, sort of intervene as a human and say, I wanna share it directly with this person. And the new chip again, exclusive to these new iPhones will allow you to do that with ease. It's a pretty weird and I don't exactly know if it's gonna be that big of a deal, but this is all that Apple has revealed so far. They're hinting that many more features are coming in the future. What those are, we don't know just yet. Also hidden inside these phones alongside the A13 and ultra wideband chips is a new battery and performance limiting piece of hardware. Now this sounds really evil and mischievous right off the bat, but it's actually for your own good. At least that's what Apple claims. I'm sort of in the middle on this debate. You might remember a few years ago when they got in a ton of trouble for intentionally slowing down iPhones. Well, since then, since the iPhone 8 and then the iPhone 10, I believe in 2017, they've been including new battery and performance limiting hardware each year to essentially make it so that when your battery degrades, your software experience is still as good as it can be. Because when you have a battery that isn't properly charging or holding juice like it used to, it can't exactly send energy to other parts of the phone. So with this new hardware, Apple's sort of been ambiguous as to what exactly it does, but they just say it's gonna make that experience of a bad battery a little bit better. And hopefully they won't throttle you as aggressively as they were doing before they got caught. Inside of the settings app, Apple introduces new wallpapers every year. And this year is no exception. They're all live wallpapers, but Apple has also hidden dark mode versions alongside light versions. And you enable those of course, by enabling dark mode on your device. You can actually see it dynamically change while you're in the wallpaper selection menu. If you enable dark mode, you get a totally different looking wallpaper. Obviously the same base, but it sort of gets a neon vibe on the iPhone 11 that I really enjoy. I actually like the lower end quote unquote iPhone 11's wallpapers better this year, because if you go to the iPhone 11 Pro's lineup, they're just so professional. They're very like, oh look, you have the pro iPhone. They're like water or electric-y looking waves. And while the dark mode version definitely looks better, I think Apple could have done a slightly better job with these wallpapers this year. I really liked the iPhone XS wallpapers from 2018. And this high-end iPhone, while the true black OLED colors here make the display pop, it wasn't all that impressive. And for me, that wraps up the hidden features that I've discovered. And then I don't think Apple made super clear on the new iPhone models this year. But as always, I wanna hear your guys' thoughts. What do you think about these iPhone features? Do you wish Apple would have added anything else? Did you know about some of these, or did you learn something down below? Let me know. I've been Sam, drop a like if you enjoyed it. Hit subscribe for more, and I'll see all of you in my next video.