Apple Books doesn’t have a dedicated e-reader and from what I’ve seen all the books are more expensive than getting them from Amazon. Cool for people who don’t care about those things though.

Wow that’s a huge difference!

40mm SE is too small, and Apple didn’t want to give it to 44mm so they decided to make it exclusive to S7 and up. Unfortuantely Apple sometimes does stuff like that and gives you no freedom to choose whether you want to enable it or not. It should be an option in settings with a warning available for all models.

I mainly just want Siri improvements and further developments to their stock applications. I love Notes, Reminders, Calendar etc. Having a new OS to toy with is fun but fundamentally those are the only things that I care about

Oh and let me archive my iMessages please 😂

what was your heart rate before

A lot of the tests were done before the 15 pro max got the ios update to fix overheating issues. Now the pro max has better battery life from what I’ve seen, though this video cuts it very close.

I guess I’d record it manually but I always have my watch on when workout out

If I wanted to use my Apple Watch in low power mode and disable all the features I paid for I’d rather just buy a Garmin. My series 7 with AOD enabled and a 1h workout barely lasts the day (10% remaining usually). If I turn off all the features I can get 2 days battery but as I said then what’s the point?

Try disable low power mode, enable AOD do some workouts, be active and use your watch throughout the day and I’m pretty sure your ultra will be at around 50%. That’s a more realistic use case.

Here’s the thing, lots of people wear small watches like Casios so there isn’t really a “too small” here.

You could get the larger Watch and have it fit perfectly fine on your wrist. It just depends If you want a larger Watch or not. I personally say the larger is better if it fits but it’s personal preference

Yeah most of the novelty of a new phone is because of software features not hardware and there isn’t anything new or exclusive to newer phones that older ones don’t have. For me the main thing is battery and performance. If those are granted then new hardware is not needed.

Two things.

1. Try using your phone for an hour or so with airplane mode enabled. Do you get the same problem in your hands? If so maybe the phone is cutting off your circulation in your hands because of a too tight of a grip? If you have low circulation in your hands and started gripping a massive phone with a new design then surely it could cause problems? 8 plus has curved corners, whilst the 15 pro max is squared.

2. Look into PWM sensitivity. Apparently OLED displays can lead to intense headaches in certain individuals. Your previous phone would’ve had LCD which is fine, but the 15 Pro Max has OLED. There’s a subreddit with plenty of people talking about the issue. Only thing you can do is get an LCD display it seems.