We’re massive followers of the iPhone 14 Professional Max right here at TechRadar, and its 6.7-inch show is a significant component in our calling it “actually the perfect of every part within the present iPhone world.”

Now, DisplayMate (opens in new tab) – the acknowledged authority on cell image high quality – has awarded Apple’s newest flagship its highest show efficiency grade (A+) after the machine set 15 (fifteen!) show efficiency information throughout testing.

DisplayMate discovered the iPhone 14 Professional Max’s Tremendous Retina XDR show to be able to reaching a max brightness of two,300 nits – that’s nearly double the nit-count of the iPhone 13 Professional Max (which boasts the identical show measurement and backbone) and a few 500 greater than that of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Extremely (based mostly on Samsung’s personal claims (opens in new tab) from earlier this yr).

Let there be gentle

Regardless of sharing dimensions and backbone, Apple’s most up-to-date top-end iPhone improves upon its predecessor’s show by including a handful of recent options, together with an always-on show mode and a brand new Dynamic Island centered across the telephone’s sensor. 

Evidently, although, the iPhone 14 Professional Max can also be considerably brighter than the iPhone 13 Professional Max, having now usurped its older sibling because the recipient of DisplayMate’s Finest Smartphone Show award. Apparently, Apple advertises the iPhone 14 Professional Max as providing as much as 2,000 nits of brightness – but DisplayMate managed to file a determine of two,300 nits.

The diagnostics firm has additionally credited Apple’s newest handset with awards for highest absolute colour accuracy, smallest shift in colour accuracy, highest picture distinction accuracy and depth scale accuracy, in addition to for smallest change in peak luminance. 

Sarcastically, the shows utilized by Apple within the iPhone 14 Professional Max are literally produced by Samsung, so we’d count on the latter’s subsequent flagship – more likely to be the Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely – to match and even exceed Apple’s newest handset for brightness.

For now, although, the iPhone 14 Professional Max is the brightest smartphone on the block – even when the Samsung S22 Extremely stays our prime general choose of the perfect telephones cash can purchase in 2022.