My iPhone 11 Pro Max Was Faster Than My iPhone 13

Simple Alpaca
3 min readOct 16, 2021

Welcome back everyone, the other day something really weird happened, I was doing a speed comparison between my iPhone 13 that just came out and my iPhone 11 Pro Max, and for some reason, my iPhone 11 Pro Max during that speed test was actually faster than my iPhone 13, at least for opening up those specific applications. Now, I want to take this in two parts, the first part being: app opening speeds aren’t everything, they are just one piece to the puzzle, they don’t really mean the phone is necessarily 100 times faster every single time, but if the iPhone 13 is even sometimes slower than my iPhone 11 Pro Max, or any iPhone that’s older than it, it’s a very strange thing because you’re spending more money on a faster phone, it has a latest and greatest chipset, it should technically be faster every single way you look at it, even if you’re doing basic things like app opening.

As I mentioned, all these apps were pretty much up to date, I repurchased the 11 Pro Max the same day that the 13 comes out, and I updated all the apps, everything was the same on both of them. As I mentioned, in a basic setting like this where the iPhone 11 Pro Max and the 13 we’re literally just opening up the apps…

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