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Youโre still getting a decent display here though, as Apple has crafted and calibrated the screen to be clear, bright and sharp, despite only having a resolution of 1792 x 828 pixels.
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Thatโs lower than the 2436 x 1125 of the iPhone 11 Pro, yet you donโt feel like youโre getting a low-res screen here โ the brightness and strong color reproduction see to that.
Whatโs less attractive is the thicker border around the outside of the display โ these days weโre seeing a lot of phones, including ones with a lower price tag than the iPhone 11, come with edge-to-edge displays, and with no notch at the top .
Clearly Apple still clearly believes that this is necessary to house the front-facing camera and advanced FaceID sensor to let users get into their phone.ย
In terms of day to day use though, we found the iPhone 11โs screen to be clear, bright and easy to see even outdoors on bright days. It can run up to 625 nits of brightness, according to Apple, and thatโs enough for us in most scenarios - blinding if you look at it on full brightness when opening your eyes in the morning.
In terms of cinematic prowess, thereโs no high dynamic range (HDR) playback here - so you get something called โExtended Dynamic Rangeโ - which doesnโt have the same capability as an OLED-toting iPhone at playing back top-end movies.
The screen is slightly washed out in comparison to the iPhone 11 Pro Max, for instance, with the limitations of the LCD technology in the Liquid Retina display coming to the fore. It lacks the color depth and contrast ratio of the higher-spec phone, but is still perfectly serviceable for streaming Netflix or live sport, as we found in our testing.
iOS 13 and performance
As ever, Apple's new operating system is shown off to the fullest in its new iPhones โ this time around itโs iOS 13, and the iPhone 11 packs some nifty features as a result.
The first thing we really like is that the OS now has more well-rounded, intelligent mini-notifications. That means that when you switch the phone to silent, or you change the volume, the little element that pops up to tell you what's happening is more useful and also interactive.
It means, for example, that pressing a single volume key brings up a nice slider that you can control with a finger, rather than a box that covers the screen. It sounds minor, but such things will improve the way you interact with your phone day to day.