So last weekend I was unfortunately the victim of the high crime rate we have here in Johannesburg, South Africa. A good night with my two cousins and some friends of celebrating our Birthdays turned rather sour when I was mugged by what was at least 5 people while trying to get to my Uber.
Part of what was taken from me was my iPhone XS Max 256GB Space Grey. Had to go through the whole process of putting it in Lost Mode, doing an Erase request and removing from my iCloud account. I also got my network to Blackist the phone and block the SIM card.
Over the last week I have been getting endless Phishing texts to try get me to give up my iCloud details (this is obviously the syndicatate that got hold of my iPhone), anyway have not fallen for any of it, I reported the crime and sent the Phishing emails to Apples email address that deals with Phishing.
Luckily I had fully insured my XS Max, and today my insurance approved the claim for replacing my XS Max 256GB with an 11 Pro Max 256GB. Unfortunately most shops are out of stock due to Coronavirus
and so I spent at least 1 hour trying to find a place that had it in stock and luckily I found a small shop near my old workplace that had mistakenly ordered too many units, they are now one of the only ones selling iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Just picked it up this afternoon after work and I am happy.
First impressions:
- Definitely noticeably heavier than the XS Max, if you are a big phone lover be aware thr 11 Pro Max is very heavy! I love it but I can already tell that this weight will not be for everyone.
- Screen in great, I'm still going to give it a fair bit of use before saying if it's a huge jump from XS Max but off the bat it looks about the same as XS Max which was already great!
Lesson of the dat: Comprehensively Insure your iPhone! It will make everything less painful
Already got a case on it
Part of what was taken from me was my iPhone XS Max 256GB Space Grey. Had to go through the whole process of putting it in Lost Mode, doing an Erase request and removing from my iCloud account. I also got my network to Blackist the phone and block the SIM card.
Over the last week I have been getting endless Phishing texts to try get me to give up my iCloud details (this is obviously the syndicatate that got hold of my iPhone), anyway have not fallen for any of it, I reported the crime and sent the Phishing emails to Apples email address that deals with Phishing.
Luckily I had fully insured my XS Max, and today my insurance approved the claim for replacing my XS Max 256GB with an 11 Pro Max 256GB. Unfortunately most shops are out of stock due to Coronavirus

Just picked it up this afternoon after work and I am happy.
First impressions:
- Definitely noticeably heavier than the XS Max, if you are a big phone lover be aware thr 11 Pro Max is very heavy! I love it but I can already tell that this weight will not be for everyone.
- Screen in great, I'm still going to give it a fair bit of use before saying if it's a huge jump from XS Max but off the bat it looks about the same as XS Max which was already great!
Lesson of the dat: Comprehensively Insure your iPhone! It will make everything less painful
Already got a case on it



