I got my Silver iPhone 14 Pro Max yesterday after a delay with the courier .......
I had a lot of trouble setting it up, it wouldn't recognise my SIM card, I just kept getting options to set an eSIM, here in the UK only one carrier so far has adopted eSIM and it isn't mine, I really think Apple should make that clearer. So, I skipped it and carried on but It took some time before my carrier details appeared in 'About'.
Then the Mail app wasn't showing any mail, nothing worked so eventually I added it as a new account.
There were a couple of other issues but....... now it's all done and, it's gorgeous...
I just have to get to grips with all the new features now.
Dynamic Island is great.