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overheating

  1. WillRRRR

    iPhone X Overheating my iPhone X

    Info my iPhone X Before I received my iPhone X, My parents (Sheila Archer & John Norman Archer) bought iPhone X on November 8 2017. I received my iPhone X for my birthday 2018 (February 23 2018). I erased my iPhone 7 Plus (256GB/Black/At&t) when my iPhone X restore complete. I given my iPhone 7...
  2. imrazor

    Retina 2012 13" MBP overheating (>100ºC)

    I recently picked up a 2012 Retina MBP 13" with a broken screen that I've been using as a desktop until I can get the screen repaired (or do it myself.) I've noticed that when doing something as innocuous as playing HD video the temperatures can get quite high. Now that is with 12 or so...
  3. Y

    Witcher 2 - fans get very loud

    I have a macbook pro Mid 2015 i7 2.5 Ghz 16GB RAM Radeon R9 2GB 512 SSD etc. (high end model from 2015) Basically the game runs really smooth and I can run Witcher 2 on high settings. What bothers me is that after a couple of minutes after launching the game (around 3 minutes), the fans are...
  4. joogo

    Constant hardware issues with new Macbook

    Hi Everyone, I have a new 12-inch MacBook for almost a year now and I have constant issues with it since the moment I bought it. Here's my story: 1. I bought my MacBook in the Apple store in Canada in December 2016. Right after that, I moved to Poland and after about 3 weeks time, the first...
  5. A

    iPhone X Overheated when using Wired and Wireless Charger Simultaneously

    So the iPX got super hot and shut down while i was doing a wired charge on my iPX (IQ USB port; 40w charger), AS WELL AS resting the phone onto my wireless Anker charger as well. the iPX was wirelessly charging for approximately 10 seconds before I took it off. It was already warm from being...
  6. Q

    Usability of the 2017 MacBook/MBP

    I haven't bought a new MacBook in so many years, but I'm now thinking of buying the new 2017 MacBook or MacBook Pro. However, before I do I've a couple of questions: Last time I checked, one was not supposed to use a MacBook in bed or on a pillow (as advised in...
  7. B

    Iphone 7 heating bottom/home button

    Hello everyone. I've bought an Iphone 7 (iOS 10.3.3) less than a month ago. I really love the phone and everything though after the first week I noticed how the bottom part behind the home button starts get warm after using it for 10 minutes. Spotify + bluetooth headset causes this, browsing...
  8. mrGott

    Overheating: Mac Mini HDD replacement - Samsung 850 Pro

    Hey everyone! I need your advice. 2 days ago I replaced my Mac Mini's (Late 2014) HDD with Samsung 850 Pro 250GB SSD. First day was fine but today I noticed that it was terribly hot on the surface. During almost 3 years of usage it's never been this hot. I just followed a guide on youtube...
  9. rudychidiac

    Magsafe charger is overheating

    Hi guys, As the title says, my Magsafe "brick" is overheating whenever my MacBook Pro is charging (I have a 15" 2015 MacBook Pro) It's too hot that it burns the fingers. One of the two green LED lights stopped working The cable is yellow around the Magsafe brick, and is fraying. So my question...
  10. kevinakerberg

    Resolved 2011 27" iMac Overheating Issues

    Hi everyone, I bought a used 2011 27" iMac outfitted with the 3.1GHz i5-2400 processor, 8GB of RAM, the 1GB HD 6970M GPU, and the standard 1TB hard drive back in December of 2016. The machine was very well taken care of and had no issues. It even came with all of the documentation, keyboard and...
  11. horace528

    MacBook Pro 7,1 (13 inch, Mid 2010) issue during update (sleep light flashing rapidly, loud beeping)

    Hello, I was just getting around to update to 10.12.4, and left the MBP to do its job. While the software update was doing its work on the reboot, at the "8 minutes left" mark, the monitor suddenly turned off, and the sleep light started to strobe rapidly, shortly followed by a high pitched beep...
  12. B

    Is my battery overheating?

    I have a Mid-2014 15" Retina Macbook Pro. Coconut battery is telling me that my battery temp is 109F. Is this too hot? Also, my CPU temp is at 100F but after looking through the forums it looks like there's nothing wrong with that temp.
  13. coolsean20

    iPhone 7 Plus overheating and battery drain

    I am trying to figure out why my iPhone 7 Plus (128GB,AT&T) has been getting extremely hot and why the battery is draining really fast. I'm starting to think I have a defective iPhone. Is anyone else experiencing this? I updated to iOS 10.2.1 last night and it was hot enough to burn my hand.
  14. L

    Iphone 7 & Heating?

    Does anybody find that after about 10 minutes of use their iphone 7 begins to get really hot?
  15. 1_orange

    MacBook Air shuts down after a few minutes

    Hi Mac users, Problem: My MacBook Air shuts down spontaneously after a maximum use of 2 minutes, sometimes even while its booting up. It doesn't go to sleep mode, from one second to another black screen and my laptop is off. Opinion from repair store: In a repair store they told me the...
  16. dafish

    over heating mbp using Sierra

    Using Safari causes mbp to overheat and fan run at high speed. Activity monitor under CPU reads Safari 200 plus current web site 200. Yet using Firefox reads FF 200 current site only 20. Can somebody tell me how I might cool things down.
  17. D

    Macbook Pro 2009 Overheating / Battery issue?

    Hi All, First post here - I see there are various threads related to over heating MBP's. However I would like to know if its possible if a swelled battery could be causing overheating? My touch pad has been pushed out - it still responds, but cannot be clicked. This tells me the battery has...
  18. D

    Your Mac May Sleep to Cool Down

    I was playing Starcraft 2 for a couple of hours in a reasonably warm room and I had that notification waiting for me when I quit, also saying that Starcraft 2 was responsible for the overheating. The system didn't actually shut down though. This is the first time I've seen this happen. Has...
  19. S

    iPhone 7+ Broken Already!

    Received my phone on Friday (iPhone 7+ Rose Gold 128GB), set it up and all. Fast forward to Sunday.... its in my bag when I grab it there's a message about it being too hot. I wait for two hours for it to cool down. Took the case off put it out in open air to cool down. After it cools down...
  20. G

    Graphics card overheating / kernel panic /smc fan control?

    I have a mac pro 1,1 (upgraded to 2,1) tower 24GB of Ram with with two Quad core INTEL XEON X5355 2.66GHZ processors making 8 CORE. The current Graphics card is a ATI Radeon HD 4870. I am getting kernel panics when I'm working on large audio mixing / editing sessions in pro tools 10. These...