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Other 15 Pro / Pro Max heat gate ?

No heat issues with my 15 Pro at all. I do phone to phone transfer with a new phone.
 
Wondering if the case redesign (that makes it easier to replace back glass) has changed the thermal transfers or how the iPhone transfers heat from the processors. The iPhone 5 through 7 with metal (as opposed to glass) backs did tend to get quite hot when you didn’t use a case.

I still use an iPhone 7 (no case) almost daily for games at home as well as other forms of media consumption (and sometimes creation). Despite doing 4K video editing and comparing batch processing speeds (for photos) with my 14 Pro, I have yet to find my 15 Pro feel anything close to getting as hot as my 7.

Sure it warms up, but doesn’t come close to how hot the metal backed phones I still use in my collection.
 
jclardy said:
I'd give it a week. People still don't understand - for the first few days your phone is downloading your 200gb of iCloud photos (Yes, all of them from the very beginning, to recreate the search index of faces that goes through your entire library), then locally running ML models on every image to detect objects/people/pets/image types/etc. The phone does it when it is plugged in to the wall (Or a battery bank you are holding.) This is likely the most computationally expensive thing your phone will do in it's entire lifetime.

So you have a brand new phone, you are using it a lot more, then you plug it in because your battery is low, then all the background processes start...you pick it up to use it 20 minutes later and post to Twitter.

In my experience so far I haven't noticed any heat, my 14 Pro had much more random heatups.

That said - there still could be an issue because of the new construction - like that new internal aluminum frame acting as a heat spreader, and the titanium absorbing it.
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So, if someone doesn't have any photos in iCloud and barely uses iCloud in general should not experience this same heat on their device? If so, does anyone here fit this criteria and do you still have a hot phone?
 
Yesterday I had my phone (iPhone 15 Pro) in my pocket while watching a football game. I can say that during the 90 minutes the phone felt warm in my pocket. During the break, I closed all background applications and turned off mobile data, the phone remained warm in my pocket... I can't understand what's going on here.
 
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setting up any new iphone from backup results in overheat and we will get message that it will stop charging too. This is very common for all models especially if you are transferring "lot of apps/data"
 
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Mity said:
So, if someone doesn't have any photos in iCloud and barely uses iCloud in general should not experience this same heat on their device? If so, does anyone here fit this criteria and do you still have a hot phone?
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I don't have 200 GB of iCloud photos. Defiantly less. I can say that the initial set up on Friday night did result in hotter then expected feel, so far its been OK. Nothing too out of the ordinary.
 
klaudio said:
Did a 60 mins phone call while not charging and resulted as being very hot and battery dropped from 52% to 19% 😱😱
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Still happening to me also as of today, 3 full days after the new 15 Pro was set up. Totally unacceptable. Has not experienced this overheating while any other activities are taking place on the phone. Didn't even overheat during initial setup and transfer.
 
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My experience: Got my 15 Pro Max yesterday afternoon. Download everything from my 14 from iCloud. Everything was done and my phone was charged to 100% around 6pm. Didnt use it much. Went to bed around 11pm kept wifi on only while sleeping not plugged in, phone was at 92%. Woke up 6:45am phone at 91%, I turned off airplane mode had 3 bars (Verizon) but also wifi on. I played on the phone and immediately tried to log into X and kept getting error, used safari to google the X login error and then deleted the X app went re installed X logged in and then played on instagram for a hot second, and then noticed my phone was at 85% in like 10 min time. Got up made coffee was using my phone and it was getting hot as hell, and every min or so battery percentage went from 84%>83%>82% and now its been at 81% since 7am and its now 8:11am.
 
Running the Uber app made my phone so hot that I had to place it in the cup holder of the Uber. I tried clearing the ride details off the Lock Screen and still it was extremely hot, not just warm. Outside of that I have not had any heat issues so I’m hoping that it was an isolated incident or Uber will update their app. Edit to say my battery fell 7% in the 10 minutes ride. I’m paying super close attention to battery life since I’m debating going max for the first time purely for battery.
 
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So far, thermals have been better on my 15PM over my 14PM. 14PM seemed to get hot very easily. 15PM didn't even get warm during setup/phone transfer.
 
New 15PM here, seems fine so far. Just warm when charging and when restoring, over a finewoven case
 
Misos said:
Really? That game heats up my 15 pro max in a few minutes. What settings are you running?
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I use the highest settings but also (I forgot to mention!) the power saving mode. Also with the 14 Pro that was warmer in comparison. As far as I know, power saver do limit cpu but not the gpu
 
hovscorpion12 said:
I am highly leaning towards returning mine. Especially looking back at the Samsung Note 7 incident. I can't play no games.
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That was a battery defect though, not an overheating issue

Then yeah heat will age a battery quicker

Anyway, it's not a widespread problem, my 15PM is fine. I used a lot the camera today, still cold
 
I don’t seem to be having any heating issues. If anything, this phone seems to be cooler than my 14PM.

It was warm during the first day install, but it was downloading 400GB worth of apps and files back.
 
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It's already the 3rd day after transfer. And currently I am in an indoor office with AC.
 
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No issues here. It got a little warm when setting it up due to all of the apps downloading, etc but overall it's been perfectly fine.
 
I'd be interested if someone that has excess heat has setup from a phone to phone transfer. Maybe some files are getting moved over that cause a conflict between models and causing the issue. I 'transferred' from an android so all it really moved was photos, vids, texts and contacts and my phone has been quite cool.
 
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