Good luck then with your new phone 😀. For me I would miss the pro motion. My iPhone is my main device for everything. As I don’t have a personal laptop only work laptop.
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Other 15 Pro / Pro Max heat gate ?
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Really? How hot is hot that you really cannot hold this phone that it will leave burn marks/tissue on your hand or start a fire? But it seems to me that if you’re using this phone, it’s going to give of it’s energy in the form of heat regardless of what phone model you have and the same when charging the thing as well. So the question remains as what materials would be a better choice to handle this issue that you have on hand right now to resolve this issue quickly!!! I have a 15 Pro Max and not even having this problem since picking it up September 15. I see in one post of the thermal imaging that it is hot, but is it being used intensely without enough gigs to handle the load or your bottlenecking really good. If this was a real safety concern right now, would the manufacture, Apple, issued an immediate safety recall in the first place to take it off the market and known customer’s possession that have them?
All the tests I have seen have been the pro models. Perhaps the regular 15 reports are the typical setup heat.
I definitely encountered this yesterday - phone getting very hot and having to stop to cool down when taking photos in pro raw (15 Pro Max) - was physically very hot to the touch. I assume they're just going to throttle it to fix but it's not very impressive.
This is pure speculation at this point. This would only be true if it were shown that this was a design issue with the A17 that could not be fixed any other way. Given that A16 iPhone 15 models are also affected, and the overheating seems to be somewhat random (though charging does appear to be at least related), it may also be a hung process that could be fixed in software.
The A16 models are extremely random. And I have read that apple accepted lower standard A17 chips, forcing them to increase the power to have the chips meet benchmark standards.
It’s better to wait and see what happens.
Kuo: iPhone 15 Pro Overheating Issues Likely Due to Thermal Compromises, Not 3nm Node
Complaints about heat issues with the iPhone 15 Pro models are not related to TSMC's 3-nanometer node that was used for the A17 Pro chip,...
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No complaints from my wife on her new 15 pro 256. Believe me, I would hear it.
I've intentionally not mentioned the heating things to my wife to see if she says anything to me about hers getting really hot. She hasn't yet... I don't know if that's because she hasn't noticed or if hers isn't getting that hot
With the extra input from Kuo, it seems like there are 2 issues here. Issue 1 is that the phone is heating up either randomly or while doing non-computationally intensive tasks (things like browsing social media or looking at pictures). That should be something that Apple can fix in a software update, as it is likely due to a software bug of some sort.Kuo: iPhone 15 Pro Overheating Issues Likely Due to Thermal Compromises, Not 3nm Node
Complaints about heat issues with the iPhone 15 Pro models are not related to TSMC's 3-nanometer node that was used for the A17 Pro chip,...
Issue 2 is that the design of the phone and the choice of titanium as the frame material means the phone is not as good as previous models at dissipating heat. That one is more problematic. Since Apple can't make a physical change to phones that have already shipped, its only option is to limit the sources of heat to prevent overheating. That would mean limiting charging rates and potentially capping the performance of the A17 via software when doing intensive tasks. I wouldn't personally care that much since I charge overnight and don't play games on my phone. But I know many people would care if it came to that.
I'm on the 15 Pro Max now and I was on the 14 Pro Max before.
Even though both get hot during charging (with a 30W charger, so maxing the 27W), I have not experienced any issues with regular usage.
Watching videos is fine. Taking photos and videos is also not a problem. I have not tried taking videos for multiple hours at a time though. I rarely play video games on iPhones, so maybe that'll possibly be an issue?
Even though both get hot during charging (with a 30W charger, so maxing the 27W), I have not experienced any issues with regular usage.
Watching videos is fine. Taking photos and videos is also not a problem. I have not tried taking videos for multiple hours at a time though. I rarely play video games on iPhones, so maybe that'll possibly be an issue?
I’ve seen MANY reports of phones running hot and easily broken backs *but* I’ve not seen one complaint from anyone with a standard iPhone 15/iPhone 15 plus are these phones seemingly not affected?
Thank goodness the OP put the word GATE at the end of the title, it wouldn't be a problem if we didn't use the word GATE 
On a serious note, my iPhone 12 pro always go extremely hot, so much so, that it would stop charging. So I'd have it plugged in my car, and using waze, I'd get messages that my phone overheated and would stop charging.
My point is I don't think this is a new issue
On a serious note, my iPhone 12 pro always go extremely hot, so much so, that it would stop charging. So I'd have it plugged in my car, and using waze, I'd get messages that my phone overheated and would stop charging.
My point is I don't think this is a new issue
While I am not currently having any heat issues with my 15PM, I did have heat issues with my 11PM. I can remember one of the times it started getting hot while in my pocket for absolutely no reason what-so-ever. I honestly thought it was going to spontaneous combust into flames it got so hot. That was pretty scary to me and why I traded it in for the 12PM as soon as that released.
My recommendation to anyone experiencing heat issues with your brand new 15 (beyond the initial restore process), I would strongly suggest you return or exchange it. It is not normal behavior and it will only get worse over time.
My recommendation to anyone experiencing heat issues with your brand new 15 (beyond the initial restore process), I would strongly suggest you return or exchange it. It is not normal behavior and it will only get worse over time.
Any initial indexing of photos and set up should be low priority background processes and not full blast engaging all the cores.
There could be two possibilities for this overheating - software bug where some process spins out of control, or manufacturing defect.
The fact that this is only happening to some phones doesn't really narrow it down. If it were me and I had one of the hot phones, I would take it back before the return window ends and wait to see what the resolution of this is.
I was going to order a 15p this week, but I'm going to wait.
There could be two possibilities for this overheating - software bug where some process spins out of control, or manufacturing defect.
The fact that this is only happening to some phones doesn't really narrow it down. If it were me and I had one of the hot phones, I would take it back before the return window ends and wait to see what the resolution of this is.
I was going to order a 15p this week, but I'm going to wait.
Same with my 12PM... on a regular basis, I'll see this message when I arrive at my destination and look at my phone.
10000%. Since I got the phone, I've seen the "Phone" app eat up large amounts of battery now several days since release - at the TOP of my battery list and I don't even use the phone that much. I killed the phone background process and rebooted the phone and it seems to fix it. I think there are apps that are running in the background that apple needs a point update for...
I setup my 15 Pro Max yesterday via phone transfer and I had zero heating issues. As a matter of fact, the phone didn’t even get warm.
During the initial setup and restore my 15 Pro was burning hot to the point that a message appeared and stopped charging until cool down.
After 5 days it is pretty back to normal EXCEPT during phone call. After 10 minutes it becomes very hot and the battery drop very fast (ie 1hr call battery 50% to 18%) For me too the phone App is always at the top of the battery list.