iPhone 12 Pro Max Help. 12 pro max heats up when charging!

[GrandeLatte]

Hi folks,

I'm so excited I received my 12 pro max in gold today. Been setting it up and playing with it all day. That is until later I decided to charge the phone, the device heats up really bad. Is this normal? What's going on? I'm using the little cord with the 20 watt charging brick.

Help!

 

[ericwn]

Maybe your phone is busy downloading additional data from the cloud or running some indexing on its files.

 

[Jordan921]

Your phone is working overtime to setup, so chargibg at the same time is gonna heat up a little more.

 

[Shadowbech]

I'd say give it a couple of day. Phones typically do heat up when charging.

 

[DexBell]

Had mine since launch day. Was warm while charging last night. It’s pretty typical

 

[PhillyGuy72]

Yeah, I would say give it 12-24 hours. After setting up mine, the back felt warm for a bit. Whole "indexing" thing, it's normal.

But it shouldn't be SO hot that you can't pick it up though.

 

[sjperformance]

My 12PM felt warm first 2 nights of charging. Afterwards no more issues. The optimized charging feature finally kicked in too.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

I would suggest using 5W wall charger.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

My 12PM felt warm first 2 nights of charging. Afterwards no more issues. The optimized charging feature finally kicked in too.

It also activated on mine as well. Loving it.

 

[aesc80]

I've actually had 0 problems with the week and a half I've been using MagSafe. Maybe it gets warm overnight, but I've found by the next morning, my phone isn't hot at all. Nothing really stands out.

As for mid-day charging, I've found I never needed it. The battery life through an entire day (8 AM - 1 AM), my battery holds crazy well. So guess I'm just in the minority of people - I actually like my MagSafe charging.

 

[ericwn]

I've actually had 0 problems with the week and a half I've been using MagSafe. Maybe it gets warm overnight, but I've found by the next morning, my phone isn't hot at all. Nothing really stands out.

As for mid-day charging, I've found I never needed it. The battery life through an entire day (8 AM - 1 AM), my battery holds crazy well. So guess I'm just in the minority of people - I actually like my MagSafe charging.

The OP does not use a wireless charger.

 

[aesc80]

The OP does not use a wireless charger.

My mistake! lol. Guess I've been too used to people complaining about MagSafe.

 

[DiCaprioAngel]

When I first set up my 12 Pro Max it got warm as it was downloading all my app/app data, pictures, messages, downloading music, etc. But that is normal. I didn’t charge it until the next day at work after everything was done

 

[sjperformance]

It also activated on mine as well. Loving it.

Took longer on my 12PM versus last year on my 11PM to activate.

 

[GrandeLatte]

Yes. You're all right. It's probably busy doing something in the background.
After it got so hot. I stopped charging it. Restarted my iPhone, then start charging it again. The second time around, everything is normal.

I will give it a few days and observe.

So far I really love this phone! ???

 

[Tsepz]

Don’t be too alarmed, it will get warmer at some points while it is charging as it is Fast Charging, however the phone and battery are built to handle the heat and it will throttle down to manage the it as it goes.