iPhone 15 Pro Overheating Concerns Highlighted in Two More Reports

[Urban Splash]

Presume it will burst into flames when playing ‘console’ games.

 

[Ethosik]

I think people are noticing it being hot more as it’s being discussed. This is NOT overheating. That causes physical damage to the phone or it shuts down

My 13 Pro gets insanely hot during a FaceTime call. 10 minutes in and I can’t hold my phone anymore it’s that hot. And it destroys my battery. I hate using FaceTime due to this. This isn’t new but of course new phone needs a new “gate”.

 

[coso]

Thankfully, no problems here yet on European 15PM (with nanosim slot, that someone say it can be a cause)

 

[Bradyy91]

Lack of / poor cellular signal can be a real battery killer. That’s not an iPhone 15 issue, just a general problem that all phones experience.

This isn't the case - at all. This has been tested with 2-5 bars of service as well as Wi-Fi calling. I really don't understand why everyone is trying to defend apple here. This issue has several reports on the forums.

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[sleven]

Similar experience here. Coming from a mini the 15 Pro isn't nearly as hot, specifically when wirelessly charging.

That is one thing that always concerns me with the 13 mini. When I wirelessly charge, I intentionally point a desk fan at the phone and qi or MagSafe battery pack.

 

[chrono1081]

Anecdotal complaints and guesses as to what might be the problem is what passes for journalism these days. Sad. Well here’s another anecdote: I own a 15 Pro and have had zero issues, no overheating, it barely gets warm.

Same. The only time it does get warm is whenever I'm using Tumblrs unoptimized garbage of an app (which my 14 Pro Max got warm with as well). I know it's just the ****** app because it also destroys my battery life. Other apps are no issue.

 

[spaxxedout]

17.1 fixes it on 15pm.

 

[poorcody]

Not seeing it at all on my 15pm.

Took the phone kayaking yesterday, had the GPS tracking running constantly for almost five hours, even took a FaceTime call simulatemously for about 10 minutes. No heat at all. And the phone was in a waterproof case with the sun glaring down on it.

I wonder if some background app is going nuts for some people and not others...

 

[JosephAW]

You'd think they would have gotten it right after iPhone 14 Pro heat issues

 

[doolar]

I've noticed that my 15 PM gets a lot warmer than my outgoing 13 Pro while on a phone call. I do not use a case, nor do I have Instagram or any other social network apps on my phone.

 

[decypher44]

Let’s stop using the term overheating. That implies the devices shut off due to excessive heat. Also, I have been to websites filled with ads and my 13 Pro got way too hot to the touch.

Idk. I see it differently. Like, when you hear that someone “OD’d”, it’s more often than not that you would think the person died. In fact, it means a person literally overdosed, and not that death has occurred.

Overheating can mean getting hotter than it’s supposed to, but not always to the point of “death”.

 

[djinn]

I have a 15 pro max, 512gb, natural titanium, and I use without a case.

I’ve had it since launch day. It’s done indexing, etc.

My phone gets extremely hot when:
- updating apps in App Store
- using podcasts app
- charging with apple chargers and cables (both wireless and usbc)
- I was using safari last night trying to book a car and got the hottest I’ve ever felt. Had to close safari and heat dissipated. Wasn’t able to reproduce.


Gets noticeably hot during:
- normal phone call

Haven’t tried:
- FaceTime
- IG

I’m strongly considering returning it.

Was all your data transferring on cell or wifi?

 

[Lvmyiphone]

17.1 fixes it on 15pm.

How do you know

 

[nvmls]

I called Apple support to ask about why my 15 pro max vibration doesn't work in silent mode for text messages and my 14PM worked just fine with vibration in silent mode.... they have No answers yet supposedly someone else had the problem as well....

No answers as if they didn't suggest to "buy a new one" either?

 

[nikhsub1]

Non issue. If yours is getting too hot you’re holding it wrong.

 

[Jay3197]

I called Apple support to ask about why my 15 pro max vibration doesn't work in silent mode for text messages and my 14PM worked just fine with vibration in silent mode.... they have No answers yet supposedly someone else had the problem as well....

I also have this issue, checking settings> haptic and setting it to always on does not fix the issue. Text messages wont vibrate at all on the phone, only on my watch while in silent mode.

 

[surfzen21]

I called Apple support to ask about why my 15 pro max vibration doesn't work in silent mode for text messages and my 14PM worked just fine with vibration in silent mode.... they have No answers yet supposedly someone else had the problem as well....

Interesting.

Did you go through the settings at all?

I ask because I'm on a iPhone 11 until my, delayed in shipping, arrives and I noticed that since I upgraded to iOS17 on my 11 I have a lot more haptic feedback in places I never did before. Maybe something got switched on or off in your case.

I always leave my phone on silent.

 

[ikramerica]

Step 1, pull the pin.
Step 2, count to three.
Step 3, throw phone at enemy and duck.

(I am not sure why you would want to throw an iPhone at a duck.)

Why does the enemy even have a duck?

 

[oneMadRssn]

Although it got warm during setup and maybe for the first day afterwards while it was indexing and downloading messages and all that, my 15 Pro Max is now operating at normal temperature. No overheating issues here and it is a great phone.

Same. I'm planning to get it anyway, but AppleCare+ sounds like a must-have for this model.

 

[8CoreWhore]

<<The thermal conductivity of aluminum is about 237 W/(m·K), while the thermal conductivity of titanium is about 15.24 W/(m·K). This means that aluminum conducts heat almost 16 times better than titanium.>>

 

[alien3dx]

I don't buy into "overheating" hysteria. 99% of the time people conflate "getting warm" to "overheating" because they don't understand that chips get warm when doing things and what sounds hot to a human isn't hot to a computer chip.

If it's truly overheating, the screen will dim, the device will stutter, and eventually shut off. That's overheating.

We stop using 7 till it crazy and warning all the time. Now my xr be have like this sometimes . You may stay in cold weather country but some of us not. ME , still keping asking myself , 14 or 15 .. Most android of mine , don’t have specific heat problem

 

[Ethosik]

Idk. I see it differently. Like, when you hear that someone “OD’d”, it’s more often than not that you would think the person died. In fact, it means a person literally overdosed, and not that death has occurred.

Overheating can mean getting hotter than it’s supposed to, but not always to the point of “death”.

Shutting off a device doesn’t mean death. Modern (not so modern really) processors and SOC will shut down for protection. Similar if someone OD, they probably have a major side effect and are in the hospital. Not meaning death either.

 

[poematik13]

every year the media has to make up a “-gate” to keep the iphone news cycle and engagement, ad metrics etc going post-launch. really sad and pathetic little industry

 

[Juraj22]

Phone will heat up when:
-fast charging (a shocker )
-using CPU+GPU+NPU at once (games usually)
-display at full brightness generate a lot of heat as well
-camera module when used for video recording
-user is in low signal spot, so phone have to use stronger radiation to get signal to the tower for phone call or data transfer, radio waves will heat up your phone and head as well.

None of this is special to iPhone 15Pro.

Apple does have thermal control over device, so fast charging is not so fast anymore when battery is too hot. CPU is slowing down when it is too hot.
When device reach critical levels of heat, it will shutdown.
Apple can easily adjust devices thermals via SW update, but I don't think they need to.

it is pretty simple to overheat any phone when temperature outside is over 35 degrees celsia (95F). Just play a game outside in sunny day with max brightness.

This overheating "gate" is with all iPhone releases I remember, just google for "iPhone 14Pro overheating" or 12Pro ...etc. Basically every iPhone released in last 5 years were overheating. Don't buy iPhones.

 

[ikramerica]

Overheating: make or become too hot; a mechanism becoming overly hot to the point of shutting down or failing

Haven’t read anything about overheating. Warmer than expected? Maybe for some.