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iPhone 15 Pro Overheating Concerns Highlighted in Two More Reports

My iPhone 15 Pro 256GB just got scorching hot for no reason. I was just doing some things in Settings. Crazy hot. This is the first time this has happened since getting my phone on the 23rd. There IS a problem. Definitely. Just wonder if its hardware or software.
 
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For what it's worth, here's my experience:

Received my 15 Pro Max on 9/25. It was warm the first day while it restored all of my data. I don't play games, but I did do a stress test benchmark next to my S23+ and both got equally hot to the touch. The S23+ did slightly better on the 3DMark stress test, as it didn't seem to be throttling as much. During normal use, I haven't felt it heat up, but I do use a Spiegen case.

What I have noticed, though, is the battery draining faster. This phone drops to 96% pretty early in the day, where my 14 Pro Max (after a year of use and still 100% battery health) would still be at 100%. I'm not sure if this is a change in the way they calculate the battery percentage now, or if it's actually draining faster with my use. I have seen the battery tests that show the 15 Pro Max beating everything else.
 
bigjnyc said:
Have not experienced this yet on the 15PM.... maybe during setup it got a little warm. But other than that its been cool to the touch. However I have not put the phone on any wireless charger yet as I am trying something out... Since I only charge overnight I am using a low watt charger and a usb A to usb C cable to slow charge my phone.... I want to see if this helps preserve the battery health... It's just an experiment and of course if I need fast charging in a pinch I will use it... but on a daily basis I charge the phone slowly overnight so I figured why not.
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This is how I charge my 14 PM, slow charge, either every night or every other night depending on usage (I can sometimes go two days on a single charge) and my 14 PM still shows 100% battery. There have been times where I used a fast charger, but it is rare, 99% of the time it is the slower charger.
 
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sziehr said:
Agreed, but when apple refuses to comment, and you have a lot of unhappy folks this is what will happen, what we need is apple to trot out Craig on the software front and go look I hear you, I am on this, and I have my entire teams on this till we find and fix this. If this is a chip issues we need the head of chips to come out and go we may have a bad batch we know who you are and where you are and we will notify you to do an swap we are sorry. The end, but if they are not prepared to come to a statement of even hey we hear you we are digging deep, then well the WSJ and the likes are publishing what they see online. The mob is not always right, and it is not always wrong. I will say MKBHD absence of posting his review video and we are this far into the game, one has to wonder did he find an issue and is trying to get apple to actually comment on the record on what the hell is going on.....
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Comment on what? Random people claiming it gets hot?
 
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Jay3197 said:
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.
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Are you sure your phone vibrated on silent when you received a message when you had your watch on?

Mine never did. The message got pushed to my watch, which is how its supposed to work.

I just did a test. Send a message to my phone with watch on. My watch vibrated and my phone did nothing.

I redid the test with my watch off any my phone vibrated in silent mode like it always has.
 
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I've mentioned this in a couple of threads already, but I'll also add it here as I know there are some people mentioning there being an issue purely because of how hot their device got when setting it up.

I recently set up an iPhone 12 Pro (on iOS 17) as a temporary device while I was waiting for my iPhone 15 Pro to be delivered. During the first hour, I noticed the temperature warning multiple times. I also remember my iPhone 14 Pro getting pretty hot this time last year when I set that up fresh, too. The iPhone 12 Pro was the only one I've ever seen a warning on.

I know this doesn't explain why some people have issues making calls and in other situations, and that's not why I'm sharing this, but I've just seen a lot of people panicking because their iPhone got hot during setup. My iPhone 15 Pro was also pretty hot during setup (as a new device), but it's been totally fine since then.
 
Beelzbub said:
This is how I charge my 14 PM, slow charge, either every night or every other night depending on usage (I can sometimes go two days on a single charge) and my 14 PM still shows 100% battery. There have been times where I used a fast charger, but it is rare, 99% of the time it is the slower charger.
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My launch day iPhone 14 Pro dropped from 100% to 99% capacity about 4 weeks ago. Last week, I sold it to a company (that wanted it to have at least 80% capacity) for ~70% what I paid for it last year. For context, and none of this is directed towards you and your experience, I lived in a hot country for a lot of this year, and I charged the iPhone overnight almost every night on the MagSafe charger of a Belkin BoostCharge Pro charger. I barely ever used a cable, and it was used often with wireless CarPlay. Needless to say, I didn't really go out of my way to look after it, yet it was still on 100% at around the 11-month period. I didn't put it on charge when it was almost full, though, and it rarely ever got very low. My wife charged her launch day iPhone 14 Pro the same way, and it has 98% capacity now.
 
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johnediii said:
And the Lord spake, saying, ''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'
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Run away!
 
Hakiroto said:
I've mentioned this in a couple of threads already, but I'll also add it here as I know there are some people mentioning there being an issue purely because of how hot their device got when setting it up.

I recently set up an iPhone 12 Pro (on iOS 17) as a temporary device while I was waiting for my iPhone 15 Pro to be delivered. During the first hour, I noticed the temperature warning multiple times. I also remember my iPhone 14 Pro getting pretty hot this time last year when I set that up fresh, too. The iPhone 12 Pro was the only one I've ever seen a warning on.

I know this doesn't explain why some people have issues making calls and in other situations, and that's not why I'm sharing this, but I've just seen a lot of people panicking because their iPhone got hot during setup. My iPhone 15 Pro was also pretty hot during setup (as a new device), but it's been totally fine since then.
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I noticed some heat on the 12 pro when I set it up too but never got a warning.

Doesn’t apple know for the first 100 miles you are supposed to drive slower, not faster?
 
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Yep my 15pro gets really hot around the volume buttons, like uncomfortably so. It also gets very hot when magsafe charging.
 
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Shouldn't the titanium and aluminum internals of the 15Ps be better at transferring heat than the stainless steel of the X through14p?
 
surfzen21 said:
Interesting.

Did you go through the settings at all?

I ask because I'm on a iPhone 11 until my, delayed in shipping:mad:, 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.
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Someone on Reddit has issue, I tried everything you can think of, restore etc even had a friend try and help. Vibration on my 15 pro max like my 14pm did
 

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surfzen21 said:
Are you sure your phone vibrated on silent when you received a message when you had your watch on?

Mine never did. The message got pushed to my watch, which is how its supposed to work.

I just did a test. Send a message to my phone with watch on. My watch vibrated and my phone did nothing.

I redid the test with my watch off any my phone vibrated in silent move like it always has.
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Actually just did the same and you were right. When watch is on wrist it, phone wont vibrate but does if watch is off the wrist.

Guess this is something I’ve actually never noticed 😅
 
chrono1081 said:
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.
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99% of people think “the cloud” is some magical place in the sky vs just being other people’s computers.
 
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ikramerica said:
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.
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Has anyone actially had it shutdown yet? I know I saw people who got the Not Charging Warning
 
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I believe that the reason why the iPhone is getting hot is that some people have a large photo library and it’s rescanning the image data.
I’ve had that happen with prior brand new phones. But it stays cool after that unless I’m 3d gaming.
 
Interesting. My 15 Pro Max was hot when setting up, but has been cool ever since. Probably another overblown story. Happens every year.
 
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