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iPhone X iPhone X gets hot fast?
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Mine does definitely get warm a lot more often than any other iPhone I've had in the past.
I have had my new iPhone X for a couple weeks now. It never got hot in the beginning, but now it gets very hot especially after streaming a video! I mean it even startled me at first it was THAT hot & has been now for maybe 5 mins. I assume there aren’t any solid answers as to why this happens with these phones? Shoot maybe I’ll just go back to my 6S Plus Bc I don’t like how hot the X gets #iphoneXwantstoeXplode#annoying #iphone11willbehereintheNEARfuturetoreplacetheX!
People forget about the double stacked PCB... double the heat output people...
Mine is doing the same thing here. I just got my X 2 months ago and was fine for a month. Usually streaming my glassblowing on IG and overheats 1 out of 5 times. It is still warm when it does not shut down. I also have found that having screen brightness low and not having it in an otter box helps a bit.
I was streaming with my 6s previously with no problems ever. Hope they can patch it if that’s what it is. Have a great day. ❤️
I was streaming with my 6s previously with no problems ever. Hope they can patch it if that’s what it is. Have a great day. ❤️
It’s a pretty well documented aspect of the phone at this point - mentioned in most reviews. It’s not a defect as much as an undesirable trait. The 8 and 8 plus also get hotter than previous iPhones as well so maybe it’s the A11 kicking out more heat with the extra cores being active (even the A10 was in effect a dual core chip as only 2 cores would ever be active at once).
Using spotify has been warming mine up quite a bit lately i took a object thermometer and it read 95 degrees and climbing. Is this normal? Or what is going on?
did it climb to 98.6 F in you hand
I do every thing I can to keep my Desktop systems under 70 Deg C. ( CPU/GPU)
remember to calibrate your fingers before taking a temp reading
Probably in my hand. Wasn’t taking in to account hand head, will test tomorrow
95F probably normal, 95C I’d probably get that looked at, probably
According to the GSM arena review, the iPad 3 got to similar temperatures just under normal usage - pushed right up to 112F (44C) when playing games...
95F probably normal, 95C I’d probably get that looked at, probably
According to the GSM arena review, the iPad 3 got to similar temperatures just under normal usage - pushed right up to 112F (44C) when playing games...
So feeling a bit warm roughly 90-95 is normal? Just wanting to make sure
Sometimes I go to the park with the kid to play Pokemon Go. I use my X and she uses my SE. Any guesses as to which phone overheats and lags like crazy?
I know all the excuses. Processor, case, OLED, screen brightness, whatever. I dont play games on my phone enough to care but its just frustrating when you have old tech that works better than your shiny expensive new tech.
I know all the excuses. Processor, case, OLED, screen brightness, whatever. I dont play games on my phone enough to care but its just frustrating when you have old tech that works better than your shiny expensive new tech.
There is no excuse for a new iPhone to be doing this while my 6s was able to Instagram live all day long.
I just purchased the X. It got really hot in the store. Scott said because all the work it was doing. I was on their super fast wifi. Today It becomes exteremly hot. VERY, VERY, VERY hot. took it out of the case. I was running Google maps and iTunes only. I do not use "push" updates, rather "fetch" which requires wifi. It is going back.
Navigation apps tend to make the device warm since it’s actively tracking and providing route esp on high brightness. Sometimes, putting the device on low power mode may help minimize the heat a bit.
Mine gets really hot, especially if I'm charging it and using it with something like Waze. It gets so hot that the entire phone slows down to molasses until I cool it down. I assume some kind of thermal throttling is going on to protect the phone. I exchanged it, but the new one does it as well. My wife's iPhone 7 doesn't do this ever.
apple replaced my phone due to overheating. They used it in store and could see that it got really really hot (almost scolding) 15 minutes into a call. Happy with Apple's response top this.
Knowing the difference between Warm and Hot is the key. Keep in mind during the summer the air around your iPhone is hot too.
If your iPhone is warm to the touch and you’ve been Using FaceTime or playing a game that’s normal. It’s when your phone is constantly warm or hot too the touch when you really haven’t done anything intense it’s time to bring it to an Apple store
If your iPhone is warm to the touch and you’ve been Using FaceTime or playing a game that’s normal. It’s when your phone is constantly warm or hot too the touch when you really haven’t done anything intense it’s time to bring it to an Apple store