Same here. Actually my 12 Pro would always get really warm when running wireless CarPlay and my 15 Pro doesn’t at all.
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iPhone 15 Pro Max Thermalgate (yup, it's happening): Pics of how you're coping
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My phone never gets hot. It barely gets lukewarm even when I'm playing high end 3D games for an hour or more. Having said that, some of my friends' phones can double as portable stoves for cooking food on the go while doing very mundane tasks. Sometimes they'll get hot doing nothing at all. It seems this issue is either good or extraordinarily bad with nothing in between.
My iPhone 15 PM gets really hot (LHS Frame Upper Half) while taking snaps with native Camera App and keeping Photos App open. Closing Camera and Photos Apps by swiping up, starts to cool it. Seems the new imaging pipeline is not optimized, or may be with the case it is not able to dissipate heat. I can even feel the heat over the Spigen Case on the LHS frame.
I had Good Morning America on this morning. I never watch these shows but turned on the TV and that’s the channel it was on. They were talking about iPhones overheating and Apple’s forthcoming fix. This was in the first 15 minutes of the show. Since I never watch these shows I don’t know if this is common or if it means this story is getting a lot more attention than we think.
My cynical side thinks iPhone 15 news during the first segment probably means there is another more important news story that got bumped.
Lou does an extensive test on heating on various models. You be the judge:
Been reading through this and even though I decided to skip the 15 series (keeping my 14 pm) I kinda get a little irritated Reading some of these threads.
I will agree that for the price people pay they have a right to be concerned. Shouldn’t have to worry about how much you use the phone or what you do with it. It should work for all that it’s designed to do. It’s supposed to be used not babied or put in a glass display case to stare at. So it bugs me that users are told to “stop doing..” and fill in the appropriate blank. the phone needs to work properly. i Would be upset too if I just bought a phone and had issues the first week!
with that said I do think it a bit frivolous to trade in a perfect 14 pro max for the 15 pro max. I see plenty Of people regretting trading a perfect phone in for the “latest and greatest “ just to all of a sudden have issues. I stopped the yearly upgrade thing a while ago nit just doesn’t seem worth it. Cost wise PLUS the hassle of when things ending up going sideways. I work for a major carrier and it’s just.. I can see through the sales pitches. It’s just not worth it. To me anyway. Others.. well that’s their prerogative
So my iP15Pro was getting hot to the touch when I charged it. I don’t have instagram or many other social media apps on my phone, other than Facebook.
What I did was go into setting and turn the battery optimization off and allow my phone to charge to 100% instead of 80%.
My phone has charged to 100% and has not even gotten nowhere near hot as it did before I switched that setting.
What I did was go into setting and turn the battery optimization off and allow my phone to charge to 100% instead of 80%.
My phone has charged to 100% and has not even gotten nowhere near hot as it did before I switched that setting.
My 15 pro hasn’t even gotten slightly warm regardless of what I’m doing with it. My guess is that people experiencing it are suffering from the buggy Instagram update or one of those other poorly developed apps.. I haven’t put them on my phone yet
Also might be the case you’re using.. some thick cases probably don’t allow the phone to disperse heat properly. Other causes could be defective chargers or the transfer of a large amount of data from old phone which takes time to process.
Also might be the case you’re using.. some thick cases probably don’t allow the phone to disperse heat properly. Other causes could be defective chargers or the transfer of a large amount of data from old phone which takes time to process.
The judge of what? Did you watch the video?
He found there was no significant difference between any of the iPhones.
Apple Says iPhone 15 Pro's Titanium Frame Does Not Contribute to Overheating Issue
Apple today said it plans to release an iOS 17 software update with a bug fix for the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max overheating issue, and the...www.macrumors.com
What make you think that Kuo guy has better idea than Apple about the subject?
As someone else than the person you talked to I might make an important remark about your question:
The most important difference between Kuo and apple is:
Kuo is an independent perdon whilst apple and their hard-/software engineers are the ones that have a lot of interest to deny a failure of apple because THEY are obviously responsible…
And apple is well known to deny even the most evident catastrophic failures for years, until there is a court who is about to condemn them fir compensation…
Even “godfather” Steve Jobs denied everything… “you are holding it wrong!”
and so on…
So, for me apple’s claims are nothing worth since at least 25 years…
But I think Kuo is right…
Apple was quick to try and blame 3rd party apps and saying they are not optimized while their own apps do the same. This was quick release to buy time. This release does not seem to have fixed. Apple will do anything and take their chances to avoid any kind of confirmed hardware problem.
Source for the bold, please. Has there been any reports of the stock apps on the iPhone not being optimized? If so, please share them.
BL.
Just got this after taking a few videos and pictures, never got that on iOS 17.0.2.
So the stock apps are optimized and making FaceTime or standard call makes the device blazing hot for some? Just one example.
*important* lol
So you believe the guy because he’s independent from Apple? How’s that make him special?
Also, try asking him about the claim again, see if he makes any comment now.
Ming-Chi Kuo reaffirms tetraprism iPhone 16 Pro prediction, no comment on titanium heat claim - 9to5Mac
Apple extended optical zoom to 5x on the iPhone 15 Pro Max camera system thanks to an advanced tetraprism design....
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Good grief. So you can go from no problems to problems by updating the iOS that solves the problem you never had but have now?
That isn't what you asserted. You stated that those apps are NOT optimized. Please show that they are not.
My point is that you do not know if they are optimized or not, and guessing based on how hot a phone gets when they are in use is not any verifiable proof that they are. Apple has the proof that the 3rd party apps were unoptimized (simply by looking through the calls the apps were making and showing that they are not); you can't say the same about Apple's stock apps.
BL.
For the record I was charging it at the same time, forgot about that, only time it seems to get warm is when it’s charging.
Even stock apps are not optimized, I took some macro shots using stock Camera App in quick succession, opened stock Photos App, phone continued to remain warm in my pocket for good 2 hours. I closed Photos App by swiping up, and it cooled down in 5 mins.
Earlier during the day taking some normal snaps in direct sunlight, overly heated the phone, which subsequently cooled after I moved to an Air conditioned room.
