numbness in left hand after holding phone

I get it in both hands. I even started propping up my phone (iphone 6 plus) but if I am typing or scrolling my fingers and hands tingle,burn and hurt. As soon as I remove my hands from proximity it stops.

I am glad to see it is not just me.

Mobile Radiation: "The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation" -- Dr Devra Davis - YouTube

I experience the same, and I've never had this experience from any other device. I've had experience with about 5 Android flagship devices, and the one I came from is the LG G4 which had a 0.72 W/kg of SAR. This iPhone 8 Plus is at 1.19 W/kg of SAR and I keep having a numb feeling no matter what. I actually feel like after prolonged exposure, that my thigh got heated out of it as well.

If it's not radiation (and I'm sure it's not heat) than clearly it is something we don't know about.

rbrylawski wrote:
Apple needs an IQ test for the next round. Anyone scoring below, oh say, 80 can't buy an iPhone. It would cut out about 85% of the senseless posts written here......

forumalias wrote:
Along with the same percentage of their customers no doubt. 🙂

Companies make electronic devices and market them as something any idiot can buy and use. The problem is many idiots do buy and try to use them leading to such things as idiot forum posts asking questions that "normal" people can easily figure out.

I wouldn't hope for a change in this any time soon (actually... ever). A large portion of electronic devices purchased these days are done by people who will eventually have a dumb question to ask about it.

Dave

EBSkater wrote:

Also, @forumalias, I agree, but a lot of the posts are also from those who are too lazy to actually utilize Google. I love how they'll set up an account here, confirm their email, then post their question, when searching Google would be immensely FASTER...

It's obvious with the numbness in the left hand that holds the phone that it's the way the hand is being used. I don't have the problem when using my hand any other way and it happens with and without cellular or wifi on or off. The human hand was not designed to hold such a device by nature so maybe the only recourse is use the phone a little less. If it wasn't so darn addictive, I would put mine down too.
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stephen714 wrote:

It's obvious with the numbness in the left hand that holds the phone that it's the way the hand is being used. I don't have the problem when using my hand any other way and it happens with and without cellular or wifi on or off. The human hand was not designed to hold such a device by nature so maybe the only recourse is use the phone a little less. If it wasn't so darn addictive, I would put mine down too.
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Or, you could use a headset.

Metamorphosis007 wrote:

I get it in both hands. I even started propping up my phone (iphone 6 plus) but if I am typing or scrolling my fingers and hands tingle,burn and hurt. As soon as I remove my hands from proximity it stops.

I am glad to see it is not just me.

What did your doctor say?

Actually yes. I noticed this and thought it was just my hand going numb from prolonged use. I don't have to use it long. I just have to hold it a certain way and that's with my hand near the charging port. It's the only time it happens. I try not to hold it that way but I'm used to it so it does happen from time to time.

KiltedTim wrote:

bolcar991 wrote:

I do have numbness and hurt like burning on my thumb. Very interesting . Im very sure it's my iphone radiation.

No. It's not. Go talk to your doctor.

I really wish people would, at the very least, look up "radiation" in the dictionary before writing stuff like this.

leventbae wrote:

If it's not radiation (and I'm sure it's not heat) than clearly it is something we don't know about.

You may not understand science but a lot of other people do. However, Devra Davis isn't one of them.