2020 Macbook Pro overheating

Sent the first one back. Replacement/exchange should arrive today. I’ll post any updates.

Correction: I did not realize the 8GB Ram version of the 512GB SSD 13' MacBook Pro only has one fan. Such a bummer, will consider trading up to the $1,799 version if it does keep overheating.

I'm currently using this application called Macs Fan Control, and I'm able to see live time temperatures from basically everything in my Mac that was a sensor.

I researched a bit, and turns out you can return a customised mac.

Several People have, you have 14 days to return it,

Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 you have 30 days to return faulty goods. 14 days is for unwanted goods.

I have the same issue. My 2020 13 inch Macbook Pro got hot the first day I took it out of the box and set it up. I've had three calls to Apple Support over my first three days of having it. They have had me try various permutations of restarts, but nothing they tried has worked to prevent the heating.

One representative also suggested taking it in to a repair place, but I didn't want to do this with a brand new laptop. I would take it to my local Apple store and return it, but they are still all closed down because of the pandemic.

Thanks for all the helpful replies. After the last update to Catalina 10.15.5 I did notice that it is not getting nearly as hot anymore. Before it would be very hot after printing a document, now it is just very warm near the ports. It does get very warm when I am doing a lot of work on it, but not hot.

As an aside, I have had trouble with my old Logitech bluetooth mouse with this laptop - throughout the day, the mouse cursor would randomly become a "wild mouse" cursor that's hard to position and control. I have an old Magic Mouse that had been "wild" with my old MacBook Pro, but it works really well with this new 2020 MacBook Pro.

I spoke too soon about the update 10.15.5 working. I was using my laptop later with 3 windows open - Keynote, WORD, and a screenshot - and my laptop got hot again. Also, tonight I was using it with Zoom and doing a share-screen, showing how to use Maps - and my laptop got hot again.

I am effectively on my third. First one overheating, fan running like crazy. Second one better but then the screen died and I could not get into anything at all (only 7 weeks old at the time). Do not know if that was connected. Forced to run it to an Apple Store during lockdown where they basically replaced everything except the keyboard. It is still running hot though, so I live in hourly expectation of another meltdown. Apple's standards are definitely slipping (including their customer service).

"Verify you are plugging the USBC charger into the right side of the Mac—"

I thought all four of the Thunderbolt 3 ports on the MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports) were identical? Are they not?

If they're not identical, which one of the four are you supposed to plug the supplied 61W USB-C Power Adapter cable into?

Yes, that's also true in my case. It's a MacBook Pro (16 Zoll, 2019) 2,4 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Yesterday i've to stop a zoom-Meeting because of the noisy van - it disturbs the whole meeting. For me, it seems that the Mac as System had problems. It's running into these thermic problems despite the fact, that the activity-Monitor tells it's just running more than 90% idle. If i would do some heavy load stuff - like rendering vids ...

Yes, it appears to be a problem with this model. Even if you switch it for another one, you are likely to encounter the same heat problem again. Someone mentioned above that Apple needs to investigate and resolve this issue; the PC environment is rapidly increasing in user-friendly devices and my hunch is many people will start switching brands.

Did you return it and exchange for a new one? I have the same problem with mine. I've only been using it for a couple days and it starts overheating very quick. I already try the SMC reset and it didn't help.

I have this same question also, I bought a 13' inch 512 GB SSD MacBook Pro and whenever I use Chrome the fans become outrageously loud to the point where I can still hear them even when using noise cancelling on my AirPods Pro, also to mention that the bottom also becomes very hot. Another thing to point out, is it normal for only the left fan to not work at times?