iPhone 12 Pro Overheating

Had my iPhone 12 pro for since oct 23. Everything was fine until today, experienced major overheating to the point that I had to turn the phone off and remove it from my pocket. Also insane battery drain and I haven’t even used the phone as I normally would.

I was going through the same thing where I was having to charge my phone 4hrs after use. My issue was notes was using 82% of my phones battery even with background app refresh off. My fix was reset to factory and setting up as new. Now phone doesn’t heat doing basic things and barely gets warm while charging. Hope this helps anyone!

Me too,

it heats up when using 5G, it keeps switching between 4G and 5G, I suppose depending on the coverage. When we are in 5G coverage it really heats up, with 4G not much so.

I am now using 5G for google maps, it has started heating up!

What is the problem? Has apple addressed the issue? Anybody aware of any communication from Apple?

Overheating was not an issue with my last iphone X

This is a new problem that Apple needs to address, because people are reporting different causes. For me it is when I use the 5G others reported charging others reported certain apps, it is confusing.

We wait and see what Apple is going to come up with?

My phone has been overheating for 3.5 days. It’s fever finally broke last night. LOL I did nothing different. I assume the issue will come back. Also noticed that it still hasn’t back up in 2 days, since my

last backup. Not sure what the holdup is. The other backups did fine, as I have reset it twice in the last 4 days. Also back camera doesn’t work, which is what started this whole mess I think. I started resetting my phone then the overheating got out of control. I hope they figure out this issue soon. Going to Apple this afternoon for my appointment and I’m kind of bummed that my phone no longer is overheating because I wanted them to feel how excessive it was.

Update - I've had my phone about a week and a half now, and I only experienced it running super hot once more after the first time. I did a hard restart, which stopped the heating issue. I also went into Background App Refresh and turn off a bunch of apps that didn't need it - it was enabled for a bunch of apps that it wasn't enabled for on my last phone, for some reason. Haven't had the same extremely hot issue since, although I've noticed during heavy use (like with GPS), the phone will get warm, within reason. Battery life is definitely less than my old iPhone 11, which is a known disappointment - I'm having to sit it on the charger earlier in the night than I had to previously. Hopefully this solves my overheating issue, or at least a temporary fix until a patch it out, if it's a software thing.

Hi!!! I have the same issue with my phone, it just arrived yesterday (Tuesday) and I noticed that when I'm charging it, it suddenly gets so hot although I've only charged 2x. I bought the adapter from Apple because I don't have a USB-C compatible one and I think it's causing it (it charged so quick too, 20% to a 100% in 20-30 mins) I unplugged my phone and switched to my old charger and my phone is back to normal temperature. I hope this works for you guys as well!!! :))

I've had my iphone for exactly one year. It's a 12. a month ago it started popping that it was in Overheating mode. So the nice little warning, the warning that you can only make emergency calls, the whole gambit.

I called Apple support and while I was talking to them I actually had to put the phone in my freezer while on hold to keep it from going into the overheating mode. There was surely an update that they did that caused the issue. Updated the phone again with the latest update and while I have not had an overheating issue since, the battery life (after only a year) is at 75%.

I bought an iPhone12 too. It heats up too quickly. Mine has additional issues, like sometimes it scrolls on itself, without me touching the screen. Does not backup in iCloud. Does not ring when I get messages/ calls.

I contacted the support guys, but no resolution. I am thinking of returning this phone.

Just completed the iPhone 12 setup and the experience is same. It’s overheating while setting up. I am thinking it’s coz of downloading the stuff.

i will check it tomorrow while using it. If problem persists, I will thin about returning it and will stay with my SX Max.

To all people claiming it's normal that the iphone 12 gets uncomfortable hot i have to say this. I own mobiles since forever. I owned Samsung's, Huawei's, Sony's, Nokia's, iphones and many other brands. But non of this mobiles get scorching hot while charging or surfing the net. May they get warm? Sure after longer gaming sessions or equal demanding tasks the mobiles could get warm. But never so hot that a warning was kicked out. The iphone 12 seems to get so hot it's uncomfortable to hold, that's uncool on many levels. The battery health will diminish over time with such high temperatures, surely the electronics inside the phone will also suffer over a longer period of time. So if you pay 1000 dollars + for a mobile one expects more! Each time your iphone 12 heats up tremendously, the lifespan of your battery decrease s rapidly. I saw this with my iphone X and iphone 11 pro max. Both of them lost battery health % after charging sessions who we're extremely hot. I stopped using the fast charger from apple, because each time i used it, i could basically watch the % of the health app drop rapidly. My iphone 11 pro max is one year old and it already lost 13% (87%) of it's capacity. My Sons iphone 11 pro max who never used fast charging is still at 96%. Hence i know for a fact that heat will kill your battery.

Have to agree.

It’s is clear as a day we pay more for less.

I don’t see any upgrade experience form my iPhone X, and no better camera isn’t worth new phone for $1400

the battery is draining faster before all the heat issues, Apple do claim it is good for 17 hours vs 18 on the 11 pro., so it’s def less.

on the 5G complete gimmick, doesn’t work well even when “connected” had to turn it off today so I can Los a video with the LTE.

so def don’t need that feature, not worth the extra heat and extra battery eating.

most people won’t need it at all.

today I used my car witless charging the phone got so hot to the point I couldn’t hold it, and the pgone was lagging on every action, like 1 second delay.

def sending it back and saving my money, will try to get a new 11 or even a Xs, will save money and get a better lasting phone.

what a shame on apple side, never in a million years I throughly I will return a phone to Apple abs get an older mode, yes it is that bad.

Same problems. Did diagnostic over the phone with apple, to have them tell me nothing is wrong. Made an appointment in the store to have them tell me nothing is wrong. 3 hour battery life with 5g off. If nothing is wrong, then it is terrible by design. Sent it back, i’m on my 4 year old 7pro again. I’ll keep using it until i try samsung. I’m doubtful about apple anymore, i feel like a sucker more and more with their products, and don’t care to participate in the diminutive behavior of their “geniuses”.

I haven’t noticed the phone becoming hot when charging, but I’ll now take note... I found this thread because I’m concerned at how hot the phone becomes after using it for less than 10 min. (iPhone 12 Pro-512G)

Update. So I spoke with Apple tech support again. I followed their recommendation of turning off some apps that I don't use, turn down brightness of screen and then turn off phone and restart after 1 min. I did exactly what they suggested and all seems to be working fine. I charge on a wireless charger at night and in the morning the phone is cool and charged. Battery is holding charge. Now this is all working on wireless connection. I now plan to use the 5G and see what happens........stay tuned.......