iPhone 12 Pro Overheating

Haven’t seen much on this yet and was curious if anyone out there with either an iPhone 12 or 12 Pro is experiencing any overheating issues. I had major overheating problems while setting up the iPhone which isn’t too out of the norm. However the overheating issues have seemed to persist since getting the phone set up. The backup is fully restored so there shouldn’t be much background activity occurring. I’m also experiencing abysmal battery life as well, along side the drastic overheating. I do tend to favor 5G On over 5G Auto as I live in an area with a pretty expansive sub6 5G network. But either way the phone is still prone to overheat under minimal load. I also have been experiencing an occasional flicker on the screen which is something I haven’t seen on any apple oled panels before. Like I said I haven’t seen many forums or posts anywhere about this issue so thought I would reach out to the community and see if anyone is experiencing anything similar!

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Posted on Oct 24, 2020 1:20 PM

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Posted on Feb 7, 2021 2:25 AM

But only using one app for less than 15 minutes (e.g. reading the news) and the device overheating to the point that it’s too hot to touch is not normal. I have been told borh by the reaeller and Apple Support that this device needs to be repaired. I suggest everyone who experience inreasonable overheating woth their iPhone 12 Pro return it to be repaired or replaced. This is surely a manufacturing error, something’s wrong with a batch of devices.

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Nov 3, 2020 10:36 AM in response to scouser89lfc

Completely agree.

have the phone for less than a day and I feel I downgraded my 10X, battery is worse than my 80% max capacity on the 10, the new (old iPhone 5) design is surprisingly worse, and I was thrilled to see it is back, but practically it’s less comfortable in my hand and way way more slippery, and to top it with the fact the phone get overheat for no reason at times is enough for me to probably return it and get on older models for half the price.


giving it another day and

Nov 7, 2020 10:58 AM in response to dblggogs

Mine too. It gets overheated even by simply browsing sites. just recently, it makes a buzzing sound coming from internal phone while the sound was off at the same time. I tried to open a video in YouTube to check if sound can be generated from it... Unfortunately, no sound was generated even if it was full scale volume. What has happened, Apple?

Nov 7, 2020 10:03 PM in response to Margar88

Today it is heating up even with Wi-Fi.

When you are facing the screen the hottest point is in the middle to the left of the Apple logo?

Very strange.

Something is not right with this phone.

It is not a particular App use, charging it or 5G use although all have so far been reported to cause it to heat up in addition to others. I cannot understand it

We need Apple to make a statement and tell us what is going on?

Nov 9, 2020 6:53 AM in response to Margar88

I'm using the Magsafe charger with the Magsafe clear charging case. I've not felt the phone get hot while on the charger OR when plugged in. It does get awfully warm though when I'm playing a game (backgammon) or just looking at Facebook for longer than 6 or 7 minutes. Seems like yesterday the battery was going down really fast. Not so much today. Odd?

Nov 9, 2020 12:04 PM in response to dblggogs

Hello, I've had the same issue I'm not doing anything major, I was recording a video for top 3 minutes and the back was extremely hot. I cooled down after I stopped doing any activity. I don’t use a normal charger that I had from my previous iPhone. I have the iPhone 12pro.

Ive never had this issue with my older iPhone 8plus, would this problem go away? It is very uncomfortable and scary.

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