iPhone 12 Pro Overheating

Hello.

In my particular case, with overheating we are talking about nearly 40 Celsius measured with an Infrared Thermometer in the back of the iPhone.

I suspect more on software issues as I experienced something similar some years ago with an iPhone 8 Plus.

Naive question: how do you recognise the LiDar is working? Once I got upgraded to 14.2 and lost Face ID and had overheating and battery drain I recognised 2 cross hairs when taking photos to align in order to be perfectly in plane with teh subject. Now with upgrade to 14.3 this is gone. I am back to the usual square with the sun on the side.....

I just got the iphone 12 and after having every iphone since the 6, I never had this heating problem. Its hot all the time. I am worried about this and want to know if theres anything I can do? Terrible flaw.

Yes I’m experiencing overheating problem on my New IPhone 12 pro while on FaceTime my Phone starts to get hot and over heat . I don’t know why but Apple if you listen and watch please fix the issue because people paying money for a new product with better technology that should not experience on technology issues

yes my iPhone 12 is overheating too, since day one I bought and I belive the reason behind this is that: they using interior parts of old iPhones returned from other customers to make the newest iPhones and I’m very disappointed because my brand new phone having that issue even very often it glitches and freezing screen

naser29 wrote:

yes my iPhone 12 is overheating too, since day one I bought and I belive the reason behind this is that: they using interior parts of old iPhones returned from other customers to make the newest iPhones and I’m very disappointed because my brand new phone having that issue even very often it glitches and freezing screen

That's positively not the case. What proof might you have to make such a baseless claim?

First of all That’s so rude of you to jumb on conclusion like that like you are the owner of the apple store, then what’s your proof as you opposing??? So my proof is that you can return your old iPhone and get discount on your new one, the reason they take the old ones is because they use some parts of them to make new ones, one of them might be the battery

You come here claiming iPhone 12 is manufactured with used parts and you want to know what my credentials are? Give me a break. Apple is NOT manufacturing iPhones from used parts. And that's not why your phone may be getting warm. But I give you credit for offering a most implausible, but amusing reason.

Apple doesn't use parts of traded phones to make new phones, period. Traded phones get refurbished and used as service replacements or Out of Warranty replacements or even sold in the Refurbished Store, but NEVER as a new device. NEVER EVER.

Hi, I’ve not had overheating until today. With my iPhone 12.... Whilst video calling on what’s app on Christmas the phone got so hot... a cause for concern. I tried switching to 4/5G instead of WiFi and also checking apps were all off. Using battery saving mode. Hung up and tried again, it seemed to cool down again, but it’s still a concern to me having spent so much.

is this normal? I’ve jumped from a 7 to a 12 and never knew heated phones. To me this screams out flaws. Especially for this brand and the price attached

My I-phone 12 pro is 2 weeks old. today it became to hot to touch and used 40% of the battery in 5 minutes with the phone on standby in my pocket.

There was no open Apps running and it only has very light use, No games or music on it.

I turned it off and left it for half an hour to cool down and I am now waiting for it to charge up again.

What is wrong with it please ???

Thanks Mark

I’ve just come off a 15 minute chat with my friend & the front screen of my 12 pro that I’ve had 3 days, is really hot to the touch. I never had this with my 11. So I am under the conclusion that it’s overheating.

There are too many of us with the same issue for Apple to blame it on use / number of apps on in the background / battery charging etc. This is a design flaw / hardware issue! Apple MUST call all these phones back and replace them - otherwise they will end up catching fire on a flight like we've seen in the past. Also - its unacceptable that after a month of use, my phone (and many others here) has less life battery than my old Iphone 8 after 3 years of use. This is unaceptable for such an expensive and supposedly good quality product. Apple please REPLACE these phones.

Yes, I totally regret selling my 11 pro as it had no issues at all. And the battery was awesome too..

with this new 12 pro, the heating over very light usage and then the extreme battery drainage makes me hate Apple so much that I can’t explain. Didn’t expect a company like Apple launching such a faulty device in this era...

It’s just business to them...that’s what it seems

luddyann82

Thanks luddyann82.

I have tried replying to other people today to explain what apple have done for me today.

but they have doctored my reply saying it was negative!!!!

So i will see if they intercept this tame reply to you. Thanks Mark

Thanks, I know. But still, not everyone already has an old lightning charger at hand when they purchase the new iPhone 12 Pro. Also, when you buy online theres no information about the device package not containing a charger (it only has the USB-C /Lightning cable). The company that sold me the device were actually shocked when I called to complain about the lack if charger. At first they didn’t believe me and had to open a package to check it! The salesperson just exclaimed “Oh goodness! And I’ve sold hundreds of these already without knowing this!” You can only read this in small print on the packet when you have bought it and received the delivery and are about to open it. Or just notice it missing once you’ve opened the box.

I do have an old USB/Lightning charger, but I need my old charger for my other phone (which needs to be plugged in almost all the time, as the battery just goes from 100 % to 10 % in seconds if not plugged in. And it is a replaced Apple battery, so it should work fine - but it’s the model (6S) that can’t deal with the cold weather etc.

The main problem in the brand new 12 Pro is the overheating and the screen being dimmed due to that. I have no use for a defective device which is dimmed half or most of the time and too hot to touch. I can’t eg. work with images or have video meetings if I can’t see the screen properly. It also really hurts to hold the burning hot device for more than a few seconds.

I have checked all the settings and battery info etc. but I can’t find anything that would explain these problems.

Apple Support will call me later today, hope they can advice. But I am seriously considering returning this device as a defective one, unless it works like a charm after that phone call.

This is just very disappointing. I was really looking forward to using this device. And yes, the camera us amazing (but I can’t see the photos properly when the screen dims due to overheating...).