iPhone 12 Pro Overheating

Ajax28 wrote:

Even after turning off the background app refresh for Waze, it was still running in the background. I deleted the app and my phone is running fine now. Check to see if there is an app using up battery life. This will also make the phone run hot as it is constantly on.

Worse than that, if Waze is on in the background it will constantly be asking Location Services for its location, increasing battery draw even more (and generating more heat.)

My thoughts on my iPhone 12 pro over heating was charging cable or the case, but bought myself a brand new anker nano and usb-c to lighting cable and charging this morning, admittedly for only a short while but it didn’t feel at all warm.

im thinking have i imported some setting when i moved across from iPhone 6s to the iPhone 12 Pro

Mine actually was overheating, I had the phone locked with hotspot on sharing the internet with another iPhone and the 12 pro recording while locked... and my phone turned off because of the overheating issue... I guess this was too much to handle for the 12 pro

Yes, I have been talking to Apple Support about my Iphone 12 Pro for the same thing. It gets really warm when it's charging, when I talk on it or browse. It does not hold a charge for very long either. I was told to have the battery checked but I really don't want to have problems with a new phone when you just purchased it. I have had it less than a week. I can't imagine what's going to happen as it gets older. I close all pages when I'm done and it still loses it charge. I'm frustrated already. Sigh!!

I’ve been having the same issue! I even get the temperature warning as if I’m on a hot beach and it says I need to wait for my phone to cool down before using. My battery has never charged so slowly or drained so quickly. I’m also experiencing storage full alerts when I wasn’t even close to filling my storage on my 11 so not sure if the photo files are just larger on the 12 or what. Definitely missing my 11 at this point.

I have only experienced my iPhone 12 pro getting very hot when charging. Using the cable that came with it and the power dock from my iPhone 11 Pro. I have not been using it while it is charging and still gets really hot.

I have experienced the same problem. I dont know if it is because the software is not perfect yet or if its a hardware problem. The main issue I have with the phones temperature rising is that the phones performance then lags extremely hard. I understand it is trying to slow down the internal processors from working too hard but like come on... this is a $1000+ phone and you would think it would be designed better for issues like this. I hope an iOS update comes out soon to address this matter. Or Apple needs to speak up and offer suggestions for us owners. BTW...This is an issue on or off the charger, not just when charging for anyone commenting. Any one have any other tips they came across?

I do have the same issue on my Iphone 12, but I use only LTE, because in the place where I live the 5G is unreachable.

My phone is getting a little bit warm on the left side of the screen(on the right side of the camera) and it drains fast enough (round 15-20% per 8 hours of sleep) while doing nothing, just idling. I got only wifi ON and mobile data, bluetooth Off, background refresh off, I use dark theme.

I didn't restored my phone from any backup and set it as a new iphone, so that is not the problem of an icloud syncing for sure.

I have already reset network setting, did the HARD RESET, that doesn't really helped me.

I now got 15% of my battery and 7 hours of screen time, but I'm pretty sure I could get much better results if I didn't lose 13% that night....

The only thing in a pocket I can do is to factory reset the phone, but I'm sure it is not going to help me, because my iphone was set up as new, with no backups etc... And nothing could went wrong.

Yup, received 12pro yesterday. Turned off 5G, but even without it on, phone is hot to the touch when just playing music in headphones with display off. Battery drains faster than any phone in recent history. I am very disappointed. If you use the lidar, you get about 15 minutes per charge. I was thinking it was a defective phone, but I see by other comments that it to be a feature.

Hey,

my understanding is that iOS 14 has some pretty hefty cataloging to do in order to fully implement the new search bars and siri. This work only happens when plugged in, and may be the cause of this overheating. Machine learning is very processor heavy.

So i have the 14.2 GM installed now. It seems to have fixed my hot phone and huge battery drain. I left it idle for hours after the update though (sleep). Right after installation the drain was still high but the battery drain is ok now.

Well that means it’s not an individual phone problem... :/

ok I looked up the inside of the phone online, looks like the hottest spot in my case is right at the A14 chip... it’s the main chip overheating

anyone knows if the 5G modem is in A14 or it’s another chip outside?

did you feel it the hottest right on the left a bit upper left? That’s the part that was really hot for me

So, I’ve had the 12 for about 5 days now. Battery life way better than expected unless doing multiple internet speed tests to determine if the discount carrier you bought from was lying about their internet speeds, ugh. My 12 heats up when charging, this is a new experience for me because I have always chosen Samsung and they rarely heat up at all. This year, I decided to give Apple a try because the 12 was so compelling. I hope I didn’t make a mistake, Android phones are awesome and will probably just use an old phone for that functionality. On the bright side, Apple software has some surprisingly cool features once you dive in

Welcome to the Apple fam! Just be sure not to cover your device with a cloth or bedsheet when charging, and the device will act as a heat synch as to not get too hot. We’ll see how this pans out, but in the meantime just take care to not charge where the device may get covered and store extra heat.

Same issue here.

Got the 12 pro today, set it up to transfer all data form my 10X, 15 minutes later playing with the Camera it is still really hot, to the point I had to put it down off my hand, went to check my 10X and it is cool as a pickle, definitely really bad start.

Wont be surprised if we get a recall at some point it this persists, overheating is not something to play with.