iPhone 12 pro max heating up

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My first 12 pro max only lasted a day because it was overheating like crazy. I thought it might have an issue like the old galaxy note batteries so I exchanged it the next day when the store opened up.

I didn’t have it on the charger, I wasn’t downloading/uploading anything, I wasn’t on 5G, I didn’t have multiple apps open. I was scrolling through an article on Safari for school with only text in it and after 5 minutes the middle to top part of the phone got extremely hot.

Don't worry if your phone gets what feels like hot to you; it will shut itself down if it gets too hot.

For the first 24-48 hours you set it up and after iOS releases the phone will use more battery than usual and will likely be warm as it resyncs itself with iCloud, if appropriate and rebuilds all the phone's internal databases so things like search work properly.

Im just using standard wireless charging. Mine is aleays hot. When i plug it in there is no heat

Yes! Just received mine today and it was hot on my ear after talking for just 5 min. What’s up with that?

I have the same issue, just bought it yesterday, normal use, this did not happened with my iphone 11 pro max. Any solutions apple??

I totally agree on this non sense. I have a 12 pro Max, the most premium phone apple offers and suffer from the heating issues too. It’s non sense and all we do is complain on this forum but apple won’t respond.

It doesnt matter whether im using data or wifi with me. Phone heats up really bad when charging wirelessly and i can feel the heat all the way throught my otterbox defender pro case. So that means that my phone is actually hotter to the touch if u were to take off my case. It would probably burn you

I have iPhone 12 Pro Max and I am also having same issue. My iPhone is heating up all the time. When I started using my phone after five minutes it’s start heating. I contacted apple support but no one understands. Is there anyone having same issue?

My new iPhone 12 Pro Max gets extremely hot while charging it. I just bought it and I’m using the Apple charger that came with the phone. With or without the new USB C cube it gets hot to the touch when charging

12pro-max getting heated up when I use it for browsing, and when I use it for surfing on safari , when I use it for camera using safari or when I open any app that using camera .

Any solution for this issues ?

Beside the heat, I am having my device powering off already couple of times.

Crazy, before when I was using iphone 8 plus didn’t have anything like that.

The question is I upgrade or I downgrade the device. I understand because of the pandemic it was hard , but better to make a new phone after a year but in good condition.

thank you

I hope is gonna be a fix or a way to change the phone for the next one at the end of the year for a very very reduced price .

I’m not sure you read my post, Dogcow. I mentioned I wasn’t downloading anything. As in not downloading any updates, or back up files.

I was on stock iOS14.2. I wasn’t around wifi the first day, so I hadn’t updated it. I only use mobile data when using it for school work because I want a constant connection.

I didn’t have a need to back up this phone with a previous phones files. I have everything I need on an external hard drive. I started fresh with this one.

Perhaps I should have made my statement more clear in my previous post.

You had a nice guess though.

I just received my IPhone 12 Max Pro. It has been adding my precious apps and such and it is hot af to the touch. Sure turning it off helps it to cool but why do I need to do that? My iPhone Xs Max never gets like that.

I’m not keeping this thing. Sending it back.

I have the same problem, what should I do?