Iphone 13 pro overheating

I have noticed for past week my iPhone 13 pro overheats as well and not during charging, just regular scrolling through Fb or some activity at amazon or eBay. top half portion gets extremely hot and becomes uncomfortable to even hold the phone. should I stop by at apple location for them to have a look at it? its not getting any better

After setting up my phone yesterday, today is the first day that I am using it. It’s been less than 15 minutes and my iPhone 13 Pro is overheating at the upper half of the phone. It’s not warm; it’s hot to touch, where it’s uncomfortable and noticeable an unusual temperature for any phone. I only used my phone for Google GPS for a drive that is 11 minutes and it’s overheating. My iPhone XS never had this issue. FYI, there were no other running apps while using my phone. Is this a defective model on Apples part? Thinking of returning my phone today. 🚩🚩🚩

My phone is having the same issue. I got it the first day it came out. It has been glitching and slow. It just keeps getting worse and overheating. It also turned off at 44% and would not turn back on until I plugged it in.

I haven’t had such severe issues with an Apple phone in years. Very disappointed. I’m literally on a call for work while writing this, and my phone is burning up. Should not be happening.

Hello,

my iPhone 13 pro max arrived this morning and i had set it up but now 8 hours later the phone seems to be over heating. I’ve been through your checklist but everything seems to be okay. The phone was using light media (Spotify) and it started to get really hot despite nothing downloading or any heavy use, soon after, the battery percentage started dropping fast (87% to 80 in a matter of 3-4 minutes) which was strange. I received the delayed batch of iPhone 13 pro max’s and think something might be wrong with this one.

So I got my iphone for Christmas. It is two days old. I charged it and the phone was 125 degrees seven hours later after just sitting when I went to sleep. I woke up and couldn't touch it cause it was so hot. The pohone also won't turn on or force a turn on. I have an apt. with apple today. I am soooo disappointed to read this problem is happening to everyone. I don't know if I should return it or what. 2 days old and the phone is broken from overheating itself. Apple Support said it is a hardware issues. I want a new phone, not a refurbished one after TWO DAYS.

I want to add to this trend. My iPhone has been working well until yesterday. The only difference from a normal day is that I made several videos from the Reface App and drained the battery to 17% which is unusual because the battery lasts all day easily most days. I had the latest Apple update patch to load in the evening and charged it to above 20% in order to install. That's when I noticed the phone getting warmer than usual. Thought it weird. Put in low power mode and drove 1/2 hour to movies charging in the car. During the movie I felt my pocket burning hot, took the phone out and it was HOT. Had the temp warning I shut it down completely, took it out of the case that thing was roasting. It did not cool down, even when switched off untill I left the 2 hour movie. Plugged in the car it was dead. Stressed because this thing is new I plugged in at home and saw the dead battery plug in symbol appear. Woke up this morning and appears to be running alright right now. I don't know if any of this rambling helps but it DOES happen and all these comments on here I believe are real. My thought is that when this device goes below 20 % something happens with the charging process. I understand it may get "warmer" but this thing got HOT. I'm in Michigan it's 12 deg it's not hot anywhere to make this thing overheat like that. I'm just glad it didn't die on me. Is anything built to last anymore????

I also got iPhone 13 pro last week. This phone heats up on the upper back when browsing. I had iPhone 8 Plus previously and I never felt like overheating as I feel in it.

It looks like the heating is due to the processing which is really not good as expected.

You won’t hurt the battery, but your attempts to micromanage charging won’t help it either. Apples built in battery management will do a better job than what you are doing, and will be more convenient because it will let you enjoy the phone and not worry about the battery.

The absolute best way to get maximum use on a charge, as well as slow the decline of battery capacity long term is to enable Optimized Battery Charging (Settings/Battery/Battery Health) and charge the device overnight, every night. The battery will fast charge to 80%, then pause. During the nighttime pause the phone will use mains power instead of battery power, allowing the battery to “rest”, and thus reducing the need to charge the battery quite as often. The phone will resume charging to reach 100% when you are ready to use your phone; it will “learn” your usage pattern. If you enable iCloud Backup (Settings/[your name]/iCloud - iCloud Backup) the phone will back up overnight also, assuring that you can never lose more than the current day’s updates.

The phone monitors its temperature continuously, and iIt will shut down if it gets too hot. So if it doesn’t shut down then the warmth you feel won’t hurt it. It gets hot because interactive gaming uses a lot of energy in the graphics processor.

No, you can’t really hurt the battery with any charging routine that works for you. The only thing that can hurt the battery is letting it go to zero and shutting off, then not charging it within a day or so. But the best practice is to charge overnight, every night, with optimized charging enabled. This will extend the life of the battery better than any other routine.

I bought my iPhone 13 pro max a month ago, I switched from Android to Apple because my Android was full of viruses and I was told Apple didn’t get viruses so that is why I switched! I was really happy with my new Apple iPhone until about a month in and it started over heating pretty bad so I called Apple support and told them my issue and they immediately overnighted me a new phone, the exact phone! I got it today and moved everything over to my new phone and mailed that one back and guess what? Same **** issue with this phone!! I haven’t had it 2 hours yet!! I will be taking this one back to AT&T on Monday when I get back from vacation!!! I think I’m going to try a different phone!!!!

I thought I was the only one! I used to have the iPhone 11 and never had such issues with the battery. And I used my iPhone 11 just as much if not more than my 13 Pro. Something very strange is going on here. I just bought the 13 Pro. Battery will get hot randomly just after casual use of the device (not even streaming or listening to music). Then 5 mins later it will become normal temperature. Second scenario is where I am charging the battery on a wireless charger. It will get really hot after 80%. I even tried turning off the Optimized Battery Charging option.

I suspect part of the problem is that the devices are getting more powerful from a processing perspective, thus requiring more energy. Maybe the batteries are not able to keep up.

kamrun128 wrote:

Hi, is it sorted for you? Im having the same issue, after few mins of fb browsing or looking at any live video for just a few mins the upper part has become hot.

That is normal, unless the phone shuts down and displays a message saying the phone needs to cool down. Anything using energy generates wasted heat. It’s the 2nd law of thermodynamics. If you are browsing using mobile data, especially if it is 5G, and watching a video at the same time or downloading content that requires a lot of energy, and thus produces a lot of heat.

I was having the same problem with the Calendar app until I turned off the fetch and push notifications to manual only; sounds like the Mint app might be doing something similar because my Calendar app was working constantly in the background enough to kill my battery after a few hours when normally I get a full day's charge while using as a hotspot plus it doesn't get hot from using as a hotspot either.

I have had this same issue. I narrowed it down to the the camera and photos. It became so hot once that it went black, which was inconvenient when I needed it for a train ticket. If I take a picture, I try to do it quickly and then I need to completely close the camera app rather than leaving it open in the background. I do not get to spend time trying to get a great shot. I travel a lot, so this is very irritating to have to reopen the camera for every single photo. Even then, if I take a video, I need to make sure I have time to turn off my phone for a while when I'm done. Scrolling through photos or leaving that app open in the background can do the same, though not as quickly as the camera.