MacBook Hot to Touch
My MacBook Pro has recently become hot to touch and the fan is constantly running and it seems the battery is not lasting.
MacBook Pro 13″, OS X 10.11
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Hello deena2494:
Perhaps there's some runaway processes, applications and/or third party utilities
or an unnecessary anti-virus app. Best to at least check by use of Activity Monitor
and as needed, shut those runaways down from Activity Monitor.
• Activity Monitor User Guide (( Table of Contents )) - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/toc
Anything important there should be available again on restart.
Symptoms of hyper active systems include malware, adware,
among other pesky things acquired through browsing; or use
of those anti-virus scans that run in background. The fake kind.
As with anything on Mac, be sure to have & use Backups.
To include those made by Time Machine on external USB.
Good luck & happy trails! ☺︎