Why does my new iPhone 14 get so hot during charging and during use

Why does my new iPhone 14 get so hot during use and charging? I tried with the case off, it’s still very hot

Posted on Jul 18, 2023 1:38 PM

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Posted on Jul 18, 2023 1:41 PM

It's actually quite normal for an iPhone to get hot during charging, and even during use depending on what you are doing, such as playing games or using for a long period of time. The device has a sensor that gets triggered if it gets hot enough that it can harm you or cause issues with the device. If you haven't seen an alert saying it's overheating then it's completely normal


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Jul 18, 2023 1:41 PM in response to Licloo

It's actually quite normal for an iPhone to get hot during charging, and even during use depending on what you are doing, such as playing games or using for a long period of time. The device has a sensor that gets triggered if it gets hot enough that it can harm you or cause issues with the device. If you haven't seen an alert saying it's overheating then it's completely normal


Please see this article for further information:


If your iPhone or iPad gets too hot or too cold - Apple Support


Jul 18, 2023 1:44 PM in response to Licloo

It’s called the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Anything that creates or uses energy does so with some loss. That lost energy is expressed as heat. So when you charge the phone it generates heat in the power source, heat in the charger circuit in the phone, and heat as the energy goes into the battery. The faster the charging, the more heat is generated. Likewise when you discharge the battery; not all of the energy from the battery gets to the circuits that use it. Some of it becomes heat. 


If you use the cellular network for voice or data, converting energy to radio frequency signals is very wasteful; only about 30% of the energy that goes into the network components comes out as radio signals, the other 70% becomes heat. And signal strength matters; a 1 bar signal requires that the phone boost its transmitter power to maintain a connection, and it isn’t linear. 1 bar uses 10 times as much energy as 4 bars. You didn’t mention your phone model, but an iPhone 12 or newer (including SE 3rd edition) with a 5G signal uses about twice as much energy as an LTE signal, and 5G towers are still not as densely distributed as LTE, so the signal is likely to be weaker, compounding the problem.

Why does my new iPhone 14 get so hot during charging and during use

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