iPhone 15 overheating

The titanium construction of the new phones is also a better heat transfer agent, so it may indeed feel warmer than your past devices is, but that just means the chips are being kept cooler.

If it doesn't shut down as being over-temperature, it's not overheating.

It’s heating up!

Natural Titanium 15 Pro Max here 48hrs out of the box. The back of the unit felt hot after periods of non use and even hotter during everyday use (email/web/text). Took the dogs to the river today and my wife was capturing some video and remarked that the unit was too hot to hold after shooting three thirty second clips THEN the camera app alerted her that the phone was too hot and needed to cool down.

Apple did it again! It heats up ridiculously. While using or not. While charging it’s untouchable!!! Plus, battery is a joke!!! If they don’t fix this with an update, this is BY FAR THE WORST IPHONE EVER! And I get the new one every year. So i know my statement is solid!

Same thing here! Literally just navigating to this article with no other tabs open and no apps running in background, my 15 Pro Max is almost too hot to hold. And it’s not wrapped in a case or anything that’s trapping the heat. I seriously hope this can be resolved with a software update, otherwise I will need to trade in the phone.

This is exactly happening to my new iPhone 15 pro as well. It heats up so much that it’s difficult to hold it even when it’s inside apple silicone case. Without the case it’s even hotter to touch. I’m very surprised as to why this would happen for a normal phone call. Also my voice over setting is off, which was a comment above in the thread.

Apple & O2 have been shocking, spent an hour on the phone to Apple whilst on speaker phone as its too hot to hold the phone to your face and their advice was to send it back to them with a turnaround of approx 28 days without a phone, the O2 shop that I purchased the phone from had a similar response although theirs was based on availability of a like for like model coming in which is late October and would also leave me without a phone, end o end shocking after buying a premium product from a premium manufacturer from a premium store, during both calls which took approx 1 hour 20 mins the battery declined by over 50%

I have the iphone 15 plus and noticed this the first day. I can't even use it for 5 mins before it starts getting hot, it only cools down when i lock it and stop using it, it doesn't get hot when it charges. I spoke to apple support and they ran a diagnostic and said it was normal but to keep an eye out for it?? Idk hopefully something fixes it or idk if i should go to a genius bar

Hi, I was using my iphone 15 pro max since 22th of september, if initially i was thinking the heat problem may occurr due to the icloud restore process as around 87k pics/videos and other things were restored after 2 days i observed even in normal usage (no gaming at all) like whatsapp/imessage, outlook, teams, social media it started to heat very fast with and without a case. This is normal behaviour? My previous 13 pro max never had this problem and i was using it even at 37Celsius. Thank you!

The 3nm process suffered low yields of 55%. All chips have defects, a passing chip is basically arbitrary but the lower the bar the hotter the chip must get (due to power draw) to maintain performance. Initially, microprocessor experts can only explain the pervasive heat issue by pointing to defects. It’s the only thing that explains that the heat is 1)pervasive (ie caused by cpu) and 2)chip “yield” is now at 80 percent. It’s the same plant. You do the math. Apple did.

Just to be clear, competitors have had similar problems, android phones get very hot. I just want to dispel any idea that doing one thing the other will fix a hit phone. The chip quality has always had a bell curve of flops(math operations). It’s up to manufacturers of devices to cool and draw a quality line. Apple has always been the highest quality, hopefully tsmc and Apple will improve this. However, early benchmarks that really push the device show that heat causes aggressive throttling due to heat, actually making the phone perform at or worse than the iPhone 14 (these used an 4 nm tsmc process)after about 2 minutes.

Not just the Max my 15 Pro is hot. Reads 100f to 105f on the back. This is in resting state with email and 1 browser page open. Not much. I am reading to reduce the heat put the phone in airplane mode...?? Are so is this an iPad super mini?

I have the same issue and Apple support has not provided much guidance.

I’ve got 2 options and I can’t decide which option to pursue:

1. return it and revert back to my 12 Pro Max. Got 14 days I guess.
2. Wait for a software fix and/or Apple to acknowledge that there is an issue.

Any advice would be appreciated.

I noticed the same thing on my iPhone 15 Pro. Even by scrolling on SNS either the back of the phone and the screen get really hot. All apps closed, brighteness not even at the max, storage 70% full. I really don't know what to think about. I previously had an iPhone 11Pro and got this hot only when editing videos or playing games. This new iPhone 15 pro gets hot even just by looking at it..

My parents and I bought the 15 pro maxs. While my iPhone doesn't have this problem, my dad's iPhone overheated on charging to the point where the software stopped charging until the temperature went down. My mom has the same problem but not as much. They changed the charging bricks and it seems to be helping a little for heat.

Seeing the same with a regular 15 pro. 5 minutes of web browsing and its very hot. On idle sitting on my desk it remains warm all day by the volume buttons. Don't even have a case on it still and simple usage causes heat in a cold room. Probably going to need to return 😬