iPhone 14 Pro Max Overheating after iOS 17.0.2 Update

Possible solution: I shut off background app refresh, didn’t change anything. However, I noticed that the overheating and battery drain seemed to occur when I’m watching videos on the YouTube app. So, I uninstalled YouTube, shut the phone off, turned back on, then reinstalled YouTube app. The phone has stopped overheating and the battery usage has returned to normal, even while watching videos. I hope this helps others with the same issue. I was bumming thinking I was going to have to get a new phone.

I have an iPhone 14, 10 months old have been having multiple issues since updating to iOS 17, the latest is overheating even when not doing anything on my phone, particularly with charging, only ever use Apple cables.

Anyway. Mine is still under warranty so had a lengthly call with AppleCare, who ran analytics on my phone which still has 99% battery health, software up to date. It’s not a phone issue. I know it is the software after reading everyone’s issues.

Befrie even considering looking into it. I was told I have to use a computer. My Mac book. To restore my phone, then manually download my phone without downloading off iCloud 🤦🏽‍♀️ but also got told to use my phone without downloading anything at all. To see if I had downloaded bugs when updating to the newest iOS 17.2.1

Slightly reluctant to wipe my entire phone 😅 as there is always risks of loosing data, as since the update my contacts etc don’t all save to iCloud with alls settings correct I’ve lost as lot of them. The lady on the phone couldn’t understand the issues.

Claimed I must have downloaded a bug. Not owning up to the fact iOS 17 has caused major issues for customers worked wide yet they are still using it and haven’t fixed it. They said by restoring off a computer it will wipe the software off and redownloaded again not just reset the old software as it would if you reset to factory setting off your phone

anyway hope this may help you. Straight from Apple cares mouth

I think I may have found a solution. I decided to shut off the Background App Refresh which is located under the General tab, and down eight lines. After I did this, I plugged in my iPhone with the an Apple charger that came with my iPhone 14 Pro, and my iPhone stayed cool throughout the entire charging time.

I can’t say for sure that this helps everyone else, but I have been having the overheating issue and premature battery drain for a while now.

It’s been getting so hot that I try to charge for about 30 minutes at a time and then unplug the cable to let my phone cool off.

Well, I just tried something new. I turned off the BLUETOOTH IN MY SETTINGS. I reconnected the charging cable and instantly my phone has stopped getting hot.

This obviously isn’t a long term fix because something is obviously wrong for the Bluetooth to affect the phone heating up. But at least it’s not heating up while charging.

It is more likely than not that your iPhone(s) will have higher than normal processor usage as the software upgrades complete their background tasks. That will almost certainly lead to reduced battery charge duration and some temperature increase for a day or two. This is completely normal and I expect they will return to normal with cooler running within a short time.

Yes I’ve done that multiple times. I took off the instagram app and it cooled down pretty quick. Maybe like a lot of people have been saying, it has a lot to do with how instagram is reacting to iOS 17. I hope it’s just the instagram app cuz I am receiving my iPhone 15 Pro in a couple days.

I did a dfu restore, seem to fix it. Battery health hasn’t dropped any further. I rather suffer reinstalling all my apps again than having to replace my battery early next year

I finally had to reset my phone and treat as a new phone. That did the trick. The heating has stopped and battery not draining is not as significant. Battery health still 90% but working much better!

Of course this was the one year that I didn’t upgrade to the new iPhone….

SOLVE ....!

Here what I did:

-Reset and erase all contends from iPhone 14 Pro....(make sure DO NOT delete eSim that came with carrier phone)

-Activate the new phone and reinstall a backup that is the oldest backup from cloud (click on show more backup)

I think some update apps mess up with the phone......making it runs conflicting and drain battery faster and phone get hotter.

Hope that it's help...because it helped me.

Thanks

Did you try to update your apps and hard restart your iphone?

If it’s not very demanding I’d reset the iphone as new iphone without using any backup if still overheating having it checked at the Apple Store, surely it looks like IOS 17 related

Apart from updating the iphone to IOS 17.0.3, update all the apps, restart the iphone as a new iphone without using the backup, visiting an Apple store....pretty much it

My IPhone 14 Pro gets so hot that it stops charging. I tried everything. Just now I remove the wireless charging case and although still warm ish my phone is not burning hot. Success.

That’s quite interesting you should have a look at the thread iphone 15 overheating the one with more posts. I’d suggest you to check your apps to see if they have an update, and hard restart it maybe

I have this and hate it too. I played around with various apps, settings, and so far have found that shutting off wifi on the iphone entirely helps massively. Am terribly annoyed, but my phone heats up to the point I can’t hold it