iPhone 15 Pro overheating

Neghila wrote:

I'm setting up my 15 Pro iphone now- charging with the cable that came with it- and it's too fricking hot to handle.

If you are setting up a brand new phone and it is too hot to handle, you should return it immediately and get a different one. There's something wrong with your particular device.

I've been reading several things about this over heating issue. 1 Apps are not working well with ios 17 yet.

2 Ios 17 has bugs that Apple is working on fixing. 3 Location services uses up 38 percent of battery.

I am no savy teck but this is what I have researched this past week.

Today I installed Google Photos on my 15 Pro and not long after suddenly my phone started heating up for no reason. I wasn't even using it.

So I uninstalled the Google Photos app and the phone quickly cooled back down and is running normal again.

I thought I would share this for knowlege purposes.

I will reinstall the app again and see if this happens again.

you could return it and get the same model again maybe not all iPhones are affected..., mine seems just fine

I bought my iPhone 15 Pro Max, and when i first charged it, It did get a little warmish to the touch but not HOT as people say it is, Now this only happens if the battery is really low than it'll start to get warm while using a much higher amperage load on the charger to pull the battery percentage up more faster, now when it gets around 70% to 80% charge i do notice that the heat will slowly go away after it reaches between 70% and 80%.

I also went to the Genius Bar. Was told my phone diagnostics are all normal and all my settings were right so nothing else they could do. They told me to buy apple care + then to contact them to have them replace my iPhone. Am awaiting a replaced (refurbished) iPhone after spending a lot of $ for the apple care +. Fingers crossed the phone coming will not have similar overheating issues. What a bad policy to charge customers more $ to fix a problem that should not have been there in the first place.

Hi

You have serious Problem with your phone and you have to look what apps drain the Battery.So i recommend you after Fully charge your phone put it on low power mode and look if it's fix or not.

If the problem is fix this let you understand the draining battery is cause by a apps running on background.

Step by step you can fix your problem.

Hope it's donna help

Apple had the audacity to call me back after an hour and a half of discussing to tell me that this was normal. (obviously did not accept that answer and had them schedule me to have it checked out at Apple Store) I have a brand new one day old from December 7 iPhone 15 Pro 256 GB. (On iOS 17.1.2) Phone gets piping hot when plugged into Apple OEM cable charger. Seems to be fine with wireless charge. This is bad.

I recommend returning the phone. We need to contact apple headquarters about this. I’m taking my phone back to the store. I was told they going send it out again to investigate the issue. I’m telling them I’m not the only one having this issue. They told me let’s worry about your phone.

I am having the same issue , it seems like the only time my phone heats up. Whenever I’m browsing especially from a link that’s open the browser. For example I saw an article on twitter and clicked the link. Then became really hot on the left side where the volume button is. It’s quite warm to the touch. It makes me think this is software related. Maybe the processes are running at a higher frequency than they should. Oh the OS panics. In any event they need to fix these issues.

Yes, of course it gets hot. 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. 

Did you check and update the apps regularly? Because mine updated like the same app 3 times or more during a week

Hi

Your suggestion is very helpful and i disabled at the same time the background app refresh.

Since yesterday the phone stop overheating on charging mode

Thanks

תבטל דחוף קניתי השבוע את ה15 pro והוא מתחמם גם כשהוא לא בשימוש והסוללה נגמרת ממאה לאפס תוך עשר דקות זה נורא תעשה לעצמך טובה ותבטל

I just purchased this 15 pro yesterday and did the update to the newest 17.0.3 and it got really hot this morning just going through emails…. This isn’t good and I’m tempted to go back to my 14 pro max even with this version it didn’t get hot at all