iPhone 15 Pro Max Heating

just bought it today. iPhone 15 pro max. Heating while downloading new data. Heating while charging. It will go back before 14 days if nothing changes and I’ll wait for the 16. I still have my 13 pro max. This is a shame.

iPhone 15 Pro Max

Posted on Feb 17, 2024 3:46 PM

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Posted on Feb 17, 2024 3:52 PM

Apple specifically said when you get a new iPhone 15 Pro model that for the first few days as it indexes the billions of bytes of data, it will run warmer than you may have experienced before. While its doing its normal housekeeping activities, you may be trying to do more things on the phone at the same time, so that will make it run even warmer. And when you charge an iPhone, the battery heats up naturally as that's what happens when you charge a battery.


Give it a few days. Don't push it hard while it's setting itself up for a couple days. Accept that your iPhone will get warm if you push battery intensive activities such as streaming video, playing video games, watching YouTube videos, etc.


Finally, getting warm and overheating are completely different. iPhone has circuitry built in to protect it against overheating. If your phone things it needs to cool down, you'll see a message on the screen with a thermometer, telling you the phone needs to cool down. If you are not seeing that, your phone isn't overheating.

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Feb 17, 2024 3:52 PM in response to ILogicPiano88

Apple specifically said when you get a new iPhone 15 Pro model that for the first few days as it indexes the billions of bytes of data, it will run warmer than you may have experienced before. While its doing its normal housekeeping activities, you may be trying to do more things on the phone at the same time, so that will make it run even warmer. And when you charge an iPhone, the battery heats up naturally as that's what happens when you charge a battery.


Give it a few days. Don't push it hard while it's setting itself up for a couple days. Accept that your iPhone will get warm if you push battery intensive activities such as streaming video, playing video games, watching YouTube videos, etc.


Finally, getting warm and overheating are completely different. iPhone has circuitry built in to protect it against overheating. If your phone things it needs to cool down, you'll see a message on the screen with a thermometer, telling you the phone needs to cool down. If you are not seeing that, your phone isn't overheating.

Feb 18, 2024 5:46 AM in response to lobsterghost1

Spot on message. Thank you 😆

I figured I’d give it a few days. I think I was bugged out because of everyone complaining of heat & yet it seemed to be a little too hot but after a while yesterday it cooled off immensely & only heated up when I was on phone with apple support for another device I have. && yes - I have only gotten overheating on a phone that I’ve left in the sun but feeling how hot it was getting made me concerned for an expensive phone I just bought. I was ready to just take it back today. 😀

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