My iPhone 16 Pro Max overheats while using the Camera app

I’ve had mine since the 20th. Same issues. No background tasks on. I spoke with Apple yesterday and they won’t admit others are having issues but told me to return the phone or swap it for a new one. It can’t be we are all having this problem coincidentally. I’m wondering if it’s the new update too or just this phone

I just bought an Iphone 16 pro. It was overheating even from starting/trasferring the data from old phone.

Is it still happening

Mine 16 Pro is doing the same it’s getting hot when doing simple task on the iPhone , even typing this it’s getting hot .

ready other peoples comments there’s a lot of us experiencing this issue .

How do I sort this problem out ?

let’s hope Apple can tell us why ?

16 ProMax Overheating. During **** near anything and everything. Text for a few minutes? Lose 20% battery power. Take a picture and edit it? every time you do it'll drop the battery by 10%. FaceTime for an hour? Battery goes from 100% to 46%. I did notice that photos was also going like 90% in the background all. the. time. Phone is hotter than **** and won't charge because its temperature is too high and needs to cool down. Also frequent errors during charging that the phone can't continue to charge until the temperature lowers. I have contacted Apple, submitted diagnostics, worked with engineers, so far the only solution is every time the phone heats up to do a reset it. This means I'm resetting the phone multiple times in most hours of the day, and several times while charging to get it to 100%. If the phone is doing that much background indexing, I really FEAR what the inclusion of AI is going to do to this thing. Apple says the phone isn't the issue, and if they're right, I'm not convinced but if they are it seems like this 18 a stinker of an iOS...

I take that back. A few days later the issue is back, worse than ever and the overheating problem is as bad as on my original iPhone 16 Pro. Either I got a second dud device or this is software. Entire device slow, freezing, unresponsive, crashing, very hot and unusable.

Same. Extremely hot as soon as I open the camera

My iPhone is heavily overheating and I have only had it for one day. There is no pattern to it, it happens across multiple apps.

Same experience here. Runs hot with camera. Extremely hot with video for any length of time.

Hi, i have the same issue. Today in carplay after 30 min, phone was very hot, yesterday during watching ip cameras too and after 10 minutes in youtube i feel on fingers how it starts to be hot. I worry about degrading of battery due to high temperature. I switched from iphone 15 pro and no such issue with the same ussage. Some frustrating issue…

Bobobobo57 wrote:

So why does this not happen on older models?

Every year for the last few years, people get their new iPhone and immediately say it's overheating while using the camera, watching video, playing games, charging. And that is common with new phones. VERY COMMON. They are indexing millions of bytes of data, at the same time people are using battery intensive activities. If you are NOT seeing a thermometer or a warning on the screen the phone needs to cool down your phone is NOT overheating.

Mine as well

The back of my iPhone 16 Pro becomes extremely hot to touch when i charge it on my new Belkin BoostCharge Pro Convertible Magnetic Wireless Charging Stand with Qi2 15W. Specifically where the magsafe charger is attached in the centre of the phone.

I have tested with the magsafe case on and off. Both tests result in an overheated phone. Very concerning.

A few weeks later and it’s still happening constantly, forced restarts are pretty common cause it’s the only thing bf that stops it, but a few hours later it just dies it again.. and again.. and again.

16 pro here, same issues. Debating if it’ll be fixed with a software update or if hardware is damaged and needs to be returned. I’ve had the phone for 2 weeks and today went to use the camera outdoors. Had the camera app open for ~10 mins which led to the screen dimming all the way, before saying the phone needs to cool down. My 12pro never got hot like this. I also don’t see a big advantage with the new battery.. doesn’t last nearly as long as a new phone battery should