My iPhone 16 Pro Max overheats while using the Camera app

Actually, the heating and freezing seems to correspond with interacting with video material? It’s worst when I’m shooting video, editing or viewing it, watching streamed video content or uploading/editing reels on Instagram?

iphone 16 pro 512gb. picked up phone on launch day. first few days, had the occasional reboot and phone would get quite warm, but when i woke up on thursday, phone was quite hot and all through the day, it would constantly reboot. the only time it wouldn't reboot was when i was in my car and it was against an air vent on a mag safe holder. yesterday morning was even worse. phone would only cool down in low power mode. after about an hour of trying to cool it down, placing it on an ice pack running a fan next to it, was able to back it up to my PC and did a fresh restore. been 24 hours, phone has not even gotten warm, is cool to the touch and *knock* on wood, hasn't rebooted. i'm thinking when i did the ios 18 install that was sent to the phone, it was the culprit since the original ios 18 preinstalled on the phone gave me no problems. the heating and rebooting only started after i installed the newer ios 18 OTA.

Had my 16 pro for less than 24 hours. It’s been on my kitchen counter, in an air conditioned house of course, and it’s on fire. Left it alone overnight. Still hot this morning. Still hot this afternoon. It’s been on fire since I turned it on. I haven’t mailed my exchange phone in yet. Don’t think I’m going to. This is bad. Bad bad.

my iPhone 16 pro max is overheating when just being used for 10-15 minutes of youtube/instagram or even safari.

i bought it in the hopes that it would be better but APPLE has DISAPPOINTED very badly

please solve this problem

I have had my 16pro max for a week and I’m so disappointed. Battery life is worse than my 14 and it’s overheating. Doesn’t seem to be any reason as to why.

Plus they had me upgrade my service cause my calls don’t stay connected and that didn’t work either- carrier blame apple, apple blames carrier. This might be it for my relationship with Apple products

I have my iPhone 16 pro max last Friday 27 and is being 2 days of loving the phone but it has to Mayor issues

1st . The overheating happens when camera is running and goes from cool to hot really quickly .

2nd . Battery doesn’t last too long as YouTube videos shows for more than 11h , barely mine last 8h

I’ve been using my iPhone 16 Pro Max for almost a week now and was expecting longer battery life after each charge, but I’ve noticed it drains quickly. I even set it to low power mode starting at 80% and limit charging to 90%. Despite this, I find myself needing to recharge after almost a day of simple tasks like texting and answering calls, with my phone idle most of the time. I upgraded from the iPhone 15 Pro Max for better battery life, but surprisingly, the older model performed better, even after almost a year of use. What happened to Apple’s claim of 33 hours of battery life?

I got my 16 ProMax on Friday, set it up Friday night, and noticed over the weekend and today as I am using the phone for emails, safari, etc…is hot to hold - it’s a cool day (66 degrees F) today.

So the phone can’t be on for more than 30 minutes at a time…?

To be honest, I have a 15 pro max that has been over heating ever since I bought it. I have hated the phone throughout. Yet I have been hoping to just get a 16 pro max as a way of fixing my hatred for the current 15 pro max. Now if this latest 16 pro max is also rumored to be over heating, then what can I do? Continue trusting the Apple products? This is not value for money. Please do something.

Same here. I’m a new user of an iPhone 16 Pro and it’s strange that using the phone only texting or watching a video the phone starts overheating. It’s not a problem that affects the use but, as a new iPhone user this bothers me.

Bangguit wrote:

My iPhone 16 Pro just started overheating watching YouTube

So it stopped playing the YouTube video and showed a thermometer on the screen and said the phone needs to cool down before you can continue? If no, your phone DIDN'T overheat. It got warm, which would be expected when doing activities like watching videos, streaming music or playing games. Doing things like that, makes the battery work harder. And when the battery works harder, it generates heat.

I’m experiencing an issue with my iPhone 16 Pro overheating. It just arrived yesterday, just started using it today and it’s quite warm with me using it for YT, games, and when just browsing normally as I did with my old 12 which never overheated.

I have an iPhone 16 Pro, I am noticing that the phone is burning hot, especially when I open the camera. I heard they used graphite to improve thermals, but I’m not noticing it. Is Apple doing anything about this issue?

JestaRavi wrote:

Any confirmation on this statement?

The statement is accurate and what happens with every new model iPhone released. Depending on how much data is being moved over to a new iPhone, it takes from a fews days to longer for the millions of bytes of data to be indexed on a new device. And while this is happening in the background, people are often pushing their shiny new iPhone, watching videos, streaming music, taking photos/videos, which are ALL battery intensive activities. When you push a battery harder, it generates heat as that is physics, normal and to be expected. If an iPhone REALLY overheats, it displays a thermometer symbol and says the phone needs to cool down before it can be used again. If the phone isn't doing that, it is NOT overheating.

I spoke with them several times and went to Genius Bar. Did a factory reset. The heating got better. Still warm but since no warnings on the phone they claim it’s normal. I still complained and apple care sent me a remanufactured and I have a few days to decide if I want that or to just stick it out with this and I don’t. Know what to do