How do I fix heating issue on my iPhone 16 Pro?

I got a iPhone 16 Pro

And every time I go outside hot or cold it just gets hot!

But I know how to solve this.

First go to settings then click on battery then tap Battery Health & Charging. Then click clean energy charging. Then it will stop heating.

Hope this helps

Tata 👋

I am a iPhone user since 5 years, never faced any issues on my iPhone 11 that's the reason I trusted and upgraded my phone.

Today I got my phone ungraded from iPhone 11 to iPhone 16pro and the first day itself I am facing this heating issue.

everytime I click few photos. So I updated it to the latest ios 18.1 still the same thing. It gets even more hotter when I try to use the slightest of AI feature like clean up or even talking to siri, it heats up like sun.

Yup same! It happens so often when it’s on charge. I close down all my pages etc but the phone is definitely hot to touch. I don’t care what some people say in that it’s not; it bloody well is and as someone that has gotten a new iPhone every year, this is definitely not normal.

Ever since ios 17, they added some ai garbage to the phones that clearly cant handle it and iphones have been overheating. They know and refuse to fix the issue by getting rid of or at least making the ai optional. My partner has an 11 and i have a 15 pro. The second we try to download a game, its getting to hot to touch (SOME PEOPLE in the comments try to say its not overheating unless its turning off but the message is suppose to show up at 98* and if the average person runs 98* but their phone is to hot to touch then they are OBVIOUSLY touching something over that AND the phone fail safe isnt working)

I have just bought an iPhone 16pro and it gets seriously hot when just taking a few photos or texting messages

i I have never had this issue with an iPhone before

my wife had just bought a 12 month old iPhone pro 15 and it gets extremely hot too

it doesn’t come up with a messsge that it is overheating. It would be extremely hot I imagine for the warning

doesnt sound like teething problems to me

Seems to be a common fault

i am not comfortable with something that heats up so quickly and so hot

it feels dangerous

What do I do?

No not at all. Just opened the camera at our grand daughter’s graduation and it became really hot. Too hot to put in my pocket when it was put to sleep.

did the latest iOS 18 update as per suggestion below.

seems to have solved the problem

I got my iPhone 16 Pro yesterday! And today like I always do before sleep. I watch some stream on PIP and play some candy crush and my phone got super hot. I was so surprised. I exchanged from iPhone 13 and I never had this issue and previously from iPhone 12 Pro Max. This is really sad and frustrating. Any position from Apple for this case?

My iPhone 12 Pro Max is having similar issues recently since I upgraded to ios 18 so I think it may be a software issue. Hopefully more people can make apple aware of it because it’s quite scary having my phone overheating when charging or playing games to where it’s hard to hold.

Whenever I am on call, it gets hotter and I feel like it will peel my skin off.

and when it is on charge, it sticks on 80% mentioning that the the charging will resume after the temperature is cool down.

iPhone 16 pro max

location: Australia

I have OS 18.1.1 and am now noticing overheating when running an app I’ve had since 2016.

I have owned almost every iPhone and never experienced such heat before that I thought it would melt.

My Apple 12 Max was perfect I should have never bought a new one.

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Sure. But has been over a month now… And whenever watch anything in Apple TV app when not connected to either Wi-Fi or a mobile data network (when not connected to the internet, basically), the phone overheats and Apple TV just crashes / quits after a few a minutes of viewing because it’s got so hot again.

Again, this doesn’t happen with the Netflix app or the Disney+ app… And am now running iOS 18.3 on an iPhone 16 Pro…

So why is this still happening only with Apple TV app when its not connected to the internet?

When you say “…then you can push it harder”… What do you mean by this exactly?

Thanks.

karloscastaneda wrote:

Sure. But has been over a month now… And whenever watch anything in Apple TV app when not connected to either Wi-Fi or a mobile data network (when not connected to the internet, basically), the phone overheats and Apple TV just crashes / quits after a few a minutes of viewing because it’s got so hot again.

Again, this doesn’t happen with the Netflix app or the Disney+ app… And am now running iOS 18.3 on an iPhone 16 Pro…

So why is this still happening only with Apple TV app when its not connected to the internet?

When you say “…then you can push it harder”… What do you mean by this exactly?

Thanks.

How are you using the Apple TV app if it's not connected to either Wifi or Cellular? And what "push it harder" means is when you do battery intensive things, like watch videos, use the camera, stream music, etc., you are making the battery work harder, which generates heat naturally.

Surely you didn’t just ask that… !? 😬

You download the movies to your iPhone and access them in the “Downloaded” section of the Apple TV app to play them back while the iPhone is not connected to the internet.

Regarding “pushing harder”… That still doesn’t explain why watching downloaded movies in either Netflix or Disney+ apps (while not connected to the internet) does NOT cause this iPhone 16 Pro to heat up at all… And why watching downloaded movies in the Apple TV app (while also not connected to the internet) causes this iPhone 16 Pro to overheat to the point the app closes/quits.

!?

P.S. All movies I download in Apple TV are “SD” (not HD) format, in Disney+ “Standard” format, and in Netflix (where there’s no option to choose quality of video) it’s whatever Netflix uses.

Look forward to hearing back. 🙏🏻☸️🪷📿

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I’m glad you were able to sort it out. I just wanted to confirm formats, because otherwise it would have been Apple and orange comparison. HD HDR movies definitely push both CPU and graphics cores harder and will cause higher operating temperatures.

You’re welcome!

February 14,2025 I just set up my new iphone16 pro last night and noticed how hot my phone was getting. Also saw other comments about the battery. As someone who was told the battery is supposed to last a lot longer and is bigger … I just woke up to 58% battery lol. My iPhone 12 had under 80% capacity and certainly did a lot better than this . Kinda regretting this upgrade lol.