MacBook Air M2 Heating Problem

Open Activity Monitor in Utilities>View>All Processes, Energy tab, sort on Energy Impact.

And/or... In Disk Utility>View, select Show all Devices, highlight the top left entry.

Run Disk First Aid on all items in the left panel, from top down.

Are you running any VPN, Anti-Virus, or Cleaning apps?

We need to see what all is running, a report from this will not display any personal info...

Using EtreCheck - Apple Community

EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info. Give it Full Disk Access.

https://www.etrecheck.com/

Give etrecheck Full Disk Access before running.

Thanks for Old Toad’s etrecheck instructions…

Slow iMac 2017 - Apple Community

To get more insights into the Health of the Battery

A free or paid for application specifically designed for this purpose

https://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

The important elements are in red outlined areas in the image

The M2 MBA is a Fan-less computer

It it Totally dependant on proper ventilation

It is all dependent on environmental conditions like Temperature and Humidity

• Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
• Storage temperature: –13° to 113° F (–25° to 45° C)
• Relative humidity: 0% to 90% noncondensing

Some of the biggest enemies to batteries are using the computer for long periods of time in temperature above or below the guidelines set out by Apple

I had my MacBook Air M2 on Sonoma for a few months since I purchased it in June. I used to marvel how cool the laptop ran. Since upgrading to Sequoia 15.1.1 (straight from Sonoma), I noticed it ran very warm, even when charging with the lid closed. Hopefully the next update due in a few days will address it.