New iPad overheating?

Well hot and cool are not scientific measurements. Like some call me tall and some call me short. It's what is relative to your point of reference. My mother sets her hot water heater so hot and can wash dishes in it just fine. If I stick my hand in there I can't do it. It's too hot for me. What's hot to one is not to another. It also depends what people run on it. Playing waking mars barely warms my iPad. Playing sky gamblers and it's cooking after a while.

@BeersYourFriend You are right. It is meant to be held. On that premise a laptop is meant to be put on your Lap. Who can do that these days? Sure people complained when laptops needed so much power they could not be used on your lap anymore but everyone adapted. If you want less heat, then you want less power. Get an iPad 2. You don't complain if you buy a gaming laptop that gets hot. You expect that. Sheesh. I am just trying to put thing in perspective for people who dont understand basic electronics. Maybe apple should make the next gen iPad in two models. One iPad with less processor power that stays cool and an iPad extreme that does what it needs to for gaming. I bought mine as a gaming console. Heck, it still doesn't get as hot as my ps3 or my Xbox 360.

I do hope my "lecture" helps people understand all that extra horsepower generates extra heat.

I have the 32GB LTE version and it gets very hot to the touch, I have noticed it doesn't matter what I am doing. This is my first iPad, is this normal? I had the Droid X phone do the same thing last year and it "fried" it.

So far, I've played a game for 1/2 hr and watched part of a HD movie rental for 1/2 hr, running on battery (i.e. not plugged in.) No significant heat coming from the iPad, front or back. I'm all paranoid now lol.

iPad 64gb/4g (no sim), no case, auto brightness.

Ambient room temperature is 23-24C.

I tell you though, I hope I don't end up with this problem either because this screen is gorgeous.

joelfromcanada - what is your brightness%? And are you sure you don't feel anything in the lower-left corner (in portrait position with the home button at the bottom)? Mine is as warm as...a cooked bag of movie popcorn ;-)...after 10 minutes with Safari at 30% brightness. Ambient Temp is 70 degrees f.

I have 32GB Wifi. UPS brought it Friday morning, it had an 89% charge. I played with it (surfed, chatted, added info, music etc..) it held the charge beautifully. Didn't notice a heating problem until today. The sucker got HOT! Figured it was time to charge anyway since it was just about depleted. I plug it in and go about my business, six hours later and it's only at 25%, still HOT, but not only that.....my charger is very HOT as well. I have multiple sclerosis - hot is bad! I also noticed that while my Smart Cover was on, it didn't go to sleep. *sniff sniff* :(

I have an iPad couse i am tired to have my hot computer on my lap if my computer was cool as my old Ipad 2 I wouldn't by an iPad , this is a Mobil device we r very lucky that we don't have to put our 360 and ps3 on our laps right vaughner?

We all love apple products and if we reporting this is couse we know this is not the way apple makes their products they think on everything , don't try to give us a lesson in what is correct and what doesn't in a Mobil divide , my 9 years old son can tell u the difference between cool and hot , he is really a fried to play with the new Ipad , so I need to return it and get him an iPad 2 :( .

My 3rd gen 64gb at&t model gets extremely hot with regular usage. I used an infrared temperature gauge on the front and rear of the iPad and discovered that temps on the glass got to 101 with temperature on the back approaching 108 degrees. This is far too hot to be sitting on ones lap.

No case, only a smart cover.

Fair enough. I didn't claim to say it is the right choice for everyone. I was shocked when I first used my first MacBook pro at how hot it got.

It seems some people may have iPads that run hotter than others. I don't have these charging issues with mine and it cools as soon as I let it be. I just wanted to express I expected more heat with this model. Mine is where I expected it. You all do what you want to.

I'm out.

I took an infrared temp reading as well and had the same readings as you...

101 on the front left side while in portrait mode...this was the highest temp on the front, located right about where the second row of app icons is located...the temp then trails off by a few degrees as I move up, down or right from that area...

Maybe if someone at Apple is reading this ;-) this will help them locate what is causing the warmer area on this spot on the iPad.

I think I figured out what's happening here: The brightness has a greater range on the new iPad, allowing you to turn it up higher than you can on the iPad 1 and 2. I came to this conclusion by setting one next to the other. The new iPad can clearly be turned up brighter than the iPad 2. Combine that with a larger battery, a graphic processor that's working harder to compensate for a greater number of pixels, and warmer colored screen causing a natural desire to make it whiter by turning up the brightness, and I think you'll have your reason for the heat.

I predict Apple will workaround the issue by lowering the overall possible intensity.

gregarious64 wrote:

I think I figured out what's happening here: The brightness has a greater range on the new iPad, allowing you to turn it up higher than you can on the iPad 1 and 2. I came to this conclusion by setting one next to the other. The new iPad can clearly be turned up brighter than the iPad 2. Combine that with a larger battery, a graphic processor that's working harder to compensate for a greater number of pixels, and warmer colored screen causing a natural desire to make it whiter by turning up the brightness, and I think you'll have your reason for the heat.

I predict Apple will workaround the issue by lowering the overall possible intensity.

genius! i was just thinking about this on my drive home from work.

we all claim the battery and graphics card ..... but the only solution so far has been to turn down the brightness

so does brightness affect how quickly or how much of the battery is being used , does brightness make the processor work harder, does brightnesss affect the work on the video card?

i guess we all need to get

http://www.icelsius.com/index.php to take our ipads temperature.

but on a serious note does anybody know of an app to let you see the temp that ios device is running at ?

obviously apple has sensors in there that tell the ipad to shut down at a certain degree

My iPad starts to heat up, but it has not gotten uncomfortably hot. I lowered my brightness the other day, but raised it up today because I was in a lighting situation where I needed it brighter. I am on it right now and I am not feeling heat right now. It is getting slightly warm. I haven't started to worry about it. I think because it has a bigger battery and all, that some heat is to be expected. It is still just slightly warm. Just adding my bit.

High performance machine souped up runs the parts harder. I replaced a gen 1. Nice high tech machine. gen 1 on steroids. Love it. Next for us will be the gen five in two years.

Who cares if it's warm? Rather have less memory or a less faster machine?

I am sorry you are having that trouble. I have not had that experience. Mine is just warm, not really hot to the touch. I am really sorry that yours is getting that hot. Take it back if it is that hot and uncomfortable. There apparently is a problem with yours.