New iPad overheating?

The brightness most definietly is causing these heat issues. Played Air Surpremacy again, at full brightness, and did get pretty warm. Not hot! I only played a quick match that lasted 10 minutes, and got warm. Plus, I lost about 10% of my battery, while playing only a 10 minute match. So, keep your brightness down a bit, and see if that helps. It is still unfortunate that we cannot use it at full brightness, without it getting hot. Oh well... The screen is so amazing, that I'll stick with it, even if it does get warm.

I mean, as long as you have a case on, your alright.

It would be nice if Apple gave use free back casings, to clear up the problem... Or, hopefully a quick update to the iOS!

Peace!

BeersYourFriend. I think the reset and battery drain helped mine. It still gets pretty warm but only when playing Real Racing or other graphic intense games. Not like day one. Day one it was hot even when browsing the web. Uncomfortably hot. And no it wasn't doing a backup or restore or anything like that. I was real close to sending it back (put it back in the box close). The warmth seems bearable now. I might get a case for it and call it good. As long as the case doesn't cause it to melt down.

Just opened my iPad and set up 30 minutes ago. And it's is indeed HOT compared to my friend's iPad 2 right beside it, bottom left corner like everyone else. Just a little bit of Facebook, Youtube and lest than 15 minutes on Safari and it made me uncomfortable when putting on my bare left arm. On Standby now, and it has cooled off completely. This is indeed worrying. And I have yet to tried out any games 😟

I think most of us who truly had problems seem to be tapering off

and most of us have learned if you keep the brightness under 75% you will not run into any major heat problems. 50% for intense gaming

There is twice as many backlights in the 3 as there was in the 2. which generates alot more heat

UPDATE: Just returned my New ipad back to Walmart, the excessive heat would not stop! It was getting really hot during HD games!! As well, the wall plug was getting real hot when charging! The Walmart manager said the whole lot they recieved on March 16th have all been returned by the customers because of over heating and getting HOT!! Well there you go, its obvious this is a serious issue! Good-Luck everyone!

The reason for the heat is that when one loads up the New Ipad the apps load and LOCATION SERVICES is

turned on. So I loaded my new Ipad from a restore off my Ipad2 and then had 55 apps installed , ALL ON.

The fix: Go to Settings/location services and turn off every app except maps and find my ipad and the heat will go away.

But Wait, there is another fix you need. Double click on your home button which will open the multi tasking bar and you will find every app running in the background,(because they were just loaded. Hold down any icon and

they will jiggle with a minus sign in a red area. . hit that to delete them , one by one. All of them!

Don't worry, they are still there and 3 things will happen. Your Ipad will run cool, run fast , and the battery life will increase remarkably. I did this and now get 11 hours, a cool Ipad. Good Luck.

PS I hope someone in Apple reads this and goes public with it, because there is no hardware issue or even

software one. Its just a learning curve for a new product.

read the blog above yours. We have met the enemy and it is us. The fix is simple. Turn off location services one by one. Imagine a house with all lights and apppliances on. The meter will be hot. Shut off all except required and it will cool down. Mine did and battery runs for 11 hours

shouldnt have to redo things and work miracles for the new ipad to work correctly, at $600!! I didnt have to do anything with my ipad 2, except use it:) Im going back to my trusty ipad 2, good luck with your toasters and ovens. Hope you dont burn your house down when its charging:(

The fix is easy. Go to location services and shut off all except maps and find my Ipad and any other needed.

When an app loads location services is installed in the on position. This is just a user learning matter. Mine ran hot, I fixed it and now its cool, fast and long battery life.

I always close all apps like this on my iDevices -- this is not a new feature -- and have had locations disabled since initial setup, and mine still gets hot...

The battery drain does seem to help a small amount (maybe placebo, not sure), and I will try to do it many more times before 2 weeks is up and report back.

so you have to shut alot of things off for it to work right.. NO thanks!! You shouldnt have to do and thats not the problem anyways genius! The thing gets blazing HOT playing HD games!! Play Real Racing 2 for 30-45 mins and it will be on fire!!!!

You come to Apple support community forums, to ask if you should buy the new iPad? See... This is why this forum is becoming a joke!

Yes. Why dont you go buy a new iPad, then come back here and ask if you should return it.

How about that?

Since you seem to have such a negative view of iPad, if you own one, you should definitely return it, get your money back and go get yourself a lesser droid device. If you have already done this, then why are you still here ranting?

The heat is caused by having all your apps on at the same time and you dont know it. Go Settings / locations services / and shut off all except findmy Ipad, maps stuff and any important app that need your location.

Image your house with all the lights,heat and TV on . Check the meter and you will find its warm too.

Now shut off what you don't need and you will ahve a cool fast Ipad. I dis and I have great battery life as well.

Clearly Matt941 just wants to complain about the problem and not fix it. I agree with you.

By the way, the thing has been out for a week and game playing take priorrity over reading the instruction book and doing the fix. Wow!