Overheating iPad - SOLUTION ?

Very true, the display used in the new iPad is no joke, and no one seems to understand its insane resolution and PPI for screen as small as it. The new quad core graphics don't even provide that much of a performance boost, two cores are being used just for the display.

Consumer Reports is not to be trusted at all.

Here is a credible article with actual test and methodology:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1166068/not_so_hot_new_ipad_heat_levels_comparab le_to_android_tablets.html

I cycled my battery three times and did a reset. Mine was warm to begin with, but that has decreased since I cycled the battery three times and did a reset. I was at the point of returning my new ipad, when I decided to cycle a third time. This has helped a lot. Don't give up and realize that all electronics do give off heat. My Macbook Pro runs hotter than my ipad, but they are two different machines as are the different models of ipads. I had to realize that they are not going to be the same just like different models of the iphones are different from each other. Hope this perhaps helps others. 🙂

My new iPad has been warm but by no means "hot". Today it started getting really warm. I'd been sitting in the same place for about an hour, just using Safari and mail. Then I realized what had happened: my wife had opened the curtain on a large window, flooding the room with the morning sun. The iPad's auto brightness feature had upped the screen's brightness. I was able to see how much brighter it was by turning off auto brightness and watching the screen dim.

I admit I've been thinking, "these folks are nuts using the iPad at 100%!". I didn't realize I was doing the same thing without meaning to.

So it seems that the heat is definitely from the screen, that said, I did notice that the auto brightness feature isn't very responsive to moving from a bright room to a dark room - it doesn't seem to dim the screen much if at all in that case. You'll see this if you set auto brightness on, go for a dark room into a light room, return to the dark room, and toggle the auto brightness switch.

I just bought my new ipad about 2weeks ago.. Yesterday, my new ipad was overheating and a message pops up, saying "the iPad needs to cool down". Now, i can't open all aplications and games i downloaded before from apple store.. What should i do.?? Somebody help me please.

ok. my ipad doesn't get so hot that teher is amessage but i'm worried about its heat .....i'll tr this tips but how can i recycle battery

do you mean to make it 0 iand shuts down i should charge it or hooow plz tell me befor returning it back

To fix the overheating issue, I have found that you should not charge the battery until it is drained to at least 5%, although 1% or completely drained would be best. I have done this for 2 weeks now and haven't had any overheating issues. Hope this helps.

You're also killing your battery life. Deep discharges are hard on lithium batteries.

Hi... i just bought a New ipad 32g...I am a new user, so i just used my ipad for surfing internet or use calendar. No demanding games or any of tthat...My Ipad get hot after 25 minutes (just surfing on the web). I had galaxy 2 and i ran with more demanding apps and i never feel that kind of temparature..... apple what you can say about it ?

But if i bought it beacuseb of retina display and pretty colors... If i had to set brightness to 25% so i dont need a retina display.... I mean apple has a issue here and must provide a solution....

Yea I feel the same way so I just got my ipad 2 back. Looks just as good runs faster and still stone cold. The retina display is over rated not worth a burnt up ipad

did you turn on the auto brightness of the iPad?😕

How do you set up as new phone? I too have problem with overheating and am trying to follow your steps outlined here but unsure of how to set up as new phone..ie. where do I do this?