Does frequent gaming will affect Iphone

I'm writing off my own experience so take my advice with a grain of salt.

The battery is known to 'degrade' when reaching excessive temperatures. Apple recommends keeping the temperature between to 32 degrees Fahrenheit and 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

I used to game heavily on my phone which would get hot. After a year, I noticed that I had to fully charge my phone 3 times a day in order to make it through a day with light usage. Also, I noticed that the phone would die when the battery percentage display would be at all sorts of numbers, 37%, 43%, 7%, and sometimes stay on 1% for 5 minutes while running a processor-intensive game.

After taking my phone to the Apple store for a diagnostic, Apple confirmed issues with the battery. There's no way to know if having my phone stay hot for long periods of time damaged the battery or if I just had a defective battery.

My recommendation is if you know you will be gaming heavily to take the case (if you have one) off your phone and to be in a cool environment to try to keep the phone from getting too hot.

sarathfromtrivandrum wrote:

Thanks Lawrence for response, but this is not designed to do so right, if the hardware can handle heavy graphics then why cant we use the phone heavily.

Nobody here ever said you can't use the phone heavily. You're starting to not make sense.

It won't affect your phone, but it might lead to repetitive stress injuries over time.

The phone has thermal protection, and it will shut down if the internal temperature exceeds design limits.

Why would any reputable company make a device that can be harmed by simply doing what it was designed to do?

I don't understand your question. You can do no damage to the phone by playing games 24 hours a day. But you probably will get tendonitis or other physical injuries to your hands if you do. This has nothing to do with the phone, it has to do with limits of the human body.

Styna wrote:

I'm writing off my own experience so take my advice with a grain of salt.

The battery is known to 'degrade' when reaching excessive temperatures. Apple recommends keeping the temperature between to 32 degrees Fahrenheit and 95 degrees Fahrenheit.

I used to game heavily on my phone which would get hot. After a year, I noticed that I had to fully charge my phone 3 times a day in order to make it through a day with light usage. Also, I noticed that the phone would die when the battery percentage display would be at all sorts of numbers, 37%, 43%, 7%, and sometimes stay on 1% for 5 minutes while running a processor-intensive game.

After taking my phone to the Apple store for a diagnostic, Apple confirmed issues with the battery. There's no way to know if having my phone stay hot for long periods of time damaged the battery or if I just had a defective battery.

My recommendation is if you know you will be gaming heavily to take the case (if you have one) off your phone and to be in a cool environment to try to keep the phone from getting too hot.

Your battery failed not because of temperature, but you used it up. The battery is spec'd for 400 full charge/discharge cycles. If you fully drain the battery every day that's about 14 months. If you drain it more than once a day that's less time. The phone has a thermal protection circuit that will shut it down if it gets hot enough to damage anything. And actually Lithium batteries do not degrade at higher temperatures. Electric cars and plugin hybrids use the same battery technology (like the Tesla, Chevy Volt, Prius Plugin, Nissan Leaf) and they run much hotter than iPhones. And last 10 years.

Will your phone get damaged if you make frequent calls in one day? Or if you play songs every moment of your waking day? Or if you send 50 emails an hour?

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You can use the phone as much as you want. As long as you use Games directly from the App Store you should be okay.