A lot of people are next level compared to Jerry. He used to do more tutorial stuff but it's obvious the popular niche now is destroying the device and making cracks (sometimes clever) against apple.
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iPhone 16 Pro Max 16 PRO MAX has no metal battery, whereas the normal 16 pro has high quality metal casing battery
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A lot of people are next level compared to Jerry. He used to do more tutorial stuff but it's obvious the popular niche now is destroying the device and making cracks (sometimes clever) against apple.
The 15’s all overheat bad, and there are reports that the 16 pros overheat as well, just read this forum. It’s only been 5 days since the phones came out, and the media doesn’t “grab ahold” of every issue the iPhones have.
Tim isn’t gonna give you a free phone for running pr for him. These phones are flawed because Apple Cares more about appeasing Wall st every quarter instead of building the best devices they are capable of.
What’s you rational for saying the foil wrapped is lower quality than the metal encased battery?
I’d think the foil wrapped would allow better heat dissipation.
Besides, it’s on the inside.
No no no. YOU’RE the one making the claim. YOU back it up. What’s YOU’RE educational background? Who are you to know in a particular case what parts should be used? And, two clowns on YoUTubE is not the answer.
Be interesting to see what happens with this. Some of those posters, seem to think overheating means warm/hot to the touch. Mine was almost uncomfortably hot when I first got it and everything was setting up. Haven’t had an issue since though.My iPhone 16 Pro Max overheats while usin… - Apple Community
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I don't need a free phone, I can buy anything I wish...
A few posts on a forum, when they're setting the phone up and it's still indexing is not a reflection of the whole percentage of buyers who have had zero issues. People with tons of photos, sms history, apps, music etc all add to the indexing and generated heat, and any new device can take days to settle and adjust, throw into the mix poor cell signal or weak wifi and again, a reason for heat. Warm is also not overheating, overheating is when the warning appears on screen, or the phone shuts off.
The link you posted to the Apple Discussion page is also all Level 1 posters - likely not all genuine - as you can tell by the spelling and how they're written - they're not the best educated.
And trust me, the media do "grab ahold" of anything negative towards the richest tech company in the world - it's their job to do so.
A few threads on his forum, a couple of threads on another forum, it's on reddit and articles from more than a few tech sites. Are you waiting for it to show up on The View or maybe The Reed Out on MSNBC?
Getting a bit overly dramatic aren't we? I don't think anyone really considers a metal battery casing to be of the utmost importance. You said yourself that you're sticking with your 15PM - that's not got a metal battery casing either.
Most likely next year they will ship it with a metal battery casing, and I suppose that is a very very slight upgrade, but still, this is mostly a complete non-issue that almost nobody is going to care about.
Yea time will tell, now that it’s cooled down though it might not be much of an issue here until next summer.
I got this warning on my 15pm in July, the entire phone throttled down so bad the phone was operating at about 1 fps.
I saw the exact same excuses here a year ago in regards to the 15’s, and until I see some actual evidence that they’ve improved the thermal capabilities of the phone I don’t think much will change this year.
I’d say the phone failing to operate normally, and being too hot to hold is definitely overheating as has happened to me multiple times, will the 16’s be any cooler? I don’t know, the wealthiest company in this history of mankind had a whole year to fix the issue and apparently all we got is some duct tape. Doesn’t instill confidence, especially after last years fiasco.
iPhones are sold around the world, one doesn’t need an Ivy League education to know when ya phone is boiling hot.
And to address some of the claims here made by those defending Apple. I’d like to point out that I’ve seen dozens of posts stating that smartphones are now “mature”, and there’s “nothing left to innovate”, and that the iPhone is like a Porsche 911.
The problem with these statements is that they are very wrong, and people making criticisms of Apple have a lot of good points. I used to be a hardcore fanboy of companies I loved myself, from cars to Apple, that ended once I finally realized that these huge corporations didn’t give a damn about me and only cared about their own insatiable greed, at the cost of everything else.
To use the Porsche example, for starters, Porsche continually improves cars like the 911 every year, and has been at the top of the automotive industry in quality for decades. Even if the car doesn’t change on the outside, they continually improve things on the inside. They would never ship a vehicle that overheated under normal use, and if that did happen, it certainly would be corrected for the next model year.
So I think the issue a lot of people have with Apple these days is that the iPhone has been pretty much the same over the last 5 years or so. The flaws have not been corrected, and the quality has gone downhill, all while customer service has gone into the dumpster.
So, if the iPhone has the best hardware available, and was on the cutting edge of smartphone design, engineering, and features, many of us would find the trade off acceptable. But since the iPhone is barely changed year over year we expect a lot better, and Apple has a lot more money than Porsche does! This phone should be perfected by now, it shouldn’t have ram bottlenecks and be overheating still, even dirt cheap Android phones have things like vapor chambers. The iPhone should be state of the art, yet it feels like it’s getting made by bean counters more and more every year who instead of trying to smash the competition, only seem to care about maximizing quarterly profits.
Like the 16 pro’s, “built from the ground up for AI”, but it only has just barely enough ram to get by until the 17 pro’s come out next year. The screens are the same as last year and are reported to be dimmer and lower quality than last year. How long will a 16 pro work properly when this AI stuff needs more and more power? It’s not future proofed. Meanwhile, Google just stuffed 16gb of ram into the Pixel, and a much brighter screen.
I guess I just expect more from the wealthiest corporation to ever exist.
Pixel 9 XL uses g4 tenor which iPhone 12 with A12 beats this to hell. lol . What a joke.
Maybe not the best example, Porsche churned out faulty engines for years! Failing IMS bearings plagued numerous vehicles, and still does to this day. Didn't matter on mileage, driving style or geographic location temperature wise.
I'd rather my phone got warm then my sports car engine blew up, the phone is still working as designed, the Porsche - not so much
.I do get the analogy though, but I've never believed forum horror stories unless it happened to me personally, and no iPhone has EVER overheated on me regardless of country I am in, or how I am using the device.
Lol if you dont like it, return it and dont buy it. its that simple actually rather then going pages and pages of essay. Its just a phone sonner or later you gonna change it anyways. Life is more then wrapping ur head around metal casing and none metal casing debates As long as it doent explode and able to cook an egg and the phone fucntion as intended, move on . If not just get other brands.
I think in part the metal casing in the smaller phone allows for a bigger % jump in battery relative to the promax, condensing the package ever so slightly. Heat produced has to go somewhere regardless of battery casing. It doesn’t evaporate into thin air inside our metal slab.
My 16 Pro Max is infinitely cooler than my 15 PM was. Just snapped 40 proRaw images in a row and it got mildly warm for a moment and cooled down. Not the case with a 15
My 16 Pro Max is infinitely cooler than my 15 PM was. Just snapped 40 proRaw images in a row and it got mildly warm for a moment and cooled down. Not the case with a 15
Apple puts experimental designs in their worst selling products. The smaller Apple Watch also had this style of battery where the Ultra and 42 MM on up did not. It essentially increases the battery density without taking up extra space. They simply didn't need it in the PM or it was too costly...Eventually it will trickle down thought.