So you know that because you have sampled 10000 iPhones and checked that neither of them are getting too hot? Apple recognizes the problem and apparently is trying to fix it. Accept that it’s an issue for some and move on.
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Apple Releases iOS 17.0.3 With Fix for iPhone 15 Pro Overheating
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Apple systems, but also Linux, also have to become way more focused on by hackers worldwide, making both pretty much as targeted as Windows has been since forever.
sure, Windows itself has been less secure, especially in the past, but a big portion of the so called superior security in macOS or Linux, is built upon the fact that they simply were not that much in the focus of hackers.
the sad reality is now, that Apple and Linux need to constantly fix newly found loopholes, that no system can be devoid of.
and they are lucrative both because of increasing marketshare (in case of Linux: inside the server world, where they are practically dominating that market), but also due to nice incentives like Russia paying you up to $20M if you are finding some zero day exploits for them. most likely not with the intention to fix them.
other states like China will surely give you some adequate benefits aswell.
Fixed it for me! I’ve had several longer calls this morning and my 15 PM stayed cool. Before the update it got really warm when calling. I’m happy!
LMFAO they just did that and they throttled it by 10%
Upgraded to 17.0.3...
In my case, previously on 17.0.2 overheating and very fast battery drain my iPhone15 Pro just with voice calls. Now with 17.0.3 no more overheating and battery life hugely improved.
In my case, previously on 17.0.2 overheating and very fast battery drain my iPhone15 Pro just with voice calls. Now with 17.0.3 no more overheating and battery life hugely improved.
The heating on using native Camera and Photos App is still persisting for me even after updating to 17.0.3.
Taking 4-5 pics in quick succession results in overheating.
Taking 4-5 pics in quick succession results in overheating.
maybe your photos are just too hot to process?
I'll confess straight away that I have no actual data to support my hunch but I do wonder how much less of a target Linux is vs Windows. It depends on how you measure it. If based solely on number of machines compromised then I am sure Windows wins but I'm not convinced that Linux is somehow flying under the radar here. Targeting someone's Windows desktop with malware is of interest to a hacker to maybe get passwords to bank accounts, do a ransomware attack or recruit the PC into a botnet for spam etc but corporate servers are also constantly being targeted for corporate/governmental ransomware attacks, state and/or corporate espionage and by various hacker groups motivated by protest or just showing off. Vulnerabilities are frequently identified and fixed at all levels of the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) for instance.
For the best funded and most competent hackers my suspicion (and again I 100% confess this is my hunch backed up by no data that I can find) is that they are just as focussed on compromising Linux-based systems as they are on Windows systems.
On MacOS I tend to agree with you that it is currently less of a focus for hackers compared to Windows and Linux, yet again based on just my hunch. I'm not sure what data one could get to actually substantiate or refute any of these hunches.
"no issue with mine"
That's useful because the more we get of these, the more likely it is a software issue or it only happens to a small minority.
I've just tried to replicate that overheating issue with mine 15 Pro by taking 15+ photos and several videos in ProRes and ProRAW but the phone stays ice cold! The battery % stays paralyzed as well. Are you using the regular Pro or Pro MAX?
Btw, I did some optimisation I gotta confess
Siri completely disabled, iCloud Drive, iCloud backup and in most apps iCloud is off as well, etc. I also don't use the social cr@p like insta and facebook so that's that too.
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I've just tried to replicate that overheating issue with mine 15 Pro by taking 15+ photos and several videos in ProRes and ProRAW but the phone stays ice cold! The battery % stays paralyzed as well. Are you using the regular Pro or Pro MAX?
Btw, I did some optimisation I gotta confess
Pro Max 256 GB. I suppose it’s not just one factor. Some combination of foreground and background activities is causing to overheat.
This was 6th time this overheating occurred when some camera activity was taken up and 1st after update to 17.0.3. Actually, it heats up after finishing the shooting and you press the power button to lock the screen, and you start feeling the heat in your pocket.
So, I soft reset the phone, then closed(Swipe Up) all other open Apps, and took again some snaps and videos, opened Photos App for upload to cloud, and now the phone did not Overheat.
People were experiencing warmer or hot phones when using Uber, Instagram, doing phone calls, all which should be even less resource dependent than Geekbench.
So we can put to the rest that Apple need to reduce performance when using light apps.
Apple said it was three causes for the heat which they had identified:
1) Setting up or restoring a device
2) A bug in iOS 17
3) Recent changes to some apps which causes them to overload the system
Apple fixes 2) and contacts certain developers to fix 3).
I don't think Apple ever said fixing 2) would fix 3). We simply don't know.
Yeah probably.
Probably the photos syncing to the cloud after you finished shooting adds up to the issue...
I'm doing it after each update and it's the first thing I do if I have some problems with a phone in general (not all people are doing it tho and in a lot of the cases turns out to be the culprit).
Don’t post BS without being able to prove it (you can’t).
What if the issue was caused mostly by Instagram and Uber and they changed their apps after Apple finished testing?
Everything from warm to hot to overheating.
People aren't good at defining what they mean when they use those words.
Interesting - yesterday, I missed a few calls as I didn't feel the vibration so sounds like this is broken
Oddly my iPhone 14 Pro Max got a little warmer immediately after installing the update 🤷🏼♂️
Actually the same thing happened to me with my 15 Pro Max but it noticeably cooled down later
It could be interpreted either way.
For instance, yes, maybe there were fewer software updates 10 years ago, but this doesn't necessarily mean software was more "error-free" in the past. It could also mean that critical errors were never identified, or a fix was never issued.
It also seems that a lot of the recent patches are designed to stop security flaws. If so, I would rather they be patched as soon as they are discovered, rather than have Apple sit on them and then issue one massive patch like 1-2 months later.