Apple Releases iOS 17.0.3 With Fix for iPhone 15 Pro Overheating

[shpankey]

Seems people side stepping this obvious issue.

Not to mention charging and taking pics as well. Mine got cRaZy HOT doing the update! I’ve handed it to a few iPhone users (12, 13 & 14 users) and asked if it was hot to them and they all were astonished just how hot it was. For whatever that’s worth. Anyhow, I’ll never understand why there are people in here so triggered to defend a company. Relax life continues and you will live with people expressing concerns about Apple or their hot iPhones.

 

[JulianL]

Not to mention charging and taking pics as well. Mine got cRaZy HOT doing the update! I’ve handed it to a few iPhone users (12, 13 & 14 users) and asked if it was hot to them and they all were astonished just how hot it was. For whatever that’s worth. Anyhow, I’ll never understand why there are people in here so triggered to defend a company. Relax life continues and you will live with people expressing concerns about Apple or their hot iPhones.

I haven’t read every single post here but from what I have read at least some of the people “so triggered to defend the company” are simply pushing back at the (not exact quotes, I’m attempting to summarise various positions) “Apple quality control is useless”, “the developers should be fired” etc positions. I personally don’t for one second deny that there is a problem here, Apple itself has admitted that, but from what I’m reading on the forums it’s not a simple issue. I’m a 15 Pro Max user, also using one of the apps that can trigger the issue (Uber in my case) yet my phone has never even got noticeably warm even after an upgrade (when background indexing can be an issue immediately afterwards) let alone in regular use. It seems to be an issue that affects some users and not others even when the same apps are being used so probably not a “did they not test this before they released it and immediately see the problem?” level of problem. Easily reproducible problems tend to be easier to fix vs hard to reproduce ones.

I’ve said it a few times on this thread but I’ll say it again. I do think that, given that Apple says that it has identified the problem, it really could defuse some of this backlash if it would just release slightly more detail about the nature of the issue. Buffer overflow? Race condition? Something else?

 

[Abazigal]

Granular? This overheating issue was all over the friggen news. Even my local 1-2 news stories a day site had this issue featured. Developers? Maybe, but I have yet to find any factual information on how they contributed to this problem other than Apple says so, which is why my "silence is deafening", because I look at facts & data, not excuses.

Did your local news outlet research on this story independently, or did they too just repost said article without verifying its authenticity? Which was precisely what happened with Ming Chi Kuo and his claims of the iPhone thermal issues being caused by bad hardware design.

 

[cRuNcHiE]

Interestingly I ran Geekbench again today and got a much better result

 

[Tagbert]

Interestingly I ran Geekbench again today and got a much better result

Geekbench results can vary a little bit from run to run, possibly due to background apps running at a given time.

My GB scores were basically the same before and after applying the patch. No surprise as I never believed that it was a hardware problem that would require a crude throttle limit and seemed more like an out of control process type of software bug.

 

[MathersMahmood]

Update: my phone never had an issue but now is starting to really get hot. Nice. Real nice.

 

[robvalentine]

My iPhone 15 Pro only got really hot after the update. Its going back to apple on Monday. And I'm going back to my s23+

 

[triptolemus]

So did the fix work? Please forgive me for not reading 21 pages.

 

[Tagbert]

Update: my phone never had an issue but now is starting to really get hot. Nice. Real nice.

Odd. Mine was only ever warm on setup day and has been cool since. After the update it remain cool. You might try restarting it and see if whatever process is stuck and burning electrons gets cleared. I don’t think that there is anything inherent in this release to make your phone warm but things do go wrong sometimes.

 

[sziehr]

The fix did not work for me at all. If I still had a return window I would return it. This thing is total trash. I will end up engaging Apple and then eventually sell this horrible 15 pro. I am extremely disappointed with this years model

 

[Wags]

So did the fix work? Please forgive me for not reading 21 pages.

Some say yes, some say no. Some say didnt before update but now do have problems.

 

[Khavik]

So did the fix work? Please forgive me for not reading 21 pages.

Overall they solved problem with heating during idle or light activities but during heavy usage it still gets a little warm. Btw let’s say overheating problem is checked but will they do a statment about poor frames coating? 😢

 

[bradl]

Some say yes, some say no.

There's a Beatles reference in here somewhere, yes? 😁

BL.

 

[NT1440]

For people still having problems have you run all of your app updates as well?

 

[Nikhil72]

My battery has been excellent on 17.0.3. Am on vacation now and got 6,5 hours SoT on my 15 pro max which was 60% camera in pro-raw mainly outdoors on a sunny day with auto brightness; RAW processing in Lightroom mobile; tons of maps search and ChatGPT for information about the sites I was at. Never got more than leukwarm despite it being 75 and sunny here.

 

[AustinIllini]

Why an iPad OS update if this an iPhone and A17 pro issue.

Because iPad OS isn't really an OS. It's just iOS.

 

[Abazigal]

Why an iPad OS update if this an iPhone and A17 pro issue.

There were security fixes bundled into the patch as well, I believe.

 

[0134168]

No problems before the update. Zero problems after.

 

[topdog9000]

My phone would get pretty HOT during regular voice calls. No other issues or overheating. The new update fixed this issue for me. Actually the only other issue I have is that my iMessages still won’t index properly when coming over from my 13pro. The conversations are there and the pictures are in the thread, but I can’t search the messages or see the pictures in the summary section of the contact. Everything going forward is there and searchable but all the past convos didn’t index or something.

 

[^^BIGMac]

So did the fix work? Please forgive me for not reading 21 pages.

Hard to tell. Some say “yes” others say “not really”.

I’m waiting until iOS 17.6 before ordering a new phone.

 

[shpankey]

For people still having problems have you run all of your app updates as well?

I have

 

[BigDO]

I’m getting much better results from running 17.1 b2

 

[bradl]

I’m getting much better results from running 17.1 b2

Details, please.. less heating? dissipation? You can now use your iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max to recharge the freon in your air conditioner? 😁

Seriously, how much better is it?

BL.

 

[sstiwari]

So did the fix work? Please forgive me for not reading 21 pages.

Nope. In fact it's got worse.

 

[AndyDandy1]

Update: my phone never had an issue but now is starting to really get hot. Nice. Real nice.

SAME C'mon apple!!!!