metal would not have wireless charging i think. Thats the reason for glass.
117 degrees F is hot. Found this article and it seems Apple says it's normal and designed to transfer heat to the frame. Last year it was a design flaw, this year it's a thermal feature. LoL
www.macobserver.com
There's a forum member that posted 117 degrees F when shooting 4K 240 on his 16PM.. Sounds hot to me. Heat doesn't just disappear it is transferred to cooler material around it. In this case the substructure and outer frame. When you have chips with this kind of performance confined in a small package it's going to get hot. The question is how long it takes for the 15PM to throttle and dim screen vs. the 16PM on the same workload. They will both get to that point regardless, I'd like to see how much of a difference Apples thermal changes actually make
the 16pm only goes up to 120 fps? Hard to tell with a report of one. I've recorded a bunch of 4k120 without anything more than slightly warm. And anecdotally, took a ton of shots outside on a 78 degree day and I didn't get any dimming on the 16PM. Will be somewhere tropical next week, let's see.
I actually found one comparison of thermal performance and although both phones got very hot, the 16PM was able to deliver higher frame rates for a substantially longer period of time than the 15PM. I'd say the thermal improvements are working well as far as extending the performance before throttling is necessary.
See my post above... I had exactly the same situation as you (Texas, iphone 14PM, outside, etc)
The article linked by BugeyeSTI explains it:
www.macobserver.com
Interesting article... No wonder I felt iphone 16PM (naked) hotter than iphone 14PM. However, many people, like myself, use iphone with case. This would defeat or slow down the effectiveness of iphone 16PM dissipating heat to outside.The article linked by BugeyeSTI explains it:
Basically, no matter how heat dissipation is improved inside the phone, the heat needs to escape outside the phone to the surrounding air which it can only do by going through the phone casing. So if heat is pulled away from the processor/etc more efficiently, it will improve performance but will result in the user feeling more heat on their hand. Because the iPhone uses the casing for heat dissipation, the only way to for the user to feel less heat is to insulate the phone (which is bad for the phone and performance), or for the processor/etc. to generate less heat in the first place.Here’s Why Your iPhone 16 Pro Max Is Running Hot Even After New Cooling Features
Discover why your iPhone 16 Pro Max feels hot despite new cooling features. Learn about thermal management and performance trade-offs.
Yeah a case does insulate and slow down overall heat dissipation, especially material like silicone. But a case, even one made of silicone, also has a lot of material and that material can probably absorb a nontrivial amount of heat (albeit slowly), which might make it ok for a limited period of heavy processing before it starts to trap too much heat inside the phone. But I believe there are also cases designed for heat dissipation—namely perforated and made of heat-conducting material.
