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solidsnake4

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Nov 30, 2020
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I know many are having problems with their screen but I haven't seen many people talking about the throttling issues with the new phones. Here are some videos and posts about it:

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ng-hot-and-thermal-throttling-issues.2266744/
https://ixeo.medium.com/does-the-apple-iphone-12-has-a-thermal-throttling-problem1e226b24c70

I notice my phone gets warm while using snapchat or some light browsing in safari, but when I play games the phone gets very very hot and there are noticeable frame drops. I compared the same games with my XR and the XR runs way better and much cooler. I then updated to the 14.3 beta to see if it could get better, but the issues are still there. I honestly dont play that many games and I wouldn't noticed if I hadn't subscribed to Apple Arcade, but for the price I cannot forgive this performance. My return window is closing in a week and I dont know what to do. Is this a software problem or a hardware problem, could it be fixed? I dont believe apple would allow something like this to happen. What are your thoughts?
 
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