My matte black 7+ 128g arrived about an hour ago. Using it for only about 10 mins it feels like I have my hands around a cup of hot coffee. (This is with and without a case) What's going on here? My 6+ never got warm or hot at all. Please tell me something isn't wrong with my phone...
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iPhone 7+ getting too hot?
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Mine got pretty warm when I first started it up and restored. It's been fine since.
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The only time my 6S would get hot would be during a restore
I was restoring mine, syncing my watch, and downloading all of my Google Photos....while charging. Yes it got hot, but once complete it's been normal.
The components are brand new. Give it some more time. I know my iphone 6 gets warm when I'm on it for an extended period of time. Especially with games. It's definitely more tech inside that phone so it can be a lot of factors giving off additional heat.
I'm pretty sure Samsung has sabotaged the batteries in the iPhone 7. Phone will explode soon enough.
My 6s Plus was always hot and that's part of the reason I went with the 7 this time. But honestly, it's probably from the restore.
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Likely due to new device setup. Indexing and restoring is a lengthy, intensive process. If you had any photos restored the Memories and People features could be scanning them too.
One shouldn't worry much about this. Apple stress-tests their CPUs incredibly well, at 100% multi-core load for probably weeks at a time. The thing is, electronics get warm. You're just feeling a bit of heat loss, which - at least on Earth in our current technological climate - is to be expected from a device carrying out 2.3 billion operations per second, times two, flawlessly in the palm of your hand. The nice thing is, Apple engineers, like all good engineers, work hard to ensure that 'unsafe' limits of temperature or power draw are never come close to in reasonable circumstances (from what I've seen most true CPU temperature limits are >=2x the normal operating temperatures), and fully prevented in unreasonable ones (the iPhone will shut itself off if it ever even comes close to getting 'too hot').
Smaller manufacturing processes are leading to, besides improved speed and efficiency, lower temperatures & heat loss as well. So this problem should, over the years, slowly shrink away. However, with the ridiculous clock speed bump of these new phones it makes sense the heat output might actually have jumped as well this generation. But holy **** I cannot wait to try them out because them speed gains should be crazy.
Smaller manufacturing processes are leading to, besides improved speed and efficiency, lower temperatures & heat loss as well. So this problem should, over the years, slowly shrink away. However, with the ridiculous clock speed bump of these new phones it makes sense the heat output might actually have jumped as well this generation. But holy **** I cannot wait to try them out because them speed gains should be crazy.
Heat is 100% normal. The phone can get upwards of 110F before even coming close to reporting thermal warnings.
If your phone isn't getting hot and shutting down, or throwing a dialogue about heat, then it's fine.
Even if it does throw a dialogue, it could be due to normal circumstances--charging while in direct sunlight / using the GPS / etc.
People overreact to hot technology these days, expecting everything to run at ambient temperatures all the time.
My phone was worryingly hot yesterday and this morning but it was STILL downloading all my music in the background and stuff as I did other tasks. Once that all finished up, my phone is at a normal feel and no more heat. iOS in general became really bogged down for me because of all that restoring/downloading going on so just be patient with it for whoever is reading this with a new phone!
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