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Kuo: iPhone 15 Pro Overheating Issues Likely Due to Thermal Compromises, Not 3nm Node
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That would be the SE 3! TouchID 4evah! ☝️
Pro Max, haven't noticed anything out of the normal. Best phone I've ever used. 120hz is a no brainer for me. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend a Pro device to people that want the additional features.
What’s your usage case?
“Well I tried to record 30 minutes of ProRes at one time”
Well a giant Sony A7IV overheats trying to do that too.
My 15 pro max never got hot so far, battery draining a lot the first day (I bet some compilation / processing) but so far so good, I use only MagSafe 15 or 7.5 w and all good, but definitely I bet if you do fast charge 30W, plus gaming like crazy, well I bet this is expected to get warm ? No?
I mean apple is subject to same earth physical / mechanical laws as other manufacturer ? Right ? Otherwise they would use Naquadria ? 😅
I mean apple is subject to same earth physical / mechanical laws as other manufacturer ? Right ? Otherwise they would use Naquadria ? 😅
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If this cant be improved with a software update.. whats gonna happen when resident evil releases with ray tracing?
Yes last year transferring from 13 PM to 14 PM the 14 got warm during that and indexing my 15 PM stayed much cooler so better experience in my case
The skin on my hand is just melting; it's fine
Taking single shots at a concert using Pro RAW. If that's an intensive use case for this phone we've got issues.
mobile gaming will always be a joke that only exists in marketing presentations and not IRL
in theory yes it can run resident evil but in practice the phone overheats
in theory yes it can run resident evil but in practice the phone overheats
My M1 iPad Pro gets warmer on the back than my 15 Pro. I asked my wife if her 15 Pro gets hot, and she said her iPad mini started getting warm while browsing the web lately, but she hasn’t noticed it with her phone.
I have not had any issues, besides the inital transferring everything to the phone. I did the iCloud backup/restore and while that was running on both cellular/Wifi the phone did get warm, but I also even had it plugged in and never got any overtemp alerts. I also just came from an airshow in SoCal where is was 80F+ using the camera, streaming (for daughter), and being out in the sun and no temp warnings or anything. Not sure what everyone is doing, but it certainly just by the comments posted seems to be a hit or miss
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This is unacceptable from Apple the last year‘s phone does the same they need cooling systems in their phones how do they expect to AAA game when they can’t handle small loads for $1 trillion company this is unacceptable. What’s gonna happen now is there just gonna underclock the chip and lower the performance to get away with it?
No issues here with over heating, iPhone 15 Pro Max. Love this baby…light, fast and good battery life. No over heating or other issues so far.. Hopefully isolated to a few units. I know what it’s like to get a Bad Apple ..🍎✌🏻
That and a heated windshield ice scrapper for us northern folk.
They made thermal compromises and they are going to release console quality video games on it? Oh boy, let see how this turns out...
Should have known, Apple has historically been terrible with thermal design.
Same here. I don't have overheating issues.
I’m sorry but don’t they put these phones thru a year or so of testing before it’s released ?
This smells foul.
This smells foul.
The issue is also "a small subset" can still be millions of customers when they're moving tens of millions of devices, which is unfortunate.
Not experiencing this but it does get very slightly warm when charging with 20w adapter and barely feel it with the FineWoven case.
I think people are using those higher watts adapters while using their phone during the setup (restore, redownload apps, resync with iCloud, indexing etc) that cause it get real hot. Fast charge, increase CPU load, active using the phone make reasonable sense it will get hot.
I think people are using those higher watts adapters while using their phone during the setup (restore, redownload apps, resync with iCloud, indexing etc) that cause it get real hot. Fast charge, increase CPU load, active using the phone make reasonable sense it will get hot.
I have a 15 Pro Max. And just like the 14 Pro Max before it, it did get extremely hot during the original setup of the phone. It was moving a lot of data as it was being copied from the older phone. So far day to day, the 15 hasn't got hot. Just my experience.
Do people really want to play AAA games on their iPhones? I don't say this as a defense of poor design choices, it just seems to me that gamers don't want to play these types of games on phones.