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Kuo: iPhone 15 Pro Overheating Issues Likely Due to Thermal Compromises, Not 3nm Node
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Hot Pockets! 🎶 Joke aside, maybe moving Titanium wasn’t the best move. I noticed the demo units were quite warm when I was playing with them.
Nothing different than what I have always done on my 14 Pro.
-Phone on dash mount showing turn by turn directions and pluged into carplay interface with a AC vent blasting the back of the phone. Screen shuts off and warns screen will not stay on until phone cools down. Charging is disabled until phone cools down. Carplay is A to C so not rapid charging in any way. Carplay itself has been disconnecting mid-phone call which may or may not be related as well.
-Phone charging Type C in a room that's 68 Degrees. Charging disabled until phone cools down. C to C charging.
-Phone charging on a magnetic dock that's not a rapid wireless charger. Charging disabled until phone cools down.
-Phone hooked up to a power bank on a hike Type C to C. Charging disabled until phone cools down.
All scenarios that I charged my 14 Pro just fine. Cables were replaced with Type C versions replacing lightning but nothing else changed. I have the same case on my 15 Pro as my 14 Pro.
Saying there isn't a problem is a joke. I throw my phone on a charger take a shower grab my phone to go out and my phone didn't charge/barely charged.
EDIT: Can't make this stuff up I am sitting here at my desk in air-conditioning and a tower fan blowing on me/my phone and it's not charging. Image attached.
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Dunno why you’re getting laughed it , this is apple’s legacy , their signature even
And, as has been mentioned, because the sheer numbers of devices Apple sells, even an issue that only affects 0.04% of users is still going to be a large number of people affected.
There's no 'overheating'.
There's only warming under load.
Which is exactly what we should expect from a 3.7ghz CPU in the palm of your hand.
Did you read the report? This is a thermal design problem, not a processor dissipation problem. All processors dissipate. a Good thermal design keeps them cool. With a poor thermal design, they overheat. While processors can be throttled to lower temperature, so too can a better thermal design. Thermal design is not multivariate.
This is most likely a rogue process that’s running at 100% CPU when it shouldn’t. They will fix it with a software update, and no that doesn’t mean throttling.
It’s crazy to suggest that the thermal design is compromised - these designs are tested to destruction for years (yes, the 15 was probably in design 2 years ago). The software however is only locked down in the weeks before the launch.
It’s crazy to suggest that the thermal design is compromised - these designs are tested to destruction for years (yes, the 15 was probably in design 2 years ago). The software however is only locked down in the weeks before the launch.
I must have gotten lucky. My iPhone 15 Pro has been running incredibly cool since I transferred 300 GB of data to it, even during a long phone call with a weak signal, where my iPhone 14 Pro would have warmed up a lot.
I suspect many of these reports may simply be related to people restoring their data and setting up their iPhone for the first time. With a large photos library, that process can take a few days to fully complete, index all files, and clean up after itself.
Right now, I’m thinking this ends up being a total non-issue. Am interested to see in-depth testing though.
I suspect many of these reports may simply be related to people restoring their data and setting up their iPhone for the first time. With a large photos library, that process can take a few days to fully complete, index all files, and clean up after itself.
Right now, I’m thinking this ends up being a total non-issue. Am interested to see in-depth testing though.
Apple is in a very sad, pathetic era.
They just released the “best phone they have ever made” which is a iPhone 12 Sss and they will have to neuter it due to being cheap, misguided, and unable to bring new things to market other than processor speed.
Good news is that once they cut the power to the chip they will tip the scales on being carbon neutral.
They just released the “best phone they have ever made” which is a iPhone 12 Sss and they will have to neuter it due to being cheap, misguided, and unable to bring new things to market other than processor speed.
Good news is that once they cut the power to the chip they will tip the scales on being carbon neutral.
So, it looks like we have issues with the latest 2 generations of the iPhone Pros:
- 14 Pro/Pro Max - battery health issues
- 15 Pro/Pro Max - overheating issues
Less mass, more heat per gram.
Physics in action, and Thermodynamics in particular.
That's a price of any lighter device.
Physics in action, and Thermodynamics in particular.
That's a price of any lighter device.
It will be a one liner in the release notes, if even that.
It does seem to be a software issue but they are also using a new case design and material. I am glad I didn’t rush out to order the new phone, gonna wait and see what happens here.
Not experienced any excessive heat with my Pro Max. Not experiencing the “blotch” on the band either.
Guess I’m just lucky.
Only time it gets warm is when charging, which is “same old same old” really.
Guess I’m just lucky.
Only time it gets warm is when charging, which is “same old same old” really.
To have Kuo make a comment is stark. Kuo is some what well soruced and to say they can not fix it is not good. So they have chips they accepted they should not have accepted so it is a chip lottery, so they will do a silent recall where they tell you to bring in your phone if it is doing this and just replace yours with a binned unit and silently make it go away over a few months.... great work apple..... not
After reading this I have my doubts on the proposed root cause. What I am seeing in a number of articles / posts / comments portrays this issue as more than just the Pro models.
9to5mac.com
I have a 13PM and with iOS17, saw this off and on throughout the betas, my device (even my newer iPad Pro 11 gen4) would get very warm/hot around the volume buttons and camera assembly during use.
Be interesting to see the real cause.
iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F
Widespread reports are circulating about the iPhone 15 overheating, seemingly across all models. Measurements taken with an infrared camera show...
9to5mac.com
I have a 13PM and with iOS17, saw this off and on throughout the betas, my device (even my newer iPad Pro 11 gen4) would get very warm/hot around the volume buttons and camera assembly during use.
Be interesting to see the real cause.
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My 15 Pro Max got quite warm (not too hot to touch by any means) when it was downloading a ton of apps that I'd migrated from my 12 Pro. It's been fine since, including while MagSafe charging. If this is more of a problem for some use cases, it'd be hard to believe Apple didn't encounter it during design and testing.
I’m actually looking forward that, especially on my snowboarding trips 😂
Wonder what apple is going to do with this situation 🤔