New iPhone 16 Thermal Design High on Buyers' Wishlist, Survey Suggests

[ab2c4]

Rounded sides is the top thing on my wish list. I know that won't be coming this year sadly.

 

[Rychiar]

never heard a real world person complain. just these articles

 

[matsan]

Happy to be an iPhone 13 user if the “modern” phones have this kind of problems!

 

[bigjnyc]

Nah, the 15PM is a piece of garbage compared to a 13M. I dare you to use the 13M for a day, you won't go back

lol no thanks, that crappy entry level phone with a tiny unusable screen is for peasants. No self-respecting adult with normal sized hands should be caught dead with that thing.

 

[nottorp]

Why should Apple invest in R&D and tooling for 12% of the customers (half of which won’t walk their talk anyway), when 88% are more or less satisfied with the bigger sizes?

Apple had a mini iPhone for two seasons - and it sold poorly. Why repeat such a mistake?

12% of the customers is almost 30 million iphones though, so Apple are just *******s.

And what you don't see is people like my wife who refuses to upgrade her iphone mini right now because she has a tablet and doesn't need another one in her purse...

 

[orev]

26.8% of users hoping for better thermal performance to prevent overheating issues

Did they ask how many of those people put a case on their phone? Because a case is directly insulating all possibilities of cooling and keeping the heat inside the phone. They could add full liquid cooling and if you then wrapped the whole thing in fiberglass it wouldn't help at all.

82.1% of respondents expressed willingness to wait up to a month after release for the AI features to be fully implemented

Which means there's essentially no interest in this feature. If everyone is "willing to wait", it means they don't care about it. If people wanted it, the phrase would be "I can't wait for it!"

I want faster charging. It shouldn’t take 2 hours for my phone to go from 83% to 100%. If I don’t use a fast charger, my phone literally loses power while it is on a normal charger. I have to wake up at 4 in the morning to go downstairs to my fast charger to make sure I have a full battery to last me through most of the day before I leave the house??

If your phone is "literally losing power" while sitting on the charger, something is seriously wrong with it or the charger you're using. If you don't want the phone to stop charging at 80%, turn off Optimized Battery Charging. It's doing what you set it to do.

It’s interesting that 33% say that “the iPhones are now
getting too big to handle and hold” and an additional 12% say they are “waiting for a new compact model to be launched”. If this is reasonably accurate, there’s some hope that Apple will eventually listen to it.

They already tried that when they brought back the Mini once before, and all the reviews killed its chances by whining about how the battery life is less than the Max. Of course it will be less than the Max, because most of the inside of the phone is battery.

 

[danny1305]

I've never had an issue with overheating.

Ummmm…ok

 

[Neodym]

From the numbers I quoted, it’s actually 50% who say that phones are getting too big.

„Getting too big“ does not necessarily imply that they already reached the threshold. Apple likes to test how far they can go.

 

[Neodym]

That's interesting. I live somewhere where it's regularly at or over those temperatures during the day for 6 - 7 months of the year and haven't seen any sluggishness unless my phone is in direct sunlight. I currently have a 13 Pro but owned a 12 Pro and other models before and none had thermal issues except in direct sunlight.

My 13PM before also never showed such behavior. Maybe it’s (partly) related to the (official) plastic case I’m using after Apple took away the leather cases.

 

[JosephAW]

Would rather have an option to slow down the CPU to cool off iPhone instead of dimming the screen. Nothing is more annoying than not being able to see your screen outside when it dims over 50%

 

[Reeneman]

We need a more fancy marketing term for the thermal design and cooling like „Vapor chamber“ as found in the Xbox series.
More marketing than efficiency is the priority.

 

[StuBeck]

I've never had an issue with overheating.

I've had one or two problems, when its been in the direct sunlight. This isn't going to fix that.

 

[brofkand]

You're right, but even when I use that brick it doesn't take 2 hours to go from 83% to 100%))

Never let facts get in the way of a good rant.

 

[Reeneman]

Would rather have an option to slow down the CPU to cool off iPhone instead of dimming the screen. Nothing is more annoying than not being able to see your screen outside when it dims over 50%

The temperature is due to the screen outside and not the cpu in most cases, depending on what you do of course.

 

[brofkand]

We need a more fancy marketing term for the thermal design and cooling like „Vapor chamber“ as found in the Xbox series.
More marketing than efficiency is the priority.

ProVapor

(actually, that might not work - I think there's prior art there - probably a vape shop in Albuquerque).

 

[JosephAW]

54% want a larger iPhone? This could easily be resolved by enabling cellular iPad mini devices to have a phone and messaging app.

 

[now i see it]

A better heat sink won’t save your hand from getting scorched while playing games. It will just conduct the heat more efficiently to your hand. Heat has got to go somewhere.

The problem with the Hot 15s isn’t the heat sink design, it’s the overheating SOC

 

[alexandr]

Never let facts get in the way of a good rant.

You're right, what was I thinking?))

 

[unchecked]

Really surprising so many people care about this, maybe it’s more relevant to gamers and users of other resource-intensive apps?

Or just generally more people are playing games like Monopoly Go on their phones.

 

[segfaultdotorg]

Liquid cooling strong enough to turn magma into ice. They're calling it iCool.

 

[vegetassj4]

Rumored new iPhone thermal design.

Aug 20, 2024

iPhone 16 is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five liters ahead of any other mobile phone," said Tim Apple,CEO. "We are all born with the need for hydration-and iPhone uses its' revolutionary cooling system to create the most hydrating user interface since Gatorade.

 

[turbineseaplane]

lmao

I can't imagine anyone having "new thermal design" on their new phone wishlist

 

[Kylo83]

I’m on YouTube now and the screen dimmed and 15 pro max is red hot

 

[AndyUnderscoreR]

Well... overheating can affect battery life quite a bit.

Exactly. My main complaint with the iPhone is that it overheats a lot, and that leads to low battery life. The last 2 times I've bought a new iPhone it was because battery degradation meant the old one couldn't survive for more than an hour or two without being connected to a charger, rather than the lure of new features.

 

[Marty80]

Hanging onto my 12 pro max for as long as I can, until Cook is brave enough to change the design.