Starting to think people need to just give their phone a little rest here and there throughout the day. I never have heat issues unless I am in direct sunlight, and there is not much you can do about that.
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New iPhone 16 Thermal Design High on Buyers' Wishlist, Survey Suggests
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Stepping back and wondering what should be improved on iPhone technical design, thermal improvement is probably not a bad idea. All iPhone since the first ones are suffering from screen dimming in the summer. Charge rate but especially Magsafe are inherently limited by current thermal design. Battery lifespan is probably greatly affected by day to day thermal fluctuations...
Addressing thermal issues could improve several parts of the iPhone user experience in a single shot. Apple could propose something smart and over-engineered around this (and give it a special Apple name). I'm digging it.
Addressing thermal issues could improve several parts of the iPhone user experience in a single shot. Apple could propose something smart and over-engineered around this (and give it a special Apple name). I'm digging it.
Yea, I hate that. Sometimes my phone puts charging on hold due to heat issues. But yea, it's not good.
If some computing device has thermal overload, there are 2 possibilities:
1: Too much or unnecessary computing pressure -> bad OS design
2: Bad heat sinking techniques -> poor thermal design
Both should be considered/optimized before a product is released - though...
1: Too much or unnecessary computing pressure -> bad OS design
2: Bad heat sinking techniques -> poor thermal design
Both should be considered/optimized before a product is released - though...
Odd, I'm starting to think that Apple needs to improve their phones thermal design so people don't need to "give their phone a little rest here and there throughout the day", especially considering iPhones are sold without a need for "a little rest here and there throughout the day" being mentioned at any point in the purchasing process.
Only 26.8% of respondents checked a box for thermal design. It likely wasn’t a highly selected choice, but it was cherry picked by Macrumors for this article to use as click bate to get folks to comment angrily.
This article just reinforces that this is going to be one of the softest iPhone updates in recent memory. "Better thermal design" and what, better cameras?
Complete yawn.
My iPhone 14 Pro is going to soldier on for another year it seems, this new phone looks to be pretty much the same product with some very minimal improvements.
Complete yawn.
My iPhone 14 Pro is going to soldier on for another year it seems, this new phone looks to be pretty much the same product with some very minimal improvements.
I am outside at the beach quite a bt and it always chaps my ass to have my 12PM dim itself while I am already struggling to see it. Will this new design help with that aspect of overheating?
CPU improvements also lead to Efficiency improvements, which lead to things like longer battery life and better thermal performance.
Just saying, the actual speed improvements of newer CPUs and GPUs are rarely the primary reason for choosing them. For instance, the M4, despite being in a significantly thinner and more thermally constrained design, efficiently performs tasks while consuming less power compared to the M2 in the previous iPad.
Furthermore, a newer processor doesn’t necessarily imply a larger battery. We’ve witnessed Apple shrinking batteries even with newer processors in the past.
This is according to a poll done by some independent outfit. The only votes that Apple cares about are the people that vote with their dollars. The small iPhone experiment was tried already and abandoned. Not enough “votes“ to keep it going.
So from a survey of people looking to sell their phones, when asked a leading question about thermals, they replied yes that's a concern? Great sampling.
I was thinking the same thing. The respondents must not have been a statistically varied sample.
Yep!
I have two SE1s in my daily rotation (bedside and gym) and my main phone is a 13 Mini
I do, but I live at the beach half the year and probably spend 4-6 hours in the sand every day. Those Pokemon aren't going to catch themselves.
It’s always a cycle of the obsession with thinness, then having to revert due to some design flaw or too little battery life. Apple doesn’t seem to learn from past mistakes. My favorite example of this was the 2013 Mac Pro repeating the same mistake of the G4 Cube 13 years before, and the outcome was exactly as could have been predicted.
1 step forward, 2 steps back.
I genuinely despise the notion that it's acceptable for the latest-and-greatest iPhone to perform worse on any parameter compared to previous iPhones.
I don't care whether it's the display, SoC, wireless radios, or AOD, or any other aspect -If upgrading or changing any spec or design choice in an iPhone leads to worse performance in any regard then it must not ship in the final product!
And if it's any single or group of apps in the App Store that causes this overheating, and not Apple's fault, then those apps must be taken down until fixed (yes, Apple has both data from the App Store and customers complaining. They don't have an excuse.)
If iPhones 14 Pro and 15 Pro genuinely have unfixable overheating issues then Apple needs to take them back or at a minimum compensate owners.
An overheating smartphone is neither "the best iPhone ever" or one with the World's most efficient SoC.
Shame on Apple if 14 Pro and 15 Pro owners are genuinely upgrading to escape overheating issues.
I genuinely despise the notion that it's acceptable for the latest-and-greatest iPhone to perform worse on any parameter compared to previous iPhones.
I don't care whether it's the display, SoC, wireless radios, or AOD, or any other aspect -If upgrading or changing any spec or design choice in an iPhone leads to worse performance in any regard then it must not ship in the final product!
And if it's any single or group of apps in the App Store that causes this overheating, and not Apple's fault, then those apps must be taken down until fixed (yes, Apple has both data from the App Store and customers complaining. They don't have an excuse.)
If iPhones 14 Pro and 15 Pro genuinely have unfixable overheating issues then Apple needs to take them back or at a minimum compensate owners.
An overheating smartphone is neither "the best iPhone ever" or one with the World's most efficient SoC.
Shame on Apple if 14 Pro and 15 Pro owners are genuinely upgrading to escape overheating issues.
One of my biggest issues either 15 pro max is the overheating with wireless charging. Using it for car play and it shuts down for 10 minutes because of it makes it almost useless in the car.
It'd sure be nice if I could sit outside, in the shade, on a hot day without my display dimming to the point of barely being able to see it.
Yep fanboys wil be fanboys and critics will be critics. Right? However I find thermal
Management to be a significant issue in people’s mind is hilarious.
That is fair, but there isn't much you can do about the sun over heating your device.I do, but I live at the beach half the year and probably spend 4-6 hours in the sand every day. Those Pokemon aren't going to catch themselves.