Exactly this. Apple, known for its innovative leadership, used 1 drop of water in the vapor chamber. They could increase thermal performance if they added a second drop of water in the vapor chamber.How do you know the chamber won’t eventually run out of liquid to vaporize?
They did the same with Airpods Pro 3. They claim the ANC improved 2 x times.
That FLIR image is the measurement. Sadly there’s no actual temperature number in that image but iPhone Air clearly shows a hot spot right around where battery connector is. iPhone 17 also have a relatively warm area though I have no idea what internal layout of iPhone 17 looks like.
The OP comment really does not make any sense. Certainly someone trying to make an iPhone Air into an iPhone Pro may regret their decision, but it is more likely that most folks buying Airs will use them as iPhone airs and not as iPhone pros. Airs should not be problematic unless an iPhone Air is pushed overly hard.
Wow. Y'all need some science/engineering studies. Badly. The function of a vapor chamber is to transfer heat on an ongoing basis. A vapor chamber is not some simple heat sink that absorbs a finite amount of heat and is then full. Not even remotely.
Bingo. It dissipates heat at a faster rate on going. Sure you can get it to be saturated and throttle but it will still cool down faster than without the chamber. Basic thermal physics, like you said.
Such FLIR images are mostly just visual click bait. Any electronic device like a smart phone will of course show uneven temperature readings across the device surface.
Yup, my Air never even warms up - never game on it, never social media, never design 3D design renderings, etc...
Depends on how uneven it is and how those heated areas are felt from touch. Whether the FLIR image is for click bait or not, people using iPhone Air will feel the temperature. It is another matter whether such temperature worries them or not though.
Yeah, such usage will never cause iPhone Air to overheat, hence no problem whatsoever.
Yes, the hotspot is a problem for previous iPhones. I can clearly feel the hotspot on my iPhone 16 pro max when just reading manga sometimes. iPhone Air doesn’t have that Vapor chamber thing so people naturally worry more about its thermal than iPhone 17 Pro Max.
Yeah, the posturing this year is kinda weird tbh. Lots of people justifying their purchases and trying to put down the other phones in the process.
It's ridiculous that reading a manga heats your phone. I've been watching OnlyFans on iPhone for years. For some reason it always heated up during iOS16. It caused a reduction of battery healthy by 7% in 6 months.
People are likely reading manga for long periods of time though. Only fans is probably in 2 minute spurts. 🤣
MacRumors slowly becomes Reddit. I see too many instances of „likely”, „supposedly”, „seems like” these days. The whole discourse turns to nothing, really.
Which components specifically? Why would anything slow down in 2 months as you say?
