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…

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    1 year ago

    46c… lmfao what a stupid headline.

    That is absolutely NOT “hot”or “overheating” for a piece of tech under stress.

    The phone housing is the heat sync, and the phone is more powerful than many people’s few year old laptops.

    Not to defend apple but this is just trying to sensationalise and farm clicks, my pixel 7 used to get way hotter doing just normal tasks to the point I was getting overheat warnings and the screen would shut off.

    Now if it was more like 55c I could see that being an issue at least from a comfort standpoint.

    On top of this, pointing a thermal camera as an emissive surface like glass… not the most accurate way to actually get a temperature reading, they should have used a thermal couple… but I’m guessing that would have showed an even less exciting click bait number.

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      1 year ago

      I get where you’re coming from, but just because it isn’t hot when compared to a full throttle desktop CPU doesn’t mean it’s good for a device you hold with your bare hands.

      Can you name one other thing in everyday life that you hold for hours on end, that gets 45+°C?

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      Actually it can pose quite a big problem. There’s no ventilation on phone anywhere and lithium batteries really don’t like heat, at all. In fact that’s just at the top maximum battery can take, so there’s a big chance of thermal runaway at which point whole thing might combust.

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        Lithium batteries aren’t going to thermal runaway at 46ºc.

        Edit: I looked it up. it’s ~66º, so maybe closer for comfort that one would like.

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          1 year ago

          Yup. Not that far from recorded temps. Combine that with leaving phone in car or in direct sunlight and you enter dangerous zone.

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            1 year ago

            iirc iphones at least turn off if overheating so they might just be fine in that regard. sucks to get to your phone in the other room and find it turned off tho ig.

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              1 year ago

              Those situations are best avoided. Fail safes are there to prevent catastrophic failure, but heat does affect things permanently. Your battery life will take a big hit. CPU might not like it, etc.

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      1 year ago

      Please take that common sense elsewhere. Here we don’t defend Apple since this is a general technology community. You are supposed to hate them no matter what. Only if this happens to an Android device, we try our best to understand.