iPhone 15 Pro Owners Complain About Overheating Problems (wsj.com) 46
The new iPhone 15 Pro may be too hot for some to handle. Literally. WSJ: Apple's priciest new iPhones are heating up in some scenarios, reaching high temperatures that make them difficult to touch at certain times, according to reviews, tests by The Wall Street Journal and social-media posts from buyers in China, the U.S. and Canada. Some iPhone 14 Pro owners have noticed similar hot temperatures over the past year. The high temperatures in Apple's newest 15 Pro models -- typically when charging and using intensive apps -- are prompting concerns that the company might need to address overheating in software updates that could impact performance. Premium iPhones have long been a critical cash cow for Apple as smartphone demand has slumped globally.
The company is hoping the iPhone 15, especially its Pro models, will return its business to growth. Thomas Galvin, a 23-year-old from Cleveland, says his iPhone 15 Pro Max has been "super hot" and that he is considering returning it. Apple customer support told him the heat was a result of setting up the new phone, but even a few days later, it is still "way worse than the iPhone 13 Pro Max," he said. Other users on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Reddit have had similar complaints about the heat, with some mentioning that the phone had become so warm it is difficult to hold. The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern noted in her review last week that the iPhone 15 Pro Max hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit while charging. In further testing, the phone reached temperatures up to 112 degrees when simultaneously charging and doing processor-intensive tasks, such as gaming.
The company is hoping the iPhone 15, especially its Pro models, will return its business to growth. Thomas Galvin, a 23-year-old from Cleveland, says his iPhone 15 Pro Max has been "super hot" and that he is considering returning it. Apple customer support told him the heat was a result of setting up the new phone, but even a few days later, it is still "way worse than the iPhone 13 Pro Max," he said. Other users on X (formerly known as Twitter) and Reddit have had similar complaints about the heat, with some mentioning that the phone had become so warm it is difficult to hold. The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern noted in her review last week that the iPhone 15 Pro Max hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit while charging. In further testing, the phone reached temperatures up to 112 degrees when simultaneously charging and doing processor-intensive tasks, such as gaming.
User error (Score:5, Funny)
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But, as the old saying goes, if you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Re:User error (Score:5, Funny)
(it is an oven mitt)
Canadian Version (Score:2)
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It's only acceptable to tell Android owners they are holding it wrong
Dupe (Score:3)
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You are reading it wrong.
First article was a question - they were not sure if it's overheating. Now they are definitely sure it is overheating.
You know... (Score:1)
"iPhone 15 Pro Owners Complain About Overheating Problems"
Maybe they're getting too excited about their silly phones.
Over saturated market (Score:2)
The company is hoping the iPhone 15, especially its Pro models, will return its business to growth
Yes. The way to fix an industry that is overly saturated with consumers having less capital to purchase these ever increasing devices, is to put more of the expensive things into that industry.
Super smart thinking.
But in reality, there's folks who buy it for the status symbol. But that market is going the way of the old Mac Pro, becoming ever so niche. There's just too much being pumped into the iPhone Pro market with the "every year" release, that the "status symbol" appeal of the device wears thin. An
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All that said, I still don't recommend Apple products. For sake of not wanting to flame anyone, I'll just chalk it up as "matter of opinion". I personally do not recommend Apple products.
You obviously aren't user facing, lol. Even when I personally disliked Apple products I still recommended them. Better to have Mom using an iPhone than become Mom's personal unpaid 24/7 on call Tier 1 through 3 tech support bitch. :P
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My Mom finds both confusing. Apple's support is better though. That's the killer app between the two. I'm still her Tier 3 bitch but the Tier 1/2 stuff gets triaged by Apple frontline support.
Not looking forward to the $1,000+ I'm gonna have to drop next year to replace her 8+ now that software updates for it have ended though, if that makes you feel any better, lol
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As for buying a new phone - both my parents and I have used phones even without updat
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Even when I personally disliked Apple products I still recommended them.
Cool. For me it's a bit more than just a personal dislike but I don't really care to elaborate to random people on the Internet who ultimately don't give a fuck, so you do you.
Re: Over saturated market (Score:3)
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How hot did your phone get posting all of that?
Re:Over saturated market (Score:5, Insightful)
I have serious doubt that Apple hedges big on the Pro iPhones. The vast majority of money comes from their 30% App store sales. And they don't really have to anything for that. The phones are likely a nice bump in profits, but Apple hardly relies on their hardware at this point. That's like saying razor blade makers really get focused on the price of plastic for their handles. I mean they care because those handles are how they get razors out, but the razors are what they would care most about if there was something that halted their production. Apple cares about the phones, but they care about them about as much as they are a device for delivering people to their App store.
That sounded wrong to me, and it actually is wrong [fourweekmba.com].
Apple gets about two and a half times as much revenue from the iPhone as it gets from Services, which include iCloud, Apple Music and TV, and App Store revenue.
Services have been going up as a fraction of total revenue, but Apple is still primarily a hardware company - the App Store is probably less than 10% of revenue.
Re: Over saturated market (Score:2)
per my Apple-serf friends (Score:1)
...they're being told by Apple "experts" that these sort of heating issues only come from using non-Apple USB-c cords.
Surely, they can't be trying to convince people that Apple USB-c cords are somehow special and should be purchased instead?
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Maybe the AliExpress cables don't properly negotiate power?
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TFA is stupid. There probably is some sort of issue in software that will be resolved (side note, this is why I still haven't upgraded my 13 Pro to iOS 17), regardless:
"The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern noted in her review last week that the iPhone 15 Pro Max hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit while charging"
Practically every phone I've ever owned, even pre-smartphone era flip phones, hits that temperature or close to it while charging. No battery charges with 100% efficiency and the difference becomes he
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My Android certainly heats up when doing all three... but nowhere near 106-112F - especially to the touch. It's not just bad software. It's bad hardware. A phone should never hit those temps on their own. Ever. End of story.
You think this is mostly normal, but I assure you it is not, nor should it be.
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I don't think it's normal. You might note that I twice said there's probably a software bug. I highly doubt it's bad hardware design. You think Apple's engineering teams suddenly forgot how to design for thermal dissipation after all the proceeding iPhones without this issue? Did you catch the bit that reported users of the iPhone 14 Pro experiencing the issue after a year on the market without problems?
This is the usual "woe is me, I'm living on the bleeding edge of tech and all the bugs weren't worke
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You think Apple's engineering teams suddenly forgot how to design for thermal dissipation after all the proceeding iPhones without this issue?
I say this as someone who just bought an iPhone 15 Pro to replace his iPhone 12 (which replaced an iphone which replaced an iphone etc back to the iPhone 4) but let's not forget Apple's engineering teams also built a phone where literally holding it affected the antenna signal quality [wikipedia.org]. They are not immune from poor design decisions.
But I agree with your conclusion, I assume it's just a software thing they will fix. Add some additional throttling while charging, whatever, I don't know. Surprised they d
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Apple's engineering team aren't some magical, special geniuses - no matter how hard they try to brand them that way. Jony Ive was the closest they ever got, but he was design (of the whole) focused, not solution focused. In fact, I would say the average Apple engineer is actually pretty subpar. Not a single thing from Apple has felt new, fresh, innovative, or unique in any way for a long time. All their products look similar. Their features are boring.
I love bleeding edge stuff, but that's why I stick with
Re: per my Apple-serf friends (Score:2)
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...they're being told by Apple "experts" that these sort of heating issues only come from using non-Apple USB-c cords.
Surely, they can't be trying to convince people that Apple USB-c cords are somehow special and should be purchased instead?
Or this is Apple's way of going "This never would have happened with Lightning cables. Fuck You, EU".
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You mean like having a comment critical of Apple modded down to 0 despite a dozen generally-constructive comments? Like that? :)
I admit, I did NOT expect Applecultism on Slashdot.
This article ... (Score:5, Funny)
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Hello, flame.
Same Apple, Same form over function (Score:2)
This is by design (Score:1)
I have a quiz for Apple fanboys:
Which of the 15 i
Software update will correct the issue (Score:1)
Time to upgrade! (Score:2)
Just Steve Jobs' way of reminding them to upgrade to the iPhone 16 Pro.
This is a serious issue! (Score:2)
It'd be all too easy to dismiss this as hysteria, given that we've known for 20 years that mobile devices can get warm when pushed. But, we're not talking just warm here... We're talking a few degrees warmer than a high fever! Seriously, have you ever touched the forehead of a sick relative? No? Good. You'd have third degree burns if you were so reckless. I have more thoughts I'd share, but I have to hop in my car that's been sitting in the post-summer sun here in the deep south. Until the A/C gets going, t
Re: This is a serious issue! (Score:1)
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It'd be all too easy to dismiss this as hysteria, given that we've known for 20 years that mobile devices can get warm when pushed. But, we're not talking just warm here... We're talking a few degrees warmer than a high fever! Seriously, have you ever touched the forehead of a sick relative? No? Good. You'd have third degree burns if you were so reckless. I have more thoughts I'd share, but I have to hop in my car that's been sitting in the post-summer sun here in the deep south. Until the A/C gets going, the black leather interior shouldn't be any warmer than, say, an iPhone 15 and half.
Third Degree Burns: Charred Skin. From touching the forehead of a fevered human?
Only if they were suffering from Spontaneous Human Combustion!
I hope "you're" an AI; otherwise, that has to be the most stupid Comment a Meatsack has ever Posted on Slashdot.
Or did I miss the Sarcasm Tag?