Widespread reports are circulating about the iPhone 15 overheating, seemingly across all models. Measurements taken with an infrared camera show...

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…

  • Kumabear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7833·
    2 years 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.

      • time_lord@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 years ago

        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.

    • Ankkuli@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years 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.

    • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      How long do you figure it’ll take them to make a phone that triggers nuclear fusion? Asking for a friend.

  • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    134·
    2 years ago

    This is a massive problem. It’s not ok for a device which millions of people use to get so hot. This could cause a fire given the right conditions.

    I hope this gets reported on the mainstream news so people realise Apple isn’t so great after all.

    This is by far not the first time they’ve had hardware issues with their products. I think hardware is their Achilles heel.

    Not that I feel sorry for them considering how much they fleece customers on the prices for the devices, repairs, accessories, the amount of times they tell you to get a whole new Mac when all it needs is 1 part etc.

    • quaddo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      This could cause a fire given the right conditions.

      Something tells me it could also cause a fire given the wrong conditions.

      (sorry yeah I’ll see myself out)

    • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      Apples hardware is one of their strengths. By far the best in class in mosts categories they compete in.

      • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        63·
        2 years ago

        You might want to ask Lou Rossman about that, he would beg to differ.

        I remember well when I was an apple fan that the unwritten rule was “never buy gen 1 of apple devices because they will have issues. Always wait for gen 2”

        The issues with their laptops, especially the main board, is legendary. Then there’s bendgate, antennagate, the cracking of the cases of the white macbooks (which I had) etc

        Not a stellar record. Whereas typically we don’t see these issues on PC’s and Android phones. The only big one was the exploding Samsung Note 7, but Samsung recalled them all and cancelled the phone. Unlike Apple who said “you’re holding it wrong” when their antenna design was the real problem.

        • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Many laptop manufactures have terrible hinges, power connectors that break and terrible keyboards. The difference is volume of a single design and media pick up of the issues.

  • moitoi@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Apple is leveling up at each new phone. iPhone are average with a premium price.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’m sure this will likely get addressed shortly with a software update. Curious to see if they throttle the CPU / slow charging a bit.

    IMHO, this is always the risk you run with day one hardware and software. Early adopters can get burned. In this case both figuratively and literally.

    That said, I’ve been hitting some 15 pros pretty hard and I haven’t noticed any heat issues.

      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        As someone in product development, I can attest to some stuff just not showing up until you throw millions of end users at something. You can try your damnedest to simulate real world usage and have all sorts of automated test, but the real world and real users alway find something. You just hope the something is small and patchable.

  • pavnilschanda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    2 years ago

    This reminds me of the Samsung Phone incident… not as bad as that but it’s just something that popped up in my mind.

  • Boggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    2 years ago

    If it’s not uncomfortable to hold or triggers the built in heat warning then you are fine. This isn’t a gameboy in the Kuwait sun.

  • mvirts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1147·
    2 years ago

    Oh no 116f, like seriously guys this will melt the Popsicle in my pocket