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Man, I use the hotspot function of my iPhone all the time and never have heat issues. I wonder why?
by ubermonkey 7y ago
Man, I use the hotspot function of my iPhone all the time and never have heat issues. I wonder why?
- tw04 7y agoProbably a combination of what surface you have it sitting on and which case you use (if any).
- freehunter 7y agoAnd ambient temperature and air movement. Anything that impacts heat dissipation. I was in Phoenix AZ last week when it was 115F and my phone’s hotspot shut down because the phone got too hot.
- ubermonkey 7y agoYou were outside? I mean...
- freehunter 7y agoNot exactly outside, but in a building without air conditioning yes. Yes it was awful.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoProbably because you're close to whatever tower it's connecting to and the radio bits are not having to spend a bunch of energy screaming at the top of their lungs to be heard by the tower. Even plastic clad android phones will get hot if you try and make a long phone call from BFE.
- ce4 7y agoalso the Mac may detect it as a metered mobile connection and defer/throttle background usage (updates, etc).