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Users report iPhone 15 is overheating
- traveler01 3y agoDamn even in that Apple is copying Samsung...
- switch007 3y ago13 was solid AIUI, 14 had and still has battery issues and 15 runs hot and possibly battery issues too? Let’s play iPhone defect excuse bingo: - it’s just indexing data it will be ok after a week/month.
- solarmist 3y agoIndexing is a bitch for battery and heat, even on macOS.
- ls612 3y agoMy 13 Pro Max is basically perfect tbh. I won’t be upgrading until we get a complete screen iPhone with no notch or pill.
- johng 3y agoI have a 13 Pro Max as well and I've had no issues with it. The battery is certainly not as good as it used to be... I'd say its about about 80%. Only issue though, not even thinking about upgrading. Edit: Battery efficiency says it's at 87%... feels about 80 though /shrug.
- izend 3y agoJust buy a new battery when you drop below 80%
- NikkiA 3y ago"You're using it wrong, it's designed to be used within an Apple™ brand Reality Bubble™, which naturally run cooler than the ambient temperature"
- CountGeek 3y agoIndexing what - photos?
- sigilis 3y agoIt needs to identify each dog in your photos library to put them in their own album and figure out which dogs or people to suggest for the photo widget. Which is to say it’s not unimaginable that photo indexing is part of it.
- switch007 3y agoIf so it’s a ridiculous trade off to make. Someone spending $1000-2000 doesn’t want a hot draining phone just so they can search “dog” in their photo album on day 1 or 2. They should throttle it - much better to tell the user the feature isn’t ready yet or something. Or you know, give the user the choice of running that feature fast or slow - but that would be anathema to Apple. Ps I am an Apple fan boi. Own lots of Apple devices
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y agoIndexing _everything_.
- mort96 3y agoI mean is it wrong? It seems plausible to me: we know it does a lot of stuff in the background to make photos searchable, and afaik that's not really synced. When a phone is suddenly logged into iCloud and has tens of thousands of photos available, is it that implausible that it'd run hot for a while as it analyzes photos? Not trying to excuse anything here, if you can provide a reason to believe it's not caused by those background processes I'm completely fine with the explanation that iOS is just buggy or the hardware has heat issues. Frankly the behavior does sound pretty bad even if it's "just" the photo analysis thing, the obvious solution would be to 1) make the analysis sync with the photos, and 2) make the background processing slow enough to not notably increase heat/decrease battery life, and 3) have a place in the OS where you can see the progress and tell it to go as fast as possible. Their philosophy of hiding everything from the user doesn't seem to be working well here.
- aaomidi 3y agoA lot of the indexing should preferably happen when you’re sleeping and you’re plugged in.
- jeroenhd 3y agoWe didn't accept "it's just indexing" when Windows Vista laptops slowed down after fresh installs and we shouldn't accept it now on phones. As a software developer I find it easy to come up with good explanations for things like these, but as an end user, I don't care. My photos are searchable but I don't think I've ever used that feature, I wouldn't want my phone to get hot and waste battery life indexing a picture of a funny tree I took five years ago. Do that stuff while charging overnight, and keep thermals under control while you do it. You don't need a fancy neural processor to detect that I leave my device plugged in at 100% every night, maybe make use of that obvious excess of downtime and processing power.
- spacemadness 3y agoWhy a bunch of software folks think “eh, it’s just indexing” is reasonable fills me with dread. It’s almost if “indexing” is some excuse to do whatever the hell you want with the hardware in question. This isn’t beyond the realm of engineering to fix if it is the issue. Stop holding it wrong, folks.
- achrono 3y agohttps://archive.ph/Gw9ww https://archive.ph/Gw9ww
- etempleton 3y agoApple has put such an emphasis on increasing the performance of their mobile chips and honestly I just don’t know why at this point. I don’t need nor want to play Resident Evil 4 Remake on my phone. I much rather have more battery life. With that said I suspect this is probably a software issue and can probably be resolved with an update.
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- bentobean 3y agoOn the hand, I agree. But on the other hand, I love the innovation here, because it could lead us to a day where your phone is your computer. Plug it into a keyboard and monitor and get to work.
- pphysch 3y agoSamsung DeX? https://www.samsung.com/us/apps/dex/ https://www.samsung.com/us/apps/dex/
- thewileyone 3y agoNo, no it's a new innovation that Apple created, but already exists.
- warkdarrior 3y agoPlease stop making stuff up. That product cannot exist until Apple invents it.
- iforgotpassword 3y agohttps://youtu.be/PwZl0xYemF0?t=1m56s https://youtu.be/PwZl0xYemF0?t=1m56s
- melling 3y agoPlug in? Make it all wireless.
- JaceLightning 3y agoCopying yet another Pixel feature
- zdyn5 3y agoJust got mine - it did run hot the first day but the next day it was fine (although I did turn off background app refresh after the first day, maybe that had something to do with it)
- cozzyd 3y agoiHandWarmer
- polygot 3y agoI have an iPhone XR, started getting very hot after I upgraded to iOS 17, especially when charging. Seems to be mostly resolved now though after I upgraded to iOS 17.0.2 but gets hot occasionally.
- ablation 3y ago15 Pro Max here. Ran VERY hot during first backup/data transfer and setup to the point where it actually flashed up the “too hot to charge” warning. Since then, not a single issue with temperature and it feels cooler running than my previous 11 Pro Max.
- thefourthchime 3y agoYeah, my 15 Pro was pretty hot that first day, now it's fine.
- mitjam 3y agoNow there is an aftermarket opportunity for heatsink cases until iPhone 16 will introduce active cooling and in-pocket sensitive throttling.
- hackpelican 3y agoI like covering my phones with DBrand skins. Wonder how much that would affect the thermals.
- kmos17 3y agoFinally upgraded after several years of skipping new models to a 15 pro, it got very hot the first day but has been perfectly fine since with heavy usage. Maybe it was initial indexing or apps installing, but no issues since. I did disable background app refresh for a bunch of apps I didn’t need it for. My battery life is considerably improved over my previous iphone.
- jug 3y agoAh once again a 15 Pro Max. See, I think it’s rumored this is due to the new Titanium design where Apple compromised the thermal system for weight. It’s not thought to be a CPU/A17 issue and in fact their chip designers are probably a bit angry now to be drawn into poor light after all their hard work. So with these reports, pay attention to if it’s about a Pro or not. They’re (thermally) completely different phones. If true and complaints loud enough, I’m sure Apple will try to mitigate it with iOS updates, new throttling curves or whatever which will open its own can of worms (“here’s the inside scoop on why your 15 Pro got slow, be sure to click like!!”) OR more careful updates where the effect will be more limited and this will be a design generation lost to thermal issues.
- hajtom 3y agoAs long as it doesn't want to become a Galaxy Note 7 I'm fine with that.