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iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Re: iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

trogdor wrote: post #136
pmarreck wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The improvements in camera, screen brightness, colors and many others strongly disagree with such claims. I've owned an X, a 12, a 13 (after the 12 got water damage), and have ordered the 15 (but not received it yet). With the caveat of not having used the 14 or 15 (but just looking at the specs on paper), I would have to agree with the comment you're responding to that all the changes since the X have essentially…

Why can you not stand Face ID? I love it. For me, it works pretty much 100% of the time, including situations where Touch ID would be inconvenient, like when my phone or hands are wet. (I go kayaking almost every day.)

I'm not OP, but I seem to naturally hold my iPhone closer to my face than the distance at which FaceID works. Either that, or the system just doesn't like my face.

FaceID works so poorly that I actually disabled it for unlocking my phone. At least when I use a passcode, I can set a grace period of one hour before the passcode is required again. If you turn on FaceID, it's always required as soon as you lock your phone.

I have an iPhone 13 Mini fwiw.

Re: iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Post by xsmasher »

gonzo41 wrote: post #113
uuddlrlrbaba wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Review the EOL spans between apple and android though. Apple is still releasing security updates for the 5S, a 10 year old handset. Android devices average 3-4 years before complete end of support. Maybe HN folks will go for alternate firmware, but I'm talking about manufacturer firmware for apples to apples comparison. That $300 increases to $600+ vs holding on to a ~$500 apple handset when looking at a 5+ years tim…

5 years on an iphone is a long time. There'll be a few screen replacements in that story.

At 5 years the battery is probably kaput, but you can get a new battery for $89 installed. I just put a new battery in my iPhone 11 and it has a new lease on life. Still a great phone.

Re: iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Post by zamadatix »

WirelessGigabit wrote: post #105
NBJack wrote: post #61

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FWIW, this has been one of the worst seasons for mobile phone sales in a decade. [1] It may be telling if the latest from Apple will change that or not. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/17/global-smartphone-market-to-...

In reality the only upgrade from the 14 Pro Max to this one is 3x to 5x zoom and USB-C. And while I absolutely love USB-C, I do have a whole collection of lightning cables. Something in my way of using my iPhone(s) make pin 4 wear out insanely fast. Maybe it's because I carry it with me in the shower / hot tub. Not sure how the USB-C variant deals with the pitting. The button on the side and the titanium are a change…

I'll never be able to view "can flip my locked phone to silent mode while it's in my pocket" as anything but a design flaw in the first place. IMO, the greatest improvement to this area is finally being able to disable that physical action in software.

Re: iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Post by local_crmdgeon »

kaba0 wrote: post #150
londons_explore wrote: post #57

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I kinda wish Apple and Google would work on this first-run case. It's especially bad when you buy a new phone and set it up on-the-go, only to find the battery is dead before all the apps have even installed. Not a great experience. They could do all the app installs and setup on a virtualized iphone in the cloud, and then just copy over all the already-configured apps.

I’m not convinced that would be possible. It’s almost by definition: prod is the ultimate testing, and especially in case of such a complex product and massive user base, there is simply no way that a few won’t have issues, no matter how much testing was done by apple.

Apple sold 232 million iPhones in 2022. A .01 percent failure rate is a small city of pissed off people.

Re: iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Post by local_crmdgeon »

altairprime wrote: post #143
sod wrote: post #25

If iOS wasn't just a baby OS but instead had an activity monitor, we wouldn't play scavenger hunt, but instead just see "oh, this app or process is pinned to 100% for 5 minutes, please fix the app or apple please throttle a simple picture viewing app like instagram before it turned my brick into a stovetop". I guess we have to wait until daddy apple with their full system access can reproduce it and fix in 17.1

Logs are written for those events, and name specific apps, and are accessible without a developer account, on the phone at any time, without installing any additional apps or tools. I assume you’re familiar with them (unlike the tech press, who apparently as a whole is not) and consider them insufficient. What information do you find to be missing when you review them? How could they be improved?

Wait, how? This is news to me, but I'm just a heathen web developer.

Re: iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Post by instagib »

fh9302 wrote: post #3

GSMArena bought two iPhone 15 Pro Max from different retailers to test the overheating issue and they were unable to replicate it. > Lastly, we did read reports of overheating iPhones, some during fast charging. For this review, we used two iPhone 15 Pro Max units, obtained from different retailers, and neither of those became unbearably hot even after an hour of GPU stress testing. Warm, rather unpleasantly (but not…

There’s a couple clarifications I’d like.

Case or no case? A case keeps the heat in more.

Max settings on games with no fps cap? Optimized charging off? Limit frame rate off? Brightness level max? Auto brightness off? Background processes on? Notifications on? Reduce motion off? Location services on / precise? Wi-Fi/bluetooth/air drop on?

Standard set of social apps installed with games logged in, apps in the app switcher not closed, and email accounts set for push notifications?

I have personally observed my [phone/ipad/old iPhone/old iPad] getting so hot that I got the cannot charge due to temperature message. Updates could have changed as I could not play some of these games for very long and others may have similar complaints. I blanched my iPad case white in some areas due to heating and charging while playing.

Here’s my stress testing list:

“20 minutes till dawn” minutes

“Monster hunter now”

“Disney mirrorverse”

“Dragon raja”

“Genshin impact”

“Pathless”

Re: iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Post by [deleted] »

gonzo41 wrote: post #113
uuddlrlrbaba wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Review the EOL spans between apple and android though. Apple is still releasing security updates for the 5S, a 10 year old handset. Android devices average 3-4 years before complete end of support. Maybe HN folks will go for alternate firmware, but I'm talking about manufacturer firmware for apples to apples comparison. That $300 increases to $600+ vs holding on to a ~$500 apple handset when looking at a 5+ years tim…

5 years on an iphone is a long time. There'll be a few screen replacements in that story.

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Re: iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Post by thebruce87m »

highwaylights wrote: post #75

What you can do as a consumer is.. not buy new iPhones? I don't mean as like a protest or anything. I mean just don't buy your iPhones new. They don't change much anymore, you can get caught out by this or Antennagate (or any other type of issue you get to encounter as a first mover), and the changes between years are genuinely minimal now. The iPhone came out in 2007. The iPhone 4 came out in 2010. The leap from the…

You seem to think everyone updating to a 15 already had a 14 or other recent model? I don’t think that is a sound assumption.

I’m on an 11 and my wife has an 8. I’ll probably get a 15 next year, 1 year old second hand as I normally do.

Re: iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Post by nerdjon »

trogdor wrote: post #138
nerdjon wrote: post #55

So I have the iPhone 15 Pro Max. I have for sure had a few times that it got really hot, particularly when I was restoring it and it was doing a lot of background tasks. BUT so has every other single iPhone I have had since at least the X but I am pretty sure going farther back. There were always moments that it got hot and I remember it would always happen when I was first setting it up. For me at least I don't thin…

Same here. The only time my phone gets reliably toasty is when recording a very long video at 4K 60 fps. That’s it.

Same! I noticed that with my previous iPhone also.

Related question (if you see this). I have started just cranking down the AC when I need to record something. Since annoyingly the iPhone will just stop recording with no notification. So if I have my phone mounted I may just loose some recording. Have you found a solution to this by chance?

Re: iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

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Post by c-hendricks »

trogdor wrote: post #136
pmarreck wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The improvements in camera, screen brightness, colors and many others strongly disagree with such claims. I've owned an X, a 12, a 13 (after the 12 got water damage), and have ordered the 15 (but not received it yet). With the caveat of not having used the 14 or 15 (but just looking at the specs on paper), I would have to agree with the comment you're responding to that all the changes since the X have essentially…

Why can you not stand Face ID? I love it. For me, it works pretty much 100% of the time, including situations where Touch ID would be inconvenient, like when my phone or hands are wet. (I go kayaking almost every day.)

Brushing my teeth? Can't unlock my phone.

Fresh out of the shower? Can't unlock my phone.

Phone too close? Can't unlock my phone.

Want to quickly unlock my phone while it's laying on my desk? Can't, gotta lift it, point it towards my face, then lay it back where it was.

I dunno, I have a bit of relief when I can just unlock my iPad with my finger.

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