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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 Yeul »

concinds wrote: post #87
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…

There's one way to stop it: online culture must shift toward blaming early adopters for not waiting, instead of blaming companies for bad QA. TotalBiscuit pushed that for game preorders, and it worked, preorders declined. Change always starts from below, and idle BigCorp criticism has no effect if people still give their money blindly.

Early adopters get to show off their conspicuous consumption to everyone. That's the product they bought.

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

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Post by kaba0 »

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…

It’s almost like the vast vast majority of people don’t buy a new phone every year - but these small incremental updates do add up over the years, and going from an X to 15 is a big change. According to statistics, people change phones every 3 years only.

You are arguing against a strawmen.

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

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Post by tristor »

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.

I've never had to replace the screen on any smartphone I've owned, of any brand, including Apple (which I've been on since the iPhone 4S), and I started with smartphones with Palm and Windows CE.

I also drop my phones all the time.

The secret? Buy a good case. It's really that simple.

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

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Post by Yeul »

capableweb wrote: post #77
FrankoDelMar wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you've ever tried to play a game on the iPhone/doing something else CPU/GPU heavy while outside in the sun on a hot day good excuse to put down the phone and enjoy the sun :)

Some of us live in places where there is more sunny & hot days than not, and your advice feels geared towards people who don't live such places ;)

Summers in my country are getting hotter and sunnier and they've had an impact on my screen use (I hate glare!).

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

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Post by elinear »

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…

MKBHD in his review mentioned a very odd instance of overheating, seemingly random and unrelated to any stressful workload. Anecdotal evidence points to iOS bugs.

https://youtu.be/cBpGq-vDr2Y?si=B0Tv1iRcd6Iran6B&t=669

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

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Post by trogdor »

pmarreck wrote: post #118
AnonHP wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not much of anything has changed in the last 6. Not really. It's still basically the iPhone X with a couple of screen size options. Yeah the chips are faster on paper, and the photos have gone from really good to better, but it's a really incremental product these days These kind of comments seem to be low effort because they don't really show an insight into what has changed. Of course, if you compare an iPhone fr…

> 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.)

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

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Post by nailer »

tynorf wrote: post #82
nailer wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Previously, Apple has used stainless steel for its high-end phones. I saw that too. I thought Apple mainly used aluminium?

The interior has been aluminum, but the band around the outside has been stainless steel. > Ceramic Shield front, Textured matte glass back and stainless steel design https://support.apple.com/kb/SP875?viewlocale=en_US&locale=e...

Interesting. 13 mini is

> Ceramic Shield front, Glass back and aluminum (sic) design

https://support.apple.com/kb/SP847?locale=en_GB

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

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Post by trogdor »

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.

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

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Post by foogazi »

concinds wrote: post #87
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…

There's one way to stop it: online culture must shift toward blaming early adopters for not waiting, instead of blaming companies for bad QA. TotalBiscuit pushed that for game preorders, and it worked, preorders declined. Change always starts from below, and idle BigCorp criticism has no effect if people still give their money blindly.

> online culture must shift toward blaming early adopters for not waiting

What does a user do with blame?

If the phone doesn’t work users will just return it

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

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Post by zja »

capableweb wrote: post #36
bogantech wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Normies care about the fact that it's uncomfortably warm to hold, not whether the CPU is hot or not.

I do think "normies" care about the CPU is hot or not, but they do so indirectly, as the phone will start throttling the CPU when it reaches a certain temperature, so the phone will start feeling laggy. If you've ever tried to play a game on the iPhone/doing something else CPU/GPU heavy while outside in the sun on a hot day, you'll know what I mean, the performance is much worse.

Absolutely, I have the 12 mini, and if my phone is plugged into my car while using maps + Spotify, it shuts down to prevent overheating.
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