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Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot (www.theverge.com)

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Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot::Apple says iPhone 15 and 15 Pro phones are getting too hot, but says it’s a software problem in both iOS 17 and third-party apps that is already being addressed

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[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is saying it’s a software problem with both the apps and the OS itself that they working on a fix for a deflection? This is nothing like the holding it wrong thing.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's gotta be at least partly hardware if it even -can- overheat in the first place. You should be able to peg the hardware at 100% and have it throttle itself if it's getting too hot. The individual apps are never to blame if the phone is capable of getting too hot by running specific software.

[–] deranger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s what was happening. Apps were stuck and consuming resources; there was no hardware failure. All limiters worked as expected.

Phone still gets warm at 100% utilization and thermally limited. What do you expect, no heat emission whatsoever?

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I expect them to be like every other phone when running their hardware at 100% and get a reasonably high temperature. It clearly doesn't throttle soon enough for the hardware and heat dissipation they should have meticulously designed it to have, like literally every other phone they have made, and all other phone companies make. There is a reason this is uncommon, it's not supposed to be able to happen, no matter what the software is doing, unless something in the design stages went wrong.

[–] deranger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is exactly what’s happening. It’s “warmer than expected”, not overheating. It’s properly limited, just being pegged at 100% by misbehaving software.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah sorry, the way I heard it, it was too hot to touch. If that isn't the case and it's over blown then sure. But I feel like if it was just normal overheating that every phone does when pegged at 100% and charging, it shouldn't have become a story.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is insane. The hardware for a handheld device should have limitations from giving you literal first degree burns. It's 100% Apple.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally, Apple stresses that there’s no risk to safety or to long-term performance of the iPhone as iPhones and other iOS and iPadOS devices have built-in protections to prevent overheating. If the temperature inside the iPhone increases beyond the normal range, it protects its components by regulating the temperature.

Is there a source for anyone getting literal first degree burns?

[–] eoddc5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Of course not. But why not make up facts instead?