Apple says it will fix software problems blamed for making iPhone 15 models too hot to handle::Apple is blaming a software bug and other issues tied to popular apps such as Instagram and Uber for causing its recently released iPhone 15 models to heat up and spark complaints about becoming too hot to handle
It was always going to be mainly a software issue, wasn’t it?
I had the 15 Pro for a few days now and aside from initial setup, stress tests and fast charging, it doesn’t get noticeably warm. I don’t use Instagram or the other apps mentioned though, so of course these might be problematic. I feel like previous iPhones warmed up to similar temperatures when under these “stress” conditions.
I feel like this was one of these cases where some outlet reports about these “overheating” (a term widely misused) issues, then people reading that article start getting hypersensitive about it on their phones, so more articles get written and it goes on and on. In reality, things like fast charging (and MagSafe charging) always heated iPhones up a bit, and that only makes sense.
I’m not saying this is a non-issue entirely, but articles blaming the SoC (A17), the titanium frame or whatever without anything to back their claims up (because it’s just an article copied from some other “journalist”, who copied it themselves from somewhere else) instead of trying to figure out what the issue is need to stop. There should be articles written about how the quality control of big iOS releases has declined over the years instead.
It seems most journalists these days have lost the art of the Root Cause Analysis. First to print wins, and after that, whatever makes people click on your stuff so it pushes ad views.
ML journalism will only exacerbate this problem, because I can guarantee some places will try to “save money” by replacing their editorial staff with an intern that just types “how should I edit the following article for final release” into ChatGPT
This community was also VERY quick to jump to really weird conclusions.
It looks like this was all just stupid patchable point zero release OS bugs and apps that have not updated to be compatible with the new OS.
We see that crap with almost every new major OS release. Windows, Android, Mac, etc. Been happening since the dawn of the personal computer.
The more people look into this, the more it appears that the big culprit is iOS 17 and apps that did not do proper comparability testing with iOS 17 over the past 6 months.
Instagram heats up the logic board like a motherfucker, and it does this does for all iOS / iPad OS 17 devices, not just the 15 pro.
Also, people were reporting this Instagram bug months ago.
I’ve got the 15 Pro Max, do use instagram, and haven’t had these overheating problems. So I def don’t think it’s a uniform issue.