The fix won’t involve throttling performance, Apple says.

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

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    262·
    1 year ago

    It’s clearly iOS 17 and it’s compatibility with old apps that ran fine on 16. People have been reporting heat issues with Instagram since 17 beta 1.

    If it was the A17 or the Titanium frame, it wouldn’t be impacting the base 15, which is the old A16 and aluminum enclosure. Also people wouldn’t be able to reproduce on older phones and iPads with iOS 17 / iPad OS 17.

    Every major Windows, Android, iOS release has some apps that shit the bed and are incompatible with a big n.0 release. This is more of the same. Apple needs to step up their QA game, and this should be yet another a reminder of what happens when you jump into a new major OS update on week 1. The risk of broken 3rd party apps is high at that time. Always has been.

  • Teluris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    If it’s a purely software issue that’s very good to hear. Should be way less problematic in the long run, than a hardware design flaw.

    • pazukaza@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      My phones used to be hot all the time, even when idle. 8 years ago when I decided to drop Facebook for good, I noticed my phone was no longer hot. I have no clue what they do in the background, but they are killing your battery.

      Now, I always set my phone to battery saving mode to prevent this from happening with other apps. No funny background stuff allowed in my phone.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Apple has acknowledged user complaints that iPhone 15 and 15 Pro phones are overheating, reports Forbes, but said that contrary to speculation, it has nothing to do with the phone’s hardware design.

    Forbes noted an update to Instagram has already rolled out with version 302, released September 27th, to address some of the issues.

    Bloomberg notes an unnamed Apple spokesperson specifically mentioning Instagram, Uber, and the game Asphalt 9 as examples of apps that could cause the devices to “run warmer than normal.”

    Apple also says there is no safety risk in the thermal issues but that other factors, like USB-C power adapters with more-than-20W charging and background processing that occurs shortly after a phone is restored, can make a phone warmer than an iPhone user might be accustomed to.

    The company further told Forbes that the fix, which should come with iOS 17.1, won’t result in throttled performance, which some, like Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, have said was a possibility.

    The chip and its new six-core GPU is supposed to be one of the big selling points of the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max since it makes it possible for the game to run graphics-intensive games like Resident Evil Village, which is due out later this year, at near-console fidelity.

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