Hello everyone, hope you’re having a great day! The reason for which I am making this topic is because when playing Infinite Flight on my iPad, it becomes a frying pan. This all started a couple days ago, when I did a 12 hour flight in the A380 from LAX to Seoul. It was an overnight flight so I decided to turn on an external fan, and aim it at the screen. I also put my iPad in such position where the hot air can dispel easily from the bottom. The following morning, I come back to find my device slightly warm. This was a first indicatian as every time I did an overnight flight (also being plugged in), my device would sometimes even be cold. (I left it on for the remainder of the flight) Upon approaching Sepul, I started getting random lag spikes. I set all my graphic settings to low, yet nothing seemed to change. (I forgot to mention but everytime I do a flight, I set all the graphics to minimal, enable automatic low power and switchto the circulating camera to preserve my screen). Today I was going to fly from JFK to Istanbul, but upon spawning, my problems begun. My device got super hot. I minimised all graphic settings in an attempt to cool it down. Nothing. I thought it would go away, but it didn’t. It was getting to the point where I would get minor burns if I kept my fingers on for to long. (the back side not the screen) I decided to terminate the flight and call it a day. These heating problems just randomly happened. Prior to this flight, I had completely shut down my iPad for 24 Hours after that A380 flight to Seoul to let my chip cool down a little. I have heard that the iPad Air 5 has heating problems with its M1 chip but I refuse to believe that it can be that bad. I even get these boiling temperatures in solo mode. This is making me wonder if I should cancel my subscription as its not really worth damaging this device which isn’t even a year old. Thanks everyone, and I apologise for the absurdly long text. Hope you have a great day!
The overheating with the IPad Air 5 seems to be a widely reported issue on the apple discussions page.
You can check out this section of the user guide, it may help you improve your performance.
You can try lowering your graphics, making sure 30fps is set, restarting your device before flights… and enabling low power mode from the infinite flight settings.
Hi, I have the iPad Air 6 (M2) chip but what I do may be of help. Along with what @alexev has suggested, I’ve purchased a small desk fan that I use to point toward my tablet. It works remarkably well with cooling my device down and you can get one for quite cheap on Amazon.
Circulating camera won’t work to help you really. I arrived into Seoul just this morning from a long-haul, and my device was as cold as it can get when I woke up to meet my aircraft 30 minutes prior to arrival. First up, as you did correctly, put all your graphics at low, but also put airplane count at low and hide multiplayer names/airplanes. The external fan definitely helps, I also use it, and with that I’d suggest brightness and sound at zero. Finally, for overnights, I’d suggest using as many of the worst-quality planes as possible. 767, 747, 787, 350. These planes heat your device much less. For the camera, put the “Captain” camera on and zoom into the captain’s seat. No cockpit cam? No worries, use the interior drone to get to the cockpit.
I agree about worst quality planes, on my main phone, did London Heathrow to Dubai with a 787, with also streaming at same time, no overheating, medium traffic, all smooth with fps cold device and landing was fine.
Hello, are you suggesting these cooling pads for laptops? I’ve been skeptical about purchasing them as I don’t know if they’re effective. If you don’t use it, does your device also get warm? Thanks!
Yeah but just about a week ago, I was able to run Infinite Flight on all settings set to the max, and it would just barely warm up, even at the largest airports in multiplayer. It just randomly started happening.
Basically it says that when the iPad gets too hot, which shouldn’t happen, to better get it checked for faults.
Have you tried rebooting the device?
Maybe some process is stuck somehow?
Apple devices don’t seem to be as good at clearing/cleaning/closing everything the way they used to.
Yes I have. I think I’ll take it soon but what will they do? Knowing Apple, they’d tell me there is nothing they can do about it, and try to sell me their newest iPad saying “we have substantialy improved heating issues on this one”.
The chip should be cooled down after a few minutes.
When you say “cool down a little”, you make it sound as if it was still warm after 24 hours of being off.
Does it heat up with other demanding apps as well, or only with IF?
Not a cooling pad, but a desk fan. My iPad gets quite hot when I’m approaching busy airspace or have the graphics on max. When it does, I turn on the fan and point it toward the device. I’ve attached a picture of what I mean.
I remember when I was using napkins + cold water, and ice for the phone, and not bad tbh, with my old device, and not really good, did a 14 Hours flight, 100% battery departure, and landing 89% battery, landed fine, and yes, always plugged in with the charger 💀
Mine isn’t loud, though I paid for one that is quiet (not the one pictured), I can sleep with it on. However, I normally don’t leave it on overnight to conserve electricity.
