I recently upgraded from the iPhone 11 to the iPhone 15 Pro. Since the upgrade, I have experienced significant overheating issues with my new device while playing IF. The overheating is severe enough to prevent the phone from charging, making long-haul flights impractical. I have installed the iOS 18 Beta, which might be contributing to the problem, although I had the same beta version on my previous phone without any issues. I am aware that the iPhone 15 Pro has known overheating problems. I am reaching out to see if anyone else has encountered this issue and if there are any potential solutions.
FWIW I am using the dev beta on a 15PM and have no over heating issues unless there is a ton of traffic in the area. I am a developer and have been using Apple betas for years.
Interesting… I also use the 15PM, and have for the last few months, and haven’t had many issues at all. I play with every setting on max, including 60fps, and while the phone does get pretty dang hot after about 30+ minutes, it hasn’t really been an issue past that. For overnight flights, or just in general, I’d suggest turning the graphics settings down, and also your brightness. Also, close out of any tabs you’re not using to decrease workload on the phone. Not sure what else I can offer up past that. Hope it helps.
something you’ve got to consider is that your phone can get extremely hot feeling due to it having a processor with no cooling and that can rival many laptop chips. they also utilize the chasis as a heat sink to get heat out of the phone. if your phone truly overheated there’d be a popup you cannot dismiss telling you so. the limitation on charging when your phone hits certain temps is to prevent it from generating more heat
You can enable Auto Low Power. It really helps a lot on those overnight flights. Keeps the frame rate at 10fps.
What I have had issues with is being able to actually gain charge while flying. So if I start a flight at 70% and plug in my phone, it will be at 72% a few hours later. This isn’t it overheating and shutting off charging, it’s just out using the power it’s taking in to keep the battery where it is. Being in “low power” mode helped out with that.
I do have the auto low power mode enabled and I always make sure to close out any unnecessary tabs. The main problem is that the phone just doesn’t charge at all. I’ll get a notification that the phone won’t charge until temperature lowers. The phone doesn’t necessarily overheat. I’ll try lowering all the settings to see if that helps.
Thanks for all the interesting replies, next time I’ll skip the beta.