If your iPhone is often hotter than your crush, you definitely shouldn’t neglect the issue. Smartphones heat up too much and too often due to several factors. If they’re not exposed to the amazing heat of the summer days while there’s no shadow around, you can consider a strained battery or an overworked CPU as potential causes, among others. Smartphones, including iPhones, can heat up too much when you’re soliciting their hardware too much – you might use them for excessive gaming, keep too many tabs open in the browser, and so on.
It might be a bit difficult for some folks to admit that iPhones can also have overheating issues, such as devices that run on Android. That’s because iPhones are generally more stable devices than Android-based smartphones. Apple is making both the hardware and software areas of iPhones, which is why these gadgets tend to be of higher quality.
If your iPhone’s overheating is caused by a software issue rather than hardware, it means that you can get rid of those extra temperatures faster. Let’s dive into detail!
Check the iPhone’s settings
Before diving into more complex possible fixes, you must know that your iPhone could be overheating due to specific settings that you’ve done yourself in the device’s menu. For instance, your iPhone could be too hot to handle due to the screen brightness going too high, such as being set to 100 percent. There’s no reasonable argument for keeping the screen brightness that high unless you’re constantly using your iPhone when the sunlight is at its utmost peak, so feel free to lower that setting to almost half or even less!
iPhones are programmed by default to automatically adjust their display brightness to how much light you have around you. In other words, Apple might know better what your iPhone needs, so stop messing around with the settings!
A software problem might overheat your iPhone
Do you know those people who are new to using a smartphone and keep a lot of apps running in the background? Well, don’t be one of them! Even if you have an iPhone for a very long time, commodity or being a bit sloppy and busy with other tasks could cause you to keep lots of apps running in the phone’s background. Guess what? That can automatically lead to your iPhone overheating, as the CPU is putting in extra work to keep those apps running in the background.
Speaking of software issues causing your iPhone to be too hot, a simple restart of the device can solve a lot of problems, including overheating.
Your iPhone’s battery might be to blame
If your iPhone overheating isn’t caused by a software problem, we have to consider the hardware part as well, obviously. Your iPhone might become too hot due to the malfunction of its battery. If that’s the case, you can consider taking your iPhone to an Apple Store to have your battery replaced with a new one.
Apple even offers you the chance to check the health of your iPhone’s battery. In this way, you might be able to tell if the battery is indeed to blame or not for the overheating issue of your iPhone. To do so, head over to the ‘Battery Health’ area from the settings menu.
If your overheating problem still hasn’t gone away from your iPhone after applying the tips mentioned above, there’s never too late to consider opting for a factory reset. Surely this comes at a cost, as you need to save all of your files elsewhere before applying the method. But hey, it can actually be your trump card!
Tim M. Hill helped bring Digital-Overload from a weekly newsletter to a full-fledged news site by creating a new website and branding. He continues to assist in keeping the site responsive and well organized for the readers. As a writer to Digital-Overload, Tim mainly covers mobile news and gadgets.
