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Apple addresses iPhone 15 overheating with a new iOS 17 update.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Over the weekend, Apple blamed several factors for reports of iPhone 15s running hot, pointing to problems with specific apps like Instagram and Uber, post-transfer background processing, and unspecified bugs in iOS 17.
Today, the company released a new software update with patch notes saying that iOS 17.0.3 “addresses an issue that may cause iPhone to run warmer than expected.”
Checking for the newest update from your device should snag the update, which is shown as a 423.2MB download from Apple.
There had been some speculation that hardware issues, perhaps from the iPhone 15’s more powerful processor or titanium components, contributed to the sweaty iPhone experience, but Apple’s statements to Forbes and other outlets tied the issue mostly to the software, in addition to heating that could happen with USB-C chargers.
Once you’ve installed the update, let us know if you’re having a hot iPhone 15 experience or if things have started to cool off.
Apple had already released one post-iPhone 15 launch patch to deal with problems some new owners had while transferring data, and it’s currently beta testing a more significant iOS 17.1 update.
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I really thought they had to throttle the new SOC. Now if it’s identified software problems. Will other iPhones receive the „cooling“ patch too? What exactly was the culprit?
It might be related to how these apps cause the OS to boost the CPU cores or schedule those background tasks on the more powerful (and higher power) cores instead of the efficiency cores. I've seen the opposite issue on Linux and Windows with newer CPUs not boosting high enough.
Apple's own apps might have had the same issue, which would explain why the update was hundreds of megabytes instead of just the kilobytes or megabytes need for a core os update.
Then again, I haven't worked on os stuff in a long long time, so I'm pretty much just making it all up.
iPhone 11 here. Got the patch.
It’s an os bug, not a hardware issue. Actually it’s a nothing burger, so let’s move on.
So the software was fine on the previous phone. But now all of a sudden instagram is a chip cooker? Highly unlikely. Smells like spin to me.