There are many users complaining about excessive temperature on the back of their iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.
Every time a new iPhone is launched on the market, a problem appears that in many cases is magnified, although in others it is completely real. Antennagate, Bendgate, Batterygate… we have many and perhaps we are facing a new one. According to many users, the iPhone 15 Pro gets too hot under certain circumstancesand one of those who knows the most assures that it may be a design problem.
According to reports Ming-Chi Kuo, The problem with the iPhone 15 Pro has nothing to do with its new A17 Pro chip manufactured by TSMC. According to him, Apple would have made too many concessions to the device’s design to reduce its weight, including a reduction in the heat dissipation area attached to the chip.
My survey indicates that the iPhone 15 Pro series overheating issues are not related to TSMC’s advanced 3nm node. The root cause is most likely to be compromises made in the design of the thermal system to achieve lighter weight, such as reducing the heat dissipation area and using a titanium frame, which negatively impacts efficiency. thermal.
How will Apple solve this problem?
There really aren’t many options for Apple. If the problem is in the design, that could take a long time to fix and could affect the weight of the device. The most appropriate option, according to Kuo, is that Apple releases an iOS 17 update for the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max that solves the problem, at the cost of reduce the performance and power of the A17 Pro processor.
Apple is expected to address this through software updates, but improvements may be limited unless Apple reduces processor performance. If Apple does not adequately address this issue, it could negatively impact shipments throughout the product lifecycle of the iPhone 15 Pro series.
It must be said that Apple has not commented yet and that only a small number of users have been affected. It is true that the iPhone 15 Pro gets hot when we push it to the limitespecially in games and editing tasks, but this does not happen on a day-to-day basis.
We will see if Apple offers any type of statement on the matter and if it takes measures so that the iPhone 15 Pro does not get so hot. Although these measures could represent a A17 Pro chip power loss.
Brand Manzana Release date 2023