iPhone needs to cool down – How To Prevent Your iPhone From Overheating

“Temperature….iPhone needs to cool down before you use it”. How many times were you in the situation of being unable to navigate on your smart phone because of this message?

Take this situation…

We have at least one example of someone who had this situation, while travelling from Colorado to San Diego (quite a long distance). Let’s call her Meghan. Meghan trusted her smart phone’s value and used it for playing media but for navigation also. Unfortunately, from time to time the phone was shutting down out of the sudden or simply refusing to charge. So, her iPhone 4S showed symptoms of overheating. She tried to figure out many ways of how to use it though, but was not able to find any. So, Meghan decided to browse the internet in order to find an iPhone 4S ? cooling method so that she could use it in ?her next hot holiday. She even came up with her own idea: she thought of moding the PC’s liquid cooling system ?and attach the cold plate to the Ram mount she has for the phone (in the back) and then get to the a/c ventilator. A very complicated and ambiguous idea.

So, Meghan is willing to find other interesting and more simple ways of preventing overheating in her trip. She would be very thankful, as the iPhone is men’s best friend when it comes to music and navigation and she can’t shear herself of this pleasure.

How to prevent your iPhone from overheating?

First, in anything you do you should find the reasons why something happens. Why does the iPhone stop working and refuses power?

Taking into account the discomfortable message on the screen, one thing is clear: Apple knows about what could happen to their products in case of overheating.Apple makes available for its clients a detailed support article for this topic. It contains the regular situations of overheating: hot weather or the device left in direct sunlight.

It is clear for each of us that this high temperature can lead to this, but there are ?still other situations that are not so obvious. For instance, Apple states that using GPS dependent apps and playing games at the same time can overheat your iPhone and shut it down.

iPhone is still a device just like the computer. Take this case: you work, play, have YouTube playing your favourite music and do not shut your computer down for more than 3?days, doing this continuously. It decides to take a break and shuts itself down. ?This is the case with the iPhone also: it is a device connected to a power source, so it becomes overload, with each application you decide to run in parallel with the previous ones. ?So, by shutting down by itself, the iPhone gives you a sign that you should use less applications at the same time.

So, even if Apple knows about this situation, the problem has not yet been fixed, but it seems like they are trying to find a solution for it. In fact, there is one more thing: the hardware becomes more robust with time, so the need to cool down becomes a real necessity.

Going back to Meghan and her solution idea, with the PC, Ram mount and ventilation, ?we can tell that she has been thinking for a while, as it is a complex one. ?As complex the idea seems, the procedure might be the same, so before doing this Meghan and all the users who had this problem should try to follow the solutions stated below. They are easier and more practical:

1. Keep only the necessary location service and disable the others: GPS is a source of heating, ?if combined with an active car adapter. That is how your iPhone gets to a high temperature if you don’t have the unnecessary locations disabled. Go to location settings in the menu and disable the locations set for other journeys that you don’t need this time.

Even better would be not to use the turn-by-turn directions (the GPS tells you constantly the up-to-the second location). You could instead just set the driving directions and then save them for the offline use. Or, if you have a passenger near, ask him to follow the map and force close Maps when you drive a long direct road.

2. Purchase a new car adapter:

First, there is the case in which you have an adapter bought from a third-party supplier. It might be a source of overheating your iPhone, because it has a capacity of giving more power.

Then, if you use the original Apple adapter or you are sure it is not because of this, you could try to remove the charger from the iPhone once in a while. It is stated that many users consider their iPhone is overheat when connected to the car for a long time.

3. Just do what is accessible and easy: Meghan for instance came with a complex solution, but we are sure she thought of this only after trying some basic “to do” things before. Some of them are stated below:

a/ Set your iPhone as a new device, by erasing the content (take care not to restore from backup)

b/ Charge your iPhone without any case.

c/ Turn off any service and application which is not helpful for the road: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and, if you are on a holiday you can even close your e-mail and notifications – at least for the road.

d/ The display brightness should be as low as possible.

If you do all these and follow the advice we are sure a decrease in your iPhone’s temperature will exist.

There is still the situation in which you have already tried all the above. If so is the case, you must go to the Genius Bar and ask them to replace your phone, as overheating may happen because of the hardware itself, if the battery is unsound or even if a micro-SIM is not in her right place. ?Keep in mind, you have chances of success only if you are under warranty. Of course you should explain them that you already tried everything possible and the problem persists.

If not, there is still Meghan’s idea to solute the situation. We would like to follow the steps she takes if she decides to have this experiment.Of course, this cooling system idea is good in theory but in practice might have some barriers, such as how the liquid will be circulated.

Still, if you had the same problem and found your own solution, we would sincerely want to know it, so please do share it with us.