Hello all,
I hope this finds you doing well.
So I'm on the latest update iOS 26.2, and I have discovered that my iPhone heats up very quickly than expected. I am not doing anything to intense or to heavy that might heat up my device or drain my battery. Even when my iPhone is in sleep mode, it still heats up.
But the weird thing is that it doesn't heat up while charging.
I have checked if my iPhone is doing things in the background and no. I have also tried restarting my iPhone and it still heats up.
Can anyone tell me how to stop this?
Thank you and hope to hear back soon.
All the best,
Ayub
Comments
How do you check the battery Health of your phone?
Have you checked the battery health of your phone? It could have something to do with that. I’m not completely sure but I’m just guessing. We’re talking about a regular iPhone 15 here, correct? I have a regular iPhone 15 that’s also running iOS 26.2 but I haven’t seen this issue. Hopefully you can figure out how to stop it. Have you tried resetting all your settings? Sometimes that solves a lot of weird issues.
I think it got fixed
It got fixed now. Everything is back to normal.
Awesome, how did you fix it?
That’s awesome. How did you fix it? I’m just curious in case that happens to my phone. I also have an iPhone 15.
Reseted All Settings
I just reseted all settings and it made a huge difference. My battery health is at 91%. I'm getting a new iPhone 17 soon. So that should also make a huge difference.
Running applications
It's a possibility that you had an application running that was causing your phone to overheat. For example, if you open The Seeing AI app and use it, then go back to your home screen and start doing other things, if the Seeing AI app is actively running within your app switcher, it will cause your phone to overheat. There are quite a few apps that do this, but Seeing AI is just what I can remember off of the top of my head.
HTH.
Go Pro For Better Thermals
Hi,
I honestly wouldn't recommend upgrading unless you are going to go with one of the Pro models. Between the 15 and the 17, there isn't much of a difference except for the material the phone is made of and a few other things. For our purposes, I really don't see any value in an upgrade this soon. The exception to this being the heat dissipation, which again only the Pro models have. If battery is your concern, it would be much, much less expensive to just buy a portable charger if you don't have one.
pro
Well do forget the pro now has a better way to cope with heat. Long live cats. PS. Bella tended to like my phone when it was hot. She like to lay on it.
Sometimes it's wifi
I have noticed with my past couple phones that if I'm in a place with poor wifi my phone will overheat. Also any time you so much as whisper "YouTube" outside its app the phone will overheat because of their very stupid anti ad blocker policies.
Yet another reason
That I avoid using the default YouTube app.
Brian
I use youtube on my iPad 9. Long live cats.
Replacing The Battery
Does anyone think that replacing the battery will help? I'm at 91% battery health.
Ayub
Take it to apple if you have concerns. Battery sound good from you say regarding the percentage. Long live cats.
Reducing Overheating
Hi there,
In general, Apple recommends you replace the battery when it reaches 80% health or lower. I'm no expert, but I don't think 91% battery health should cause overheating in it of itself, so the issue lies somewhere else.
I would suggest examining your battery settings screen. With any luck, you can find out which apps are using the most battery. These are likely the ones causing your phone to heat up the most as well as a result. By changing your usage patterns, or using these apps differently, it might help reduce overheating.
Hope this helps.
YouTube and heating up
The YouTube app doesn't heat up the phone. It’s using YouTube in Safari or any browser when you use an ad blocker. This is something crappy YouTube is doing, not Apple. It happens on pc and Mac too. It’s quite gross since, at this point, the internet is not useable without an ad blocker, especially for disabled users. Trust Google to do the worst thibgs they can get away with.