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Comment on iPhone 15 overheating reports, with temperatures as high as 116F

Actually it can pose quite a big problem. There’s no ventilation on phone anywhere and lithium batteries really don’t like heat, at all. In fact that’s just at the top maximum battery can take, so there’s a big chance of thermal runaway at which point whole thing might combust.

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time_lord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lithium batteries aren’t going to thermal runaway at 46ºc.

Edit: I looked it up. it’s ~66º, so maybe closer for comfort that one would like.

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- MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yup. Not that far from recorded temps. Combine that with leaving phone in car or in direct sunlight and you enter dangerous zone.
  
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  - ave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    iirc iphones at least turn off if overheating so they might just be fine in that regard. sucks to get to your phone in the other room and find it turned off tho ig.
    
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    MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Those situations are best avoided. Fail safes are there to prevent catastrophic failure, but heat does affect things permanently. Your battery life will take a big hit. CPU might not like it, etc.
    
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