I just installed iOS 18.6.2 and now my iPhone 16 Pro keeps getting warmer than usual. It wasn’t happening before the update. Even if I restart the phone, it heats up again within minutes. Is this a known bug or something wrong with my phone?
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I just installed iOS 18.6.2 and now my iPhone 16 Pro keeps getting warmer than usual. It wasn’t happening before the update. Even if I restart the phone, it heats up again within minutes. Is this a known bug or something wrong with my phone?
In my experience, doing a straight update always brings problems like this — battery drain, heating, random glitches. A clean install through recovery mode usually clears it all up. Basically wipe it and reinstall iOS fresh instead of just layering the update on top.
Same here. My 15 Pro heats up like crazy just scrolling Twitter or even basic browsing in Safari. It wasn’t like this before 18.6.2. The back of the phone gets almost too hot to hold after a few minutes. Definitely not normal.
Yeah, at this point I’m starting to think we’ll never see an iPhone launch without a laundry list of problems. Every update seems to bring something new to break.
Honestly same. Love the iPhone ecosystem but man, the amount of bugs and glitches lately is tiring. Feels like we’re beta testers half the time.
I had the same overheating on my 15 Pro after updating. A couple things that helped: I freed up storage (deleted old videos I didn’t need), turned location off and back on, then did a reset of all settings (not erase, just reset). After that the phone stopped running hot every five minutes. Still keeping an eye on it, but way better now.
On my 16 Pro the overheating was crazy right after I updated. What I did was close out everything that was running, then went into the App Store and updated all my apps (a bunch of them hadn’t been updated for iOS 18 yet). After that I did a force restart volume up, volume down, then hold the side button until the Apple logo shows.
Not saying it’s perfect now, but the phone definitely isn’t getting as hot as it was before. Feels like the old app versions plus the update were clashing and making it overheat.
My 15 Pro was overheating like crazy. Someone suggested turning off Apple Intelligence, so I’ve done that and now I’m waiting to see if it cools down a bit. Hoping it solves it.
It’s normal for the phone to feel warm, but if it was actually overheating you’d get an onscreen warning. Try a force restart to clear things up: quick tap volume up, quick tap volume down, then hold the side button until you see the Apple logo. Let go once the logo appears.