The iPhone 15 Pro heats up but it’s not the fault of the A17 Pro. These are hot hours, it must be said, for the iPhone 15 Pro. The Apple terminal just released would suffer, according to many, from problems linked to excessive overheating and anomalous. Analyst Kuo intervenes on the topic, according to which the problem cannot be attributed to the 3nm A17 Pro processor.
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As our editorial staff who are testing the iPhone 15 Pro will write shortly, it seems that the smartphone suffers from overheating problems. In practice, despite a high efficiency per watt, the A17 Pro would have high consumption and, consequently, overheating problems.
According to Kuo, the overheating could be caused by “compromises made in the design of the thermal system” that allowed Apple to reduce the weight of the iPhone 15 Pro models. Kuo claims that the small heat dissipation area and titanium frame are negatively affecting the devices’ thermal efficiency. In other words, Titanium would not be as efficient as aluminum in terms of dissipation.
Possible solutions
Apple could also approach the problem through software, trying to stem the problem through updates. The concern, however, is that such interventions may have only limited effects, unless Apple intends to reduce the processor’s performance.
Kuo believes that if Apple is unable to “adequately address this issue,” shipments could be affected throughout the lifecycle of the iPhone 15 Pro.
Although our editorial staff did not encounter any particular problems during the tests which are still in progress, there are multiple reports of the iPhone 15 Pro overheating phenomenon. Some tests have verified that when this happens, the processor is slowed down so as not to be damaged.
The problem, therefore, would not only lead to a reduction in autonomy, but also in performance (due to thermal throttling). In practice the processor logic would reduce the speed to reduce overheating.
It should be noted that the tests to verify the problem were performed with benchmarks and extreme use cases; it is therefore not certain that this phenomenon will end up being perceptible to everyone.
It remains to be seen how the iPhone 15 Pro will perform with console-quality games like Resident Evil Village and Death Stranding already announced.
