Does the iPhone 15 Pro Max Heat Up?
Hopefully not in that order.
Now that the new iPhone 15 range is out in the wild, controversies relating to Apple’s smartphone are starting to emerge.
It was only a matter of time.
There appear to be two controversies this time around, both of which are focused primarily on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models — the latter in particular.
Does the iPhone 15 Pro Max heat up? Will it snap in half? Is that Mars Rover grade 5 titanium less than it has — literally — cracked up to be?
Let’s find out.
Previous ‘gates’
We do love an iPhone ‘gate’, don’t we?
Arguably, the most famous was Antennagate, which emerged during the iPhone 4 release in 2010. This was when Apple moved the antenna to the sides of the device and users subsequently reported a loss of signal if it was gripped in a specific manner.
A public explanation that we were all simply holding it wrong followed from Steve Jobs and every iPhone 4 owner was offered a free bumper case to rid their new pride and joy of the problem.
Would most of us have noticed any issue with the iPhone 4 cellular performance if this design quirk hadn’t been so widely publicised?
Of course we wouldn’t.
Then, we had Bendgate, which reared its ugly head in 2014 when Apple launched the super-thin and super-massive (back then) iPhone 6 Plus. As demonstrated by numerous view-chasers on YouTube, if you applied enough pressure to the back of the device with your two thumbs while gripping the rest of the frame tightly with the rest of your hands, the iPhone 6 Plus would bend.
Because, of course it would.
Apple was also, quite rightly, given a severe dressing down in the tech media back in 2017 when it was discovered that the performance of older iPhones was being intentionally throttled to prevent battery degradation. An apology followed, along with a raft of free battery replacements, and a software update that made the feature configurable by the user.
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