Is your iPhone overheating and crashing since installing iOS 16.4.1? Here’s what to do

Have you ever observed your iPhone overheating and probably crashing since putting in iOS 16.4.1, the most recent replace for the iPhone? Effectively, you are not alone, as a result of my iPhone has been doing precisely the identical.

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I first observed the issue a couple of hours after putting in the replace a little bit over every week in the past. I noticed that the iPhone acquired rather a lot hotter than often when charging — particularly when being charged on a wi-fi charger (and sure, this was a real Apple MagSafe wireless charger).

I additionally awoke a few mornings to seek out that my iPhone hadn’t totally charged. Initially I put this all the way down to consumer error (a flowery means of claiming I did not put it down on the charging pad correctly), however dominated that out as I noticed that it was occurring a number of nights in a row.

I began to get experiences from different customers saying the identical factor, and got here throughout comparable issues on-line. It appears to principally have an effect on the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max, though I’ve come throughout experiences from customers with different handsets who say this can be a downside.

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Clearly there was extra to this than consumer error.

Then one night time my iPhone locked up whereas on cost and was reluctant to come back again to life the following morning. 

Here’s a screenshot of the Battery display in Settings on iOS exhibiting it crashed after hitting 100% cost at about 3 am. What’s fascinating is that this iPhone has optimized battery charging enabled which ought to have throttled charging at 80% till the morning. This didn’t appear to kick in.

I took a visit to a close-by Apple retailer to pay a go to to the Genius Bar. The pleasant Genius ran diagnostics on the handset and gave it a clear invoice of well being, however instructed me that they’d seen elevated experiences of this downside prior to now week or so.

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Since we’re nonetheless ready for a brand new replace to drop, I have been taking some steps to stop this from occurring once more.

• Change to wired charging: This does not get rid of the overheating fully, however the charging generates much less warmth this fashion.
• Take off the case when charging: Circumstances stop the iPhone from correctly dissipating the warmth that is being generated.
• No in a single day charging: As a substitute, I am charging the iPhone a couple of occasions in the course of the day.

Given the severity of the safety points that iOS 16.4.1 patched, I actually cannot suggest skipping it, and hopefully a future replace fixes this annoying bug sooner somewhat than later.