How to Fix iPhone Overheating When Charging with 9 Ways?

Category: iPhone Issues

August 14, 2024 3 mins read

Have you noticed your iPhone overheating while charging? Some users reported that this is a common problem with every new iPhone he has used.

However, having an overheating iPhone could reduce your iPhone's performance, cause battery issues or even reduce the device's lifespan. What's worse, it can crash or freeze, resulting in potential data loss during use.

To maintain your iPhone's lifespan, please read on this article to explore some practical solutions.

Why the iPhone 11/12/13/14/15 gets hot when charging? Before going over the iPhone heating while charging solutions, you can learn about the following external and internal causes that trigger this problem to better find a corresponding method.

When iPhone heating up while charging, it will stuck or receive the temperature warning. Prolonged overheating can cause damage to the battery and even the phone. Whichever the reasons, you can find the corresponding solutions below.

If the iPhone overheating when charging issue is sue to external causes, you can try the below three methods to cool down your iPhone.

1 Check Your Charging Accessories

Please double check that you are using an official Apple charger and charging cable. Unofficial charging accessories can overload the battery and cause iPhone to gets hot while charging.

In addition, please stop charging promptly if your iPhone is getting hot while charging, as an overheated charger can also cause iPhone 11/12/13/14/15 to get hot during charging.

2 Put the iPhone in a Cool Place

iPhone getting hot while charging can also due to the high temperature in the room. If it's kept in such an environment, the worse situation is that the iPhone battery won't charge finally.

So, please put your iPhone in a cooler place to reduce the iPhone's heat. Or, you can turn on the fan while charging, which is a useful method to quickly cool down your device.

3 Remove iPhone's Case

If the iPhone is poorly ventilated while charging, such as with a case on, the heat generated by internal components can't dissipate heat thourgh the back case, leading to iPhone getting hot.

Therefore, please make sure that your iPhone has enough chance to dissipate while charging, removing the iPhone's case is necessary whenever you want to charge the device.

Below are 6 solutions to iPhone hot when charging issue due to internal causes. You can try them all one by one.

1 Fix iOS System Glitches to Stop iPhone from Overheating While Charging

The reason why new iPhone models like iPhone 13/14/15 gets hot when charging is probably due to the faulty iOS system. Under this situation, you have to fix the running system to stop iPhone from potential crashing.

Updating the iOS to the latest version can fix this system glitches. But what to when when your iPhone is still getting hot during charging? This iOS system repair tool - iMyFone Fixppo can help.

By fixing the bugs on your iPhone, Fixppo can reduce iPhone heat and keep your iPhone at a moderate temperature while charging without overheating due to minor system failure issues.

Key Features of iMyFone Fixppo:

• No Data Loss: Easily fix iPhone overheating while charging issue due to iOS software glitches without losing data.
• Maintain Battery Health: Update your iPhone to the latest iOS and fix minor glitches to keep the battery in healthy state.
• Easy-to-use & Powerful: Fix iPhone battery draining fast, iPhone battery stuck won't turn off, etc.
• Wide Compatibility: Support all iPhone 11/12/13/14/15 and all operating systems including the latest iOS 17/18 Beta.

Want to fix the iPhone overheating when charging problem and cool down your iPhone immediately? You can download Fixppo and follow to see how to do.

Step 1: After downloading, launch Fixppo and use a USB cable to connect your iPhone to the computer. Choose Standard Mode later, the popular feature that can solve the issue without losing data.

Step 2: Fixppo will automatically recognize the model of your overheating iPhone and provide the available iOS firmware used for fixing the system glitches. Click the Download button to get it.

Step 3: When downloaded, please click the Start Standard Repair button and Fixppo will begin to fixing the iPhone 11/12/13/14/15 gets hot when charging. Please keep the iPhone connected during the whole process.

After fixing, you will see this success screen on the computer. When iPhone restarts, the iPhone getting hot while charging issue will be fixed successfully.

Tips

You can enable the "Optimized Battery Charging" feature to let iPhone learns from your daily charging routine and minimize the possiblity of iPhone overheating while charging.

2 Free Up iPhone Storage

Your iPhone needs CPU and GPU to process tasks whether your iPhone is charging or not. But if you're using the iPhone while charging, the device may reach its storage limit and lead to the overload issue for the lack of enough storage for task-processing.

To release iPhone storage, please go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage, where you can find all downloaded apps and how much storage they take up. Delete those you don't need.

3 Disable Background App Refresh

The background app refresh can be a time-saver feature that allows to update the content when on WLAN or cellular in the background, even when you're not using the app.

But it will get your iPhone processor keep running all the time, causing your iPhone getting hot while charging. So, you can stop iPhone heating up while charging by turning off this feature.

Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh. Toggle off the buttons next to the aps you don't need, but only leave the apps that need to receive instant notifications on a daily basis.

4 Delete Incompatible Apps

Charging issues like iPhone charging forever or iPhone heating while charging are often the result to the incompatiblity problems between the apps and your running system.

You may have just downloaded a new app from untrustworthy source that causes your iPhone to overheat when plug into charge. To rule out this cause, simply go delete the app that doesn't work well.

To delete the problematic app, simply long-press in from the home page, and chose Remove App, then click the Delete App option to delete it from your iPhone.

5 Turn on Airplane Mode

Even when you're not using any apps, the default features of iPhone will also using a lot of CPU power, like the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular, etc.

That's probably why does your iPhone get hot when charging even when you've done nothing to it. In this case, turning on the Airplane Mode helps to reduce iPhone heat while charging by disenabling these features.

6 Check Damaged Battery

All above solutions are for solving the iPhone overheating when charging issue. But for internal component damages, like the battery, you have to get it replaced with a new one that has a great capacity to support your iPhone's charging.

We've listed 9 solutions to the issue of iPhone overheating while charging due to either external or internal causes. To ensure that your iPhone is secure and prevent iPhone from heating while charging, you can try these solutions.

Among them, iMyFone Fixppo is tested by many users to be the easiest solution to fix this iPhonr charging issue and a series of other iOS problems. Try it free today!

Melvin Cooper

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