Phone gets hot and screen gets dim

Submitted by Time-Pick3831 t3_119uo4i in iphone

Hi everybody, I just want to know if what I’m experiencing/experienced both with my IPhone 14 Pro and old IPhone 11 is normal. Sometimes it happens that I notice the screen got dimmer even though the brightness is all the way up, True Tone and automatic brightness disabled. Then I touch the phone and it seems slightly hotter, and I notice that maybe I was running many apps at the same time, playing a 4k video/uploading it on Instagram, listening to music for hours. Then I close all the tabs and it goes back to normal within seconds. Is it normal or it’s some malfunctioning?

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ImChimeraX t1_j9o4he0 wrote

It's normal. The phone will automatically throttle the processor and reduce brightness to stop it from overheating.

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PlantbasedBurger t1_j9ob1gi wrote

Normal - but also not often the case so I wonder what you’re doing and “where” - must be hot there or your case is also too thick etc.

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Time-Pick3831 OP t1_j9obxoz wrote

Replying to PlantbasedBurger (#1,936,836)

It happened in the car last time, and I can remember it happened with different types of cover. It also happened while I was running a VR video. It doesn’t happen too often of course but I don’t remember this happened with my cheap android phones ( 150$ or so) and I don’t understand why

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PlantbasedBurger t1_j9ochfr wrote

Replying to Time-Pick3831 (#1,936,935)

Car could be the heat - VR video could actually be quite intense if the resolution is high. Your cheap android phone probably doesn’t even have the power and brightness to begin with so it doesn’t need to throttle.

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