Once the iPhone 15 Pro overheating complaints started piling up, I said I hoped the iPhone 16 wouldn’t also be impacted by overheating issues. I said I expected the iPhone 15 Pro’s chip to power the base iPhone 16 models next year. The best way to prevent overheating issues would be to improve cooling, rather than rely on software.
After that, Apple did indeed release an iOS 17 update to fix bugs in the operating system. iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max users reported that the fix reduced overheating instances without impacting performance. But other people said that their phones were still plagued by overheating issues. As I said more than once, some overheating is normal for smartphones, especially when gaming or running apps that tax the processor.
