How to Fix iPhone Overheating When Charging with 9 Ways?

Category: iPhone Issues

October 29, 2024 3 mins read

We should all have encountered this problem: You plug in your phone, hoping that it can charge smoothly, but after a while, when you want to check on it, you realize that your iPhone overheating when charging and cannot be touched.

Though this is a common iPhone problem, having an overheating iPhone could reduce your iPhone's performance and cause battery issues. What's worse, it may 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 11/12/13/14/15/16 gets hot when charging? Before going over the iPhone getting hot 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 and 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 due to external causes, you can try the following three methods to cool down your iPhone.

1 Check Your Charging Accessories

Please double check that you are using the official Apple charger and charging cable. Third-party charging accessories can overload the battery, causing the iPhone gets hot when charging problem.

In addition, please stop charging promptly if your iPhone is getting hot while charging, as excessive heat can damage both the battery and internal components over time.

Note

Wireless charging typically generates more heat than wired charging. Therefore, your iPhone may get warmer while charging wirelessly, especially with MagSafe. You can solve this problem by stop using wireless 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 hold charge finally.

So, please move your iPhone to 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, making your iPhone hot when charging.

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 iPhone Overheating When Charging Due to iOS System Glitches

iPhone 13/14/15/16 gets hot when charging issue is probably due to the iOS system glitches, which may lead to higher processing demands and in turn generate more heat.

In such cases, updating the iOS to the latest version can be one solution. However, if this method doesn't work, the ultimate solution is using an iOS system repair tool.

By fixing bugs that cause excessive heat, Fixppo can reduce the amount of heat generated by your iPhone so that it stays at a moderate temperature while charging, optimize charging efficiency and reduce the likelihood of unnecessary heat generation.

Key Features of iMyFone Fixppo:

• No Data Loss: Easily resolve iOS software errors that cause iPhone overheating while charging without losing data.
• Maintain Battery Health: Reinstall the iOS system to stabilize the device and keep the battery in healthy state.
• Quick & Cost-effective: A faster and more affordable alternative to an Apple store visit, saving the potential costs of hardware repair.
• Easy-to-use & Powerful: Fix iPhone battery draining fast, iPhone battery stuck won't turn off, etc.
• Wide Compatibility: Support all iPhone 11/12/13/14/15/16 running iOS 17/18.

Want to fix the iPhone overheating when charging problem and cool down your iPhone immediately?

You can download and install Fixppo first, then follow to see how it works on this problem.

Step 1: Launch Fixppo and use a USB cable to connect your iPhone to the computer. Choose Standard Mode, which can solve the iPhone overheating issue without losing data.

Step 2: Fixppo will automatically detect 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, Fixppo will begin to fix the iPhone 11/12/13/14/15/16 gets hot when charging issue. 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 learn from your daily charging routine and minimize the possibility of iPhone overheating while charging.

2 Free Up iPhone Storage

Your iPhone needs CPU and GPU to process tasks whether it is charging or not. 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 avoid the worse situation like iPhone turns off due to full storage, please go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage, where you can find all downloaded apps and how much storage they have taken 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.

However, it will make 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 apps 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 heats up when 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 it from the home page, choose 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 use 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 the possibility of iPhone heat while charging.

6 Check Damaged Battery

All above solutions are for solving the iPhone overheating when charging issue. 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.

You can take your iPhone to the Apple Support Center, where you can get the professional assistance to resolve this problem.

We've listed 9 solutions to the issue of iPhone overheating when charging due to either external or internal causes. Hope you can get help from them.

Among them, iMyFone Fixppo is tested by many users to be the easiest solution to fix not only this iPhone charging issue but also a series of other iOS problems. Free download it to have a try today!

Melvin Cooper

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