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Overheating iPhones: Sorry I'll have to call you back, I'm in a heat wave
The heat wave may have broken in the UK, but that hasn't stopped the world from noticing that Apple has released some support information concerned with overheating iPhones and using the devices in hot weather. We know, the words 'support information' chill us too (if you'll excuse the pun) so we'll summarise it for you - don't let your iPhone get too hot or it will stop working.
Although designed to work in temperatures that range from chilly to "will someone please let me out of this oven" (between 0ºC and 35ºC) trying to use one outside of these parameters could cause it to stop working, Apple has warned. The firm makes a number of recommendations, including telling people not to leave their iPhone in a hot car. Instead it recommends that you turn off the phone and move to somewhere cooler - like indoors maybe, or Iceland?
Although Sneak usually adjusts to the hot weather by making small changes to his daily routine - for example, storing his underpants in the office fridge - he can't help but wonder what this sort of announcement will mean to those holidaymakers planning on using their iPhones in St Tropez, St Lucia or some other summer hotspot. It's hard to imagine them stuffing the oh-so-trendy item anywhere but on permanent display. Besides, beach outfits tend to be low on pockets.
NB: The Apple support page was updated on 25 June. We would like to apologise for our lateness in bringing it to your attention, but Sneak works remotely and like the iPhone was struggling to work in the heat.
In areas where temperatures often exceed 35 C and cars are hot enough to burn your hands if (open to the air) in the sun and sometimes in the shade electronic devices often do not work and sometimes are destroyed by the heat.
On a recent trip both my cameras and cell phone stopped working every afternoon when the heat exceeded 38C.
You are just seeing a little of what happens in the sub-tropics and tropics.
Posted by GWBoucher | July 4, 2009 3:39 PM
yet again the public has been duped , were sold something at a vastly inflated price that dosnt work properly apple the new microsoft.
Posted by Dave | July 4, 2009 9:04 AM
The iPhone isn't the only one with this problem. My HTC Diamond runs warm when being used for GPS. During a heatwave it's black case, up by the windscreen where it can lock onto satellites, makes it even hotter. I've had it shut down several times.
Posted by Mark Emery | July 4, 2009 8:06 AM
Looks like using the Iphone in Dubai is out of the question as the temp there are touching over 40C
Posted by Aslam | July 3, 2009 6:20 PM
man apple suck... what happens if you live in almaty in kazakhstan?? 40 degrees in summer and -30 in winter....
Does it void the warranty living in a country with extremes of climate????
What happens if i am navigating to the north pole with google maps does it void my warranty? What if i am trying to get a signal while marooned in the sahara and hopefully be rescued and it stops working? is my warranty void then too????
And anyway, who wnats an iPhone like all the other plebs, when an htc touch of some decription is far more compatible with EVERYTHING and works in climatic extremes???? Mine worked fine in Almaty in summer and winter....
Bless your cotton socks Apple...LMAO
HEATWAVE>>>!!!
Posted by Chris Gates | July 3, 2009 5:07 PM
range from chilly to "will someone please let me out of this oven" (between 0ºC and 35ºC)
35ºC is inside an oven ? I sense you don't venture much past the borders of the computer room, and into say, the foreign exotic lands of the kitchen ? Oven you say ? Does it have an IP address I can ping. . . .?
Posted by Snarker | July 3, 2009 4:43 PM