For these of us within the Western Hemisphere (sorry, Australian readers), the summer season is bringing hotter climate – which makes it more and more tough to maintain our tech cool and our iPhones from overheating.

Helpfully, Apple has built-in a temperature warning system into iOS that can set off the next alert ought to your iPhone get too scorching: “iPhone wants to chill down earlier than you need to use it.” Cue panic. 

iPhones perform finest at temperatures between 32F to 95F (0C and 35C), however as soon as this message pops up, they enter a coma-like state the place emergency calls are about the one job they’re in a position to perform till they’ve cooled again down once more. 

So, how do you cease your iPhone from overheating? And what must you do when you’re met with Apple’s temperature warning message? We’ve already detailed the very best methods to cease your smartphone overheating in a separate article, however on this information, we share Apple-specific steering to guard the one that you love iPhone from heat-related hurt. 

For starters, the very best – and maybe most evident – method to shield your iPhone from overheating is to keep away from utilizing it for lengthy durations in direct daylight. Not solely does the warmth from the solar fairly actually make the telephone hotter in your hand, however the elevated glare may also encourage you to whack up your iPhone’s display brightness to the max – which in flip additional worsens the danger of overheating. 

After all, checking the odd textual content or switching Spotify tracks whereas sitting within the solar’s highlight gained’t do your iPhone any hurt, nevertheless it’s sensible to keep away from utilizing your machine in such a approach for longer than 5 minutes (benefit from the solar as a substitute – Instagram can wait!). 

Enjoying power-hungry cellular video games or streaming high-quality movies for prolonged durations of time could make your iPhone warmth up, too, however these components alone shouldn’t set off the aforementioned temperature warning except you’re additionally sitting within the solar. 

Even so, activating your iPhone’s Low Energy Mode (by swiping down on the Management Middle and choosing the battery icon) ought to cut back the danger of app-induced overheating. In case you do not see the battery icon, you might want so as to add it to Management Middle by going to Settings > Management Middle > Customise Controls, then including the Low Energy Mode there.

However what in case your iPhone does overheat? What’s the easiest way to return it to good work order? Properly, based on Shield Your Bubble director James Brown (by way of The Solar), there are two iPhone settle down strategies that you just positively shouldn’t attempt. 

“Even when your telephone comes with the best score of water resistance, it’s a nasty concept to submerge your telephone in chilly water to forcibly settle down,” Brown says. 

Equally, putting your iPhone in a fridge, freezer or water cooler can be an enormous no-no. “Doing so will trigger condensation to type inside your telephone, which is able to harm the machine in the long term,” Brown warns.

Apple’s official recommendation for cooling down an overheated iPhone is far less complicated: “To renew use of your machine as shortly as doable, flip it off, transfer it to a cooler atmosphere (away from direct daylight) and permit it to chill down.”

In follow, we’d advise leaving your overheated iPhone within the shade, in a cabinet, subsequent to a fan or on a cool kitchen countertop till Apple’s temperature warning disappears. Within the meantime, take a couple of minutes to get pleasure from a digital detox – decreasing your display time may simply decrease your stress ranges, too.