How to Fix iPhone Overheating Issue

Is your iPhone 6, iPhone 6s or iPhone SE overheating during charging or playing games? And you are wondering about "why my iPhone is overheating?" There are some tips to fix iPhone Overheating issues for you.

1. Disable Background App Refresh

You may not know that the apps running in the background are messing up your iPhone. It can not only impact the battery life of your device, but can also cause it to overheat. In order to solve this problem, you can go to Settings, General, and tap on Background App Refresh. The easiest solution is to disable the option for all the apps, and in order to do so, just press the switch. You can disable this options for some apps only.

2. Disable Sync for Safari

This solution solved the iPhone overheating issue for many iOS device users. To disable Sync for Safari, head over to Settings, open iCloud, and deactivate sync for Safari. After some seconds, you’ll see the change, and the iPhone overheating problem will be solved.

3. Restart Your iPhone

Restarting your iPhone can make your overheating iPhone calm down. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the red slider appears. Then drag the slider to turn your device completely off. After the device turns off, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button again until you see the Apple logo.

4. Update iOS

It is essential to download the latest version of iOS when it becomes available, because it brings bug fixes and improvements in various fields, thus, it will improve the perfomance of your device.Once the iPhone has backed up, go to Settings and tap on “General”, followed by “Software Update”. When you see an update available, choose “Install Now”. When the update complete installation of itself, the device will automatically reboot and boot back up as normal when finished.

5. Erase All Content And Settings

This is effective, but should be taken as a last resort. You should back up the files on your device to iCloud or PC backup. Because this method will erase all your content and settings on your iPhone. 

You just need to go to “Settings > General > Reset” and then choose “Reset All Contents and Settings”, then you will get all the files in your iPhone erased.

With the five methods above, you are able to solve the issue if your iPhone is overheating. There  is another tip that you'd better not using your iPhone when it's charging. Some people have habit of using their iPhone while it is being charged. This is not good practice and not recommend in any case. When the iPhone is getting charged, there is current passing through the battery due to which is already in heat.