I have a mild version of this issue and my phone hasn’t gotten hot since the day I set it up. I don’t think they’re related but it’s possible I guess.
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iPhone 15 Pro Max SEVERE Burn-in on my iPhone 15 Pro Max
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Well you obviously got a defective unit, right? Just return it.
Changed my mind. Just return the thing and get another.
What are we, beta testers?
What are we, beta testers?
Just means you don’t use Instagram. I don’t know why people keep thinking it’s all Apple’s fault. Instagram is a hot mess. Everyone I know who has problem with overheat has Instatrash running.
I definitely don’t use my iPhone bright at all. I see people like my sister and I wonder how she isn’t blind as she has her brightness all the way up. But even then, if Apple allows it as a setting they should guarantee it won’t ruin your display. That’s messed up. Sorry. I hope you get a new iPhone and have no further problems.
No way that would happen in a few days, also that’s got big bezels that’s not the new phone just the wallpaper, prove it’s the 15 series
I wonder if that’s Meta bullying Apple or Apple bullying Meta. 😂
All due respect, look at all my past posts. this is not a bait and switch or clout chasing.
Why do you disable that function? Is it a necessity? It looks like an extreme case of burn in by having the display permanently switched on (and charged) like in a store or something. Was it a new phone out of the box?
Also: why would you need a dark room to reboot? I don’t understand.
I would expect that level of screen burn in from a 2+ year old phone, but a phone less than 2 weeks old????? Return it ASAP, it doesn't make any sense!
It's showing app icons, which you'd have to try to keep the phone on to a home page in order to even show beyond a few seconds. And there is absolutely no way it can physically be burn in in such short time.
It's either an image retention issue, software bug, fault in the video driver, or something else. It's absolutely something to exchange for, but it's not burn in and people shouldn't be jumping to such a conclusion and freaking everybody else out.
It's either an image retention issue, software bug, fault in the video driver, or something else. It's absolutely something to exchange for, but it's not burn in and people shouldn't be jumping to such a conclusion and freaking everybody else out.
Disabling that function seems common to me. There are recent threads like "Help, my 15 Pro is super dim compared to my 14 Pro" because their 14 Pro had that setting disabled and the 15 Pro was enabled. The brightness still dims with that setting disabled. It just lets the "100%" level actually go to a brighter level.
Like mentioned. All 5 of my OLED iPhones had that disabled and no problems. 2 of those phones I used for 2 years the same way I used the 15 for less than 2 weeks...
I don't need a dark room to reboot, I need darkness to see the burn-in. Last night, the burn-in was most noticeable at 10%-60% brightness in a dark room and even more noticeable with "Night Shift" enabled. As soon as I went 100% brightness, it was much harder to see even at night. I have video recordings using my SO's phone of the YouTube video playing that when the video would ramp up a percentage of Gray to White, the video would bloom bright, the apps/images would not show as much, then when it went to the normal grayscale image, there was the burn-in again, clear as day.
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So you call the OP a liar, and somehow I get a moderator warning for saying you shouldn’t speak to a human that way. This is f’d up.
If I have an issue with a device, especially soon after purchase, first I go to Apple. Then I may report what Apple's response was to the internet. What is it with folks first rushing to make sensational internet posts? Clickbait? What?
Actually it can happen in less than a week. I purchased a 12 pro max and used it next day as my gps and docked it in my car, it was hot and in sunlight all day as I drove and sadly it did have a burn in less than week of owning it. I returned it the next day. So it is possible.
My sister-in-law has the heat issue and she doesn't have instagram installed, nor anything else from Meta. According to my brother it gets really hot when running the Apple camera app.
Just repeating what I've been told. I don't know anyone else with a 15 of any flavor.
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The 14 Pro also gets really hot when running the Apple camera app. The trick is to learn to turn off the app after each batch of image captures; just click on the right-side button. I learned to do that decades ago to save battery on pro Nikons, and it is now automatically in muscle memory.
I actually find the 15 PM substantially improved over the 14 P as regards the heat management (and everything else). But misuse of the camera will make even the 15 PM warm up.
This is an internet forum discussing Apple products, why wouldn't someone post something like this here?
And how is this sensationalist? OP is honestly documenting a strange case that a lot of people on this forum would find interesting.