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[iPhone] Summer heat and the phone?

Try AZ with 110+ degree weather, along with a battery case charger to boot. It's gotten pretty hot, but keeps on working. Now that's a 4s, not sure about the 3gs...

reply to signmeuptoo
Modern electronics will typically have temperature sensors that shut down or slow down components long before damage can be done.

The iPhone will scale down it's operation until the temperature drops:
»www.cio.com/article/496507/iPhon···om_Apple
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reply to DarkSithPro
I've lived in Tucson, I know how hot it gets, I hear ya. I lived through 2 summers without a swamp cooler or AC in a hot metal trailer. People don't know hot until they've been to the desert during a heat wave. I remember 120 degrees I think.

Thinkdiff, it is a 3GS, so it isn't as modern as a new 4S, so I still wonder.
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Sorry for any confusion in my wording, I meant that it isn't as modern as a 4S, so I was wondering if it still have such a safety measure.

I might just shut it down when I am in the hot sun like that in the future.

Good to know it should have a safety measure in it, though I imagine the LCD and Battery still suffer.
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FWIW, iPad (at least gen. 1, not sure of the modern versions) shuts down at 95 degrees.

reply to signmeuptoo
I can tell you from experience that iPhones going back to at least if 3G model autodetect when they're too hot and ceased to function until they're cooled off. Left mine in the sun once while swimming with my wife, she nearly missed class because the phone was sitting in the sun and the timer didn't go off when the phone overheated.

Thanks guys! That's good enough for me.

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reply to signmeuptoo
While waiting for the iphone to become available on Verizon I had a droid for a year or so

One summer day I had been driving with my window down
I didn't realize the sun was blasting my phone in the holster on my hip
(I am in southern Az)

When I went to use it, most of the screen was black with just a slice of it with background showing
Then I noticed most of the phone was really really hot

I set it aside for a while and the screen became normal and phone worked fine right up to day FedEx brought me my iPhone....

reply to J E F F
Got that message on Saturday

got that message after about 20 minutes streaming pandora in the sun while on a charging dock.

the phone was searingly hot, glad it did this, as any hotter might have melted the solder joints...
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