Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot
Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot

Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot

Apple has acknowledged user complaints that iPhone 15 and 15 Pro phones are overheating, reports Forbes, but said that contrary to speculation, it has nothing to do with the phone’s hardware design. Forbes noted an update to Instagram has already rolled out with version 302, released September 27th, to address some of the issues.
“Ew, you ran an APP on it? No wonder it over heated”
Ugh you ran OUR firmware on it? Well that shits too buggy
The article does a shit job of explaining why certain apps are a problem.
These are apps that have not been updated to play nice with iOS 17. And in the case of the biggest offender, Instagram, there are people in Apple forums reporting overheating issues with iOS 17 Instagram for 5 months.
Meta was incompetent. This bug is easy AF to reproduce. I find it hard to believe that no one at IG was running a dev beta or public beta. Every other phone in the valley is running these damn betas. Somehow they did not prioritize compatibility work for the latest yearly major release.
These betas and SDKs are provided 5-6 months before major OS releases. WWDC betas and the final release drop around the same time every year. This is like meta being surprised that Christmas came around at the end of December.
What exactly are these apps doing that can cause the phone to overheat?
I can imagine it's a collection of bugs where it's sorta the OS' problem but sorta the application's problem. It probably reached a stalemate. Nobody really wanted to spend the extra engineering effort; maybe it would all have to be undone then rewritten again to get something out in time.
It's like the thing where PCs work a lot better if you don't install any applications.