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iPhone 6 overheat in iOS 8.1: possible fixes

• Egon Kilin
• January 12th, 2015

There are users out there who are still reporting iPhone overheat issues, even after updating to iOS 8.1, which was supposed to solve most of the problems owners had with previous iOS versions. Mind you, iPhone 6 overheat occurs a bit when charging, but that shouldn’t be worrisome, because according to Apple, it is a normal process. Nonetheless, users still complain about iPhone 6 overheat issues with the smaller phone and the iPhone 6 Plus, too, so there are phones out there which might be defective, with a corrupted install or with applications running in the background, draining power and causing the Apple A8 chip to overheat.

Besides overheating issues, iPhone 6 users have also reported battery draining in conjunction which overheat on Apple forums. The iPhone 6 overheat issues as well as battery drain could be caused by an application running in the background. Most users tried uninstalling Facebook and that seemed to have worked with them. The social media giant has been contacted about this issue and should eventually update the app. You can check which apps are draining the battery and get rid of them to see if it solves the iPhone 6 overheat issues as well. If that doesn’t work, you should try forcing your iPhone 6 or 6 Plus to reboot by simultaneously pressing the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons for 10 seconds.

Rebooting the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus won’t result in data loss, so that’s the easiest fix to try if you are experiencing iPhone overheat or battery drainage issues. If you are using intensive applications like Pandora, Waze or games, the overheating is pretty normal and won’t cause damage to your phone if you don’t abuse these apps. It still is a problem that should be addressed by Apple with a new iOS update. If these two solutions don’t work for you, you could also try a total restore, which will require a backup of your data since it will be lost in the process. You should restore the phone as new and then install apps one by one in a timely manner to see if one of them is causing the issues.

One of the easier ways to solve iPhone 6 overheat problems is to turn off Background App Refresh. You need to go to Settings, then General and turn the feature off. This fix seems to have helped a lot of people experiencing overheating and battery draining issues on their iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Turning off location based reminders could also help with battery draining issues. If nothing works, you should try to restore from backup using iTunes instead of using the OTA. Many have reported that by doing this, many of their issues, including the iPhone 6 overheat and battery drain problems were fixed. In case none of these fixes work for you, you should schedule an appointment in an Apple Store to have your device checked out by a technician and replaced or fixed. We hope these suggestions may help some of you! Let us know if any of these worked for you or if you have other solutions to iPhone 6 overheat problems in iOS 8.1.