Crazy Screenshot Friday: iPhone Temperature Warning?
UPDATE: Anon in the comments points out that, per Apple knowledge base, it’s totally real. Boy, I need to move to a warmer country!
Jeff sent this in and none of us have ever seen it before (then again, it’s still cold in Montreal so I’d have to throw my iPhone in an oven to even try and test it):
Don’t sit next to a pool in Scottsdale Arizona when it’s 104 degrees or your iphone will melt away! So how to fix it fast? I put the iPhone between 2 cold beers and it worked!
Anyone else ever see this before?
May 8th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
im currently in iraq and we’ve already hit up in the 110’s and i havnt seen this yet, i guess im just lucky
May 8th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Apparently its real
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2101
May 8th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
LOL that’s hilarious, but I would still use mine even if this shot was real and not photoshopped. I would just bring it into Apple if it broke and got a refurb or brand new iPhone, depending on when this happend…
May 8th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
It is very real. I left my phone in the sun in cleveland Ohio and I saw that very screen. Eventually the phone worked wheni put it in the shade.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Yeah, it’s real, I’ve seen this happen before after leaving it in a car on a hot day for awhile
May 8th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
yup its totally real…i thought someone was joking with me when I heard them tell me about it a couple weeks ago…he left his phone in the car too long and overheated…
May 8th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Ive seen this. I also left my phone in the car last summer and it got very hot.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
It is real. I heard that Paris Hilton got this message on her iphone a while back. She exclaimed, “That’s hot.”
May 8th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
I don’t think this is real I see the same image when I plug my iPhone to my alpine car stereo but it doesn’t say anything about temperature it only advices that my device is not compatible… And by the way I’ve talked on my phone for 5 hours while it was plugged in charging ang I was on beta 4 and I never saw this fake screenie
May 8th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
And my phone was so hot it was burning my ear ( while it was pluged in charging)
May 8th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
@Tyler shut up you moron!
May 8th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
@Spidesol – Looks like you are the moron. Why bother posting your nonsense (in three consecutive posts no less) when you don’t even read what people have posted before you? It’s been established that this is a real screenshot. I’ve seen it on my 3G after leaving it in my car and checked out what it meant at Apple’s support site. Here’s the link (since you obviously missed it from post #3) http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2101
Maybe your plugged in iPhone not only burned your ear, but fried your brain as well.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:09 am
@Scott Rosenberg Thanks for getting my back, Scott.
May 9th, 2009 at 2:53 am
This is 100 percent real….I left my phone in the car all day because I work in a secure environment ……I came out pick my phone up and almost shitted a brick………I immediately threw it in my lunch cooler
May 9th, 2009 at 3:38 am
I live in Uzbekistan. And we have up to 60 degrees Celsius for about 40 days in the summer. Seems like I will need another phone to use during that period
. (I got my iPhone last autumn).
May 9th, 2009 at 4:01 am
That’s cool though. Giving you a warning before your phone explodes (or melts away). I always try to make sure my iPhone isn’t too hot. Glad this will show up if I get too careless.
May 9th, 2009 at 5:38 am
It’s very real, left the phone overnight on top of an overheating laptop.
May 9th, 2009 at 6:33 am
@Mr. High-Definition: You can’t do that because Apple states the operation temperatures and the information is openly available to you what temperatures the iPhone should NOT be used in. If you do this and your phone breaks, it is in violation of the warranty and Apple will not give you a new phone.
May 9th, 2009 at 7:22 am
It’s happened to me as well. It gets mighty warm in the hood….
May 9th, 2009 at 8:01 am
ive had that happen b4… and when skiing froze.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:09 am
@spidesol you are definitely the moron, not the person who made a mildly funny joke. This is obviously real, and just because the “device is not compatible” screen looks similar to the temperature one, doesnt mean the temp one cant be real too.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Wow mine gets pretty hot too sometimes but I’ve never seen that, it must have been at the point of selfdestruction. But it is kinda nice that it can warn u instead of other phones that just fry.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Hahaha good one
May 9th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
thanks for this! i’ve only had my iphone for about a month, but today it’s supposed to be 103 and its only May 9th. I’ve left my phone in my car a few times but will be much more careful as the wicked days of summer are fast upon us here in arizona. if it’s 115 outside i wonder now if i’ll be able to use my phone at all. i’ll have to carry an icepack LOL.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I have had that happen to me once. I left my phone on the dashboard of my car recording a GPS track in hot weather and when I got home, that screen came up. I put my iPhone in the freezer for a while and it fixed it! Pretty funny.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Yeah, I have to agree with others… And the exact string was found in a file on jailbroken phones.
May 9th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
This is real remember people the iPhone is not like a regular cell phone and like a computer it’s not good if it over heats. So leaving it in the car is the most stupid thing
May 9th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
It is real, happened to me 2 days ago, after I had left my iphone in the car for about an hour here in Greece, the temperature outside was about 23 Celsious degrees, but in the car with the sun hitting it, it could easily be around 40…
May 9th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Wow this isn’t good, because I’m a professional chef n always in da kitchen. I will deft have 2 go 2 walmart n get n ice pack for my phone.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Mmm, I need a warning when it is too cold. I once typed in a long email in the middle of nowhere near Montreal at -20 C and then backspaced one letter. The whole message was deleted one character at the time and I could just watch in horror. After that the keyboard adn the whole phone became almost unresponsive until I warmed it up. But in Cupertino it never gets cold, so no need for “iPhone needs to warm up” warnings… Too bad, I can think of a nice icon that would go with that.
May 10th, 2009 at 12:23 am
i live in Bullhead City, AZ (one of the hottest places on earth) where the temp can easily reach 135-138 in the summer and i’ve already seen this on a friend’s iphone after it was left in the car for a few hours and it hasnt gotten above 110
May 10th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Happened to me a month ago when I left my ipod in the car all afternoon on a hot day.
May 11th, 2009 at 10:34 am
I wouldn’t recommend ice packs or throwing your iphone in a cooler. Condensation that is likely to form will not only void the warrantee, but possibly do more damage than the heat itself.
May 11th, 2009 at 10:43 am
i had to exchange my work iphone a month ago due to this error…. granted, the phone must have been defective since i left it in a room where it’s a constant 65 degrees and it would give me this error after 20 minutes!
May 11th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Hey, it’s real! I’m the one who posted the photo! It was a surprise to me when it happened.
May 11th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
And the two beers did fix it by the way!
May 12th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Not to mention the heat is really bad for the LiIon battery – it will really shorten its life.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:19 am
i am sure this happened due to over charge, dropped or calling someone while charging coz only way to getout of this is pressing power & home button together till restart
May 20th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I actually saw this today on my phone. I had left it in my car on a warm day. It’s real. Absolutely. When I tried to use it, it would only allow for emergency calls–like when it is password lock and the number of attempts exceeds the allowable number. The glass was blistering hot, so maybe it is protective for the user also. But my real guess is that they phone doesn’t work as well at that heat. I just put it up to my car air conditioning for about a minute and the phone cooled enough to use.
May 31st, 2009 at 5:28 am
I get this message on my phone but its there everytime I turn it; the phone then goes into standby after a few seconds and I can’t use it!!! Any ideas from anyone as to how to resolve it; it only seems to have started after going to 2.2.1
June 9th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
this just happened to mine today after my son dropped it in the bathtub and turned the water on i decided to put it in my front seat for a little while to dry out. it must have been to hot because i get this message now. the bad thing is, it’s been about 6 hours, the phone is cool to touch now and it still won’t come on. maybe the moisture inside it. maybe it will work tomorrow.
September 7th, 2009 at 4:37 am
@Bryan:
Hot things in cold environment will not produce any condensation. Need to be a cool thing in an hot environment for that to happend, so putting your iPhone in the cooler is no problem and no worries for it to condensate. BUT, putting an icepack on your phone means that the icepack will condensate
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:41 am
yep because my iphone is doing it right now ! and how do i get rid of it !! HELPPP ??
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
change battery!!