Instagram is held accountable for the iPhone 15’s heating problems.
Social media hot takes regarding Apple’s iPhone 15 overheating issue are starting to blame Instagram for the problem.
There have been complaints that the iPhone 15 series overheats while under stress, such as when it is occasionally charging or being used for intense gaming. But it appears that utilising it for Instagram, a more commonplace application of the smartphones, could potentially cause overheating incidents.
In his review of the iPhone 15 Pro, Marques Brownless, alias MKBHD, talked about battery life and overheating and acknowledged that he had experienced the latter, “but not what I would expect.”
MKBHD recalls using the iPhone to take video during a golf event in hot conditions, and the iPhone performed without a hitch. However, the YouTuber experienced a five-minute period when the iPhone got hot and used about 5% of its life while flying back, while Spotify was streaming and she was scrolling through Instagram.
Along with a screenshot of the Battery section of the Settings menu, Brownlee claims that “there almost seems to be no rhyme or reason why it does this randomly every so often.” According to the screenshot, Instagram was using the most battery at the time, with Spotify coming in second place with 15% utilisation.
Brownlee continues by suggesting that short-term solutions may include bug fixes and app updates.
The iPhonedo tech reviewer Faruk discovered a comparable issue with Instagram on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. He put the notion to the test by running Instagram on an iPad Pro, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max that had all been updated to iOS 17 and iPadOS 17.
In tests, it was discovered that running Instagram while “almost doing nothing” with the app used 10% of the battery in ten minutes.
Instagram on iOS 17 appears to be the smoking gun in the iPhoneDo testing, however not all users are affected by the issue. The YouTuber acknowledges that the problem only affects a “small group of people,” as opposed to being a more widespread issue.
