Is it just me or is iPhone 15 Pro Max actually working fine?






That was the first thing that struck me this year when setting up the 15 Pro Max — it was so simple. I commented on that fact last week on my Minus Sixteen podcast. OK — it’s fair to say that after all these years Apple should have the technique down to a fine art, but somehow this year it was even more slick than before. It started a couple of days before with a reminder to back your phone up ahead of the iPhone 15 Pro Max arriving, but the actual transfer was quick — I mean really quick!

And here is the first point to make — the 15 Pro Max didn’t get hot. It got ever so slightly warm but that was it. If I think back to the Google Pixel 7 Pro that I tested earlier this year there was no comparison. That thing got so hot that I thought I was causing it damage! The 15 Pro Max on the other hand installed all my apps and did an OS update without barely breaking a sweat and all on the original, out-of-the-box charge.That’s not to say that there hasn’t been an issue with overheating though. Over the weekend Apple admitted that certain third-party apps such as Instagram & Uber, had overloaded the system and caused some heat issues and a fix will be sent out very quickly to sort it.