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Your Smartphone may be overheating!!! Keep an eye out.

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Chestnut Sat 11-Jul-26 00:50:10

Just a reminder to keep an eye on your smartphone. I noticed mine was getting very warm, then realised it was showing no SIM card and no network. I asked Chat GPT for help and it suggested switching the phone off to let it cool and then try again. Well sure enough the SIM card and network were back.

Chat GPT says the phone can overheat in hot weather so remove its case and keep it somewhere fairly cool, not in a very hot room or in the sun, but not in a fridge either. And don't cool it too quickly, just switch it off to cool naturally.

It warms when charging, so don't fast-charge overnight and keep away from soft furnishings and cushions. The last thing any of us want is a fire.

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Chestnut Sat 11-Jul-26 00:54:06

I have to say, it was pretty scary to lose my SIM card and network because I thought my SIM card had overheated and died! Surely that means you lose your phone number? Anyway, I was a bit anxious for a while there.

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nanna8 Sat 11-Jul-26 01:38:37

I have noticed this from time to time and also with my iPad. I have also heard of fires starting connected with iPhones so I suppose it is good to turn them off for a while if this happens

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Dickens Sat 11-Jul-26 01:54:21

nanna8

I have noticed this from time to time and also with my iPad. I have also heard of fires starting connected with iPhones so I suppose it is good to turn them off for a while if this happens

Last year, my son was visiting. He went out to do some shopping and I settled down for a nap - only to be woken about 40 minutes later by a constant beeping noise which I didn't recognise.

I stumbled around the house still groggy from sleep trying to locate the noise - to discover it was a smoke alarm at the bottom of the stairs.

I could smell smoke... on investigating, I discovered he'd left his mobile phone on a sunny bedroom window upstairs

- and the battery had ignited. It burned the woodwork, but fortunately had not spread to the curtains... by the time I saw it, it was flaming away.

I'd never heard the smoke alarm in action before, which is why I couldn't initially locate the sound.

Thank goodness for smoke alarms.

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