@heynavtoor: I walked into the Apple Store last week with an iPhone too hot to hold. "Is something wrong with it?" The technician ra…
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A user shares a technician's advice that two default iPhone settings cause overheating and shorten battery lifespan, urging others to change them.
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I walked into the Apple Store last week with an iPhone too hot to hold.
“Is something wrong with it?”
The technician ran every test. Everything came back normal.
Then he leaned in and said something I’ll never forget:
“There are 2 settings turned ON inside your iPhone right now that are slowly cooking it. Apple turns them ON by default. They quietly shorten your iPhone’s lifespan.”
I asked the obvious question: “So Apple is wearing out my own phone on purpose?”
He didn’t answer.
Here’s everything he showed me in the next 5 minutes (save this, your iPhone will thank you):
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