What happens when your iPhone overheats

I live in Los Angeles. The other day one of the radio stations was giving away a trip to Texas. First prize was a 2 night stay. Second prize was a week long stay.

Wow. I live in Texas and boated with my iPhone last summer while playing music through the boat speakers. No heat issues on the 100+ degree days.

I have never seen this. That is crazy. I know they have issues in the cold, but not the heat. I guess I won't store my in the oven.

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I live in the UK and this has only happened to me once, when I was in Australia and I left my iPhone on the passenger seat in the car on a sunny day, needless to say it was baked. It was hot to the touch and the temp screen was suprising.

I have already seen this on an iPhone left in a closed, locked car here in Arizona. it goes away when it cools off.

I didn't realize this was news, or I would have taken a screenshot a couple months ago when I left my iPhone (running 2.0 firmware) in the car on a sunny spring day. It took me about 15 minutes of holding it up to the A/C vent to get it cooled down enough that it would let me use it. Pretty funny. You can still slide to get the keypad in case you need to make an emergency call.

If we had A2DP, we could simply pop the iPhone into that garage freezer and stream to the receiver...

You can see the iPhone demonstrating this at [Link Removed] if you can figure out how to raise the temperature...

My wife and I were washing our cars a few weeks ago. It was one of the first real sunny days in awhile. I plugged my iPhone into a boom box dock to play while we washed. I sat it just inside the garage door to keep from getting water on it. The shadows shifted before we finished her car. Suddenly, the music stopped and I had that same temperature warning screen. I left it inside to cool down. Then I wondered if there was an API someone could use to convert the iPhone into a thermometer.

I like how iPhone refers to itself in the 3rd person!