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Heat problems have surfaced for all the iPads before the new iPad released recently. Of course, they were few and far in between and so it wasn’t given much of an importance. Random cases have popped up now, citing heat problems in the new iPad.

The Next Web first reported that an iPad user from Texas (as hot as it gets, eh?) reported that the new iPad switched off automatically after about an hour of usage under the sun. The error that was displayed said the iPad had overheated. As such, this is a bit alarming but it’s a very rare case and there are sufficient circumstances to consider – under the sun being on of them.



Much before the new iPad, the older iPads have also shown this warming up excessively / overheating issue albeit in very rare cases. With the new iPad, the issue has cropped up a bit early.

Now, there’s a difference between overheating and warming up beyond a certain average level. It could most certainly be the latter in all the cases that we found on forums. The new iPad’s working conditions are stated as:

Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)

Clearly, at temperatures above this range, your new iPad could develop heat problems.

Heating Up Near the Corner
However another interesting characteristic that we found was that the users were talking about one particular corner getting warmer than others. There are plenty of reasons for this too. One of the most prominent ones would be the new Retina Display HD on the new iPad. The GPU could be well overworked due to all the awesome pixel resolution and thus could cause the heating-up.

The third-gen iPad comes with a better battery and a powerful processor for all the high-resolution graphics that it wields. The main reason for all the warming-up scenario could be these two, but nothing can be established conclusively till experts from Apple get to the bottom of this.

Keep your iPad cool. It’s simpler to avoid problems that way. Do not use it right under the sun in hot temperatures. Try to switch it off once in a while so it doesn’t get overworked and thus overheated. Make sure to use up the HD-resolution qualities (gaming, HD movies etc.) wisely and not continuously.