iPhones may shut down in cold weather

iPhones, Android phones, music players, and other electronic things, if the weather is cold enough. Are we just trying to find anything bad to say about Apple so we can say it? Why is this on the front page?

Everyone I&#x27;ve ever skied with knows this already...<p>Anecdotally, my phone (LG) doesn&#x27;t whinge until it&#x27;s at least -15C outside.

I&#x27;d be surprised if all phones don&#x27;t have thermal range protection. At the very least the battery almost certainly does, not having it would be dangerous. Going into a partially operating state and giving warnings rather than just cutting off the battery is actually a nice feature that I doubt many phones have.

That&#x27;s common knowledge here in Canada :)

This is nothing new right? I learned the first day I went snowboarding with my iphone that it was useless to bring with me... at least without some thick rubber case.

Just as an addendum to this, I learned an expensive lesson about temperature changes in computers a few years ago.<p>I had a fancy Dell XPS gaming laptop and was at a LAN party with my friends, playing the latest and greatest. The computer was very hot to the touch. Well, it was time to pack up and leave, so I put my laptop in my flimsy backpack and took a 20min walk home in the freezing cold.<p>I get home and lo, the computer, ice cold to the touch, wouldn&#x27;t boot. Took it to the shop and the tech said that a few of the components were cracked and i&#x27;d need to replace them or get a new laptop.<p>That&#x27;s when it hit me; of <i>course</i> when you take something very hot and put it in something very cold, it&#x27;s going to break. Should&#x27;ve waited like 5 minutes instead of rushing out...

If you lived in a cold temperature with an iPhone for long enough, you learn to keep it close to your body when wrapping up for the outdoors. Sure, you need to pull it out for some functions and that&#x27;s awkward, but the gloves you are wearing get in the way of that too. These are general challenges of navigating the cold. I can see the irritation, but I&#x27;m in agreement with other Canadians here that this isn&#x27;t really news :)

I noticed last winter in Seoul. I could barely use my iPhone 6S Plus outside. I had to regularly walk in stores and blow on its back to warm it up. Super annoying when it turned off at the peak of a mountain and I couldn&#x27;t turn it on until I was half-way down.<p>It doesn&#x27;t tell you why it turns off either, I thought the battery was dead when it started regularly turning off around 20-40%

Isn&#x27;t this one of the primary reasons they were undervolting iphones? I thought this was already common knowledge.

This has been happening already for at least the past 4 winters. This was pretty common knowledge, right?

Also in hot weather. I don&#x27;t <i>store</i> my phone in my car, but I&#x27;ve brought it <i>into</i> my car when my car is above 95F (say, when it&#x27;s been parked and I get back to it) and had it shut down on me.<p>(I probably shouldn&#x27;t have bought a black car - that doesn&#x27;t help.)

We had -20C the other day. My samsung S8 was perfectly fine while in my pocket. At one point i placed it on my outdoor table and within a minute it showed a warning and then closed down (correctly closing down - not dying&#x2F;crashing).

Not too surprising. Definitely happened to me on the summit of a 14er in the Colorado Rockies last year. I was glad I had my DSLR as well as my iPhone 7...the Canon had no problems (it was only about 30F).

Same goes for Android. Got stuck hiking on a mountain once in windy 15F weather. Neither my friend&#x27;s iPhone nor my Android would stay turned on for more than a minute.

Of Course they do. My iPhoneX dies often these days to NYC weather. Was planning to go the Apple store to find out why.

Since I started Wim Hof method, I&#x27;m more immune to cold than my HTCOne. ( I have an old phone, I know )

I live in Canada, and this is not news.

iPhone also turns off it gets too hot. I left my black iPhone in my car&#x27;s cup holder once while the sun roof wasn&#x27;t being blocked and I picked it up and after it cooled down a bit turned right back on.

12 °F &#x2F; -11 °C.<p>On my bike.<p>Listening to Gorillaz on my Powerbeats 3.<p>They shut down after 5 minutes every time.

My iPhone stopped doing this when I had the battery changed

Designed by Apple in <i>California</i>.