phone charging pad overheating

[tjw68]

Anyone else's phone charge pad shut down frequently for overheating? The phone gets overly warm also.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Anyone else's phone charge pad shut down frequently for overheating? The phone gets overly warm also.

Wireless charging is inefficient and creates lots of heat. Combine that with gps, carplay/AA, navigation, streaming and Bluetooth and you have easily over worked your phone. If you just charge it without all that other stuff it will be fine.

 

[sv09matt]

Yeah, Ours always overheats so we just charge with a usb c cable.

 

[Beachcopper242]

Our charging pad has not shut down...yet, but yeah the phone is very warm when you remove it from the pad.

 

[TampaHoosier]

Wireless charging is inefficient and creates lots of heat. Combine that with gps, carplay/AA, navigation, streaming and Bluetooth and you have easily over worked your phone. If you just charge it without all that other stuff it will be fine.

This for sure!

Also, saw on another post that someone else is experience this problem but also noticed heat doesn't come out from floor vents. From the sounds of it, my guess is the floor vents are pinched and the heat is dumping or building up behind that same area the wireless charging pad is located. For those of you experiencing it, if you're also all using heat might be worth checking that out.

 

[JTaylor62]

I have a similar problem - with the phone getting hot. After reading your posts, I'm thinking for long trips, instead of placing it on the wireless charger, I may plug it in. I noticed after long trips, the Apple car play quits working. Then I lift the phone off the charger (so it cools?) and later place it back on -- and it works. I'm wondering if this is a direct relation to heat. For my next long trip (over an hour) I may plug the phone in and see if I can duplicate the problem.

 

[Sarge]

I have a lot of heat buildup under my center console area (drinks get hot, console gets hot inside) which I suspect is a vent that's not attached somewhere. Dealer looking into it.