Apple has acknowledged user complaints that iPhone 15 and 15 Pro phones are overheating, reports Forbes, but said that contrary to speculation, it has nothing to do with the phone’s hardware design. Forbes noted an update to Instagram has already rolled out with version 302, released September 27th, to address some of the issues.
It’s also just really hard to design devices at scale. Users will always come up with creative ways to blast your hardware apart.
That use-case was pretty obvious in retrospect, but it’s still hard to test and design for how hundreds of millions of people will use it. I think the entire industry learned from that debacle.