{"id":8681,"date":"2023-08-01T16:08:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2023-08-01T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:54:12","slug":"keep-your-apple-devices-cool-in-the-summer-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/keep-your-apple-devices-cool-in-the-summer-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Apple Devices Cool in the Summer Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 2023 was the hottest month on record for the planet, at least until July 2023. Among the many ill effects of such heat are what it does to iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and other digital devices. Excessive heat shortens the overall lifespan of lithium-ion batteries and increases the likelihood of both transient errors and hardware failures\u2014iPhones warn you when they\u2019re getting too hot because of these issues. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple recommends<\/a> using nearly all its devices in conditions no hotter than 95\u00baF\/35\u00baC and storing them in locations that don\u2019t\u00a0exceed 113\u00baF\/45\u00baC. (The exception is the adventurous Apple Watch Ultra, which can be worn in <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT204508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temperatures up to 130\u00baF\/55\u00baC<\/a>.) The most common place to avoid is a car parked in the sunshine on a hot day, which can easily exceed 130\u00baF within an hour and rise from there. So don\u2019t leave your iPhone in the car during an afternoon at the beach!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9937\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/keep-your-apple-devices-cool-in-the-summer-heat-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by iStock.com\/Jorge Garcia Argazkiak)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2023 was the hottest month on record for the planet, at least until July 2023. Among the many ill effects of such heat are what it does to iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and other digital devices. Excessive heat shortens the overall lifespan of lithium-ion batteries and increases the likelihood of both transient errors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,467,880,8,25,112,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-apple-watch","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8706,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions\/8706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}