As it generally goes with social media advice, viral posts telling iPhone owners to refrigerate overheated devices should be ignored as that will cause more damage than the heat itself. Here’s why, and what you should do instead.
Don’t put your iPhone in the refrigerator or freezer.
Don’t put your iPhone in the refrigerator or freezer.
It’s been a hot summer. Record-smashing high temperatures have been responsible for thousands of hospitalizations and deaths and made it miserable for hundreds of millions of people.
But it’s not just people, pets, and wildlife who suffer, either. These high temperatures haven’t been particularly kind to our digital devices.