Hot iPads can be worse than hot phones. Vapor chambers—which contain literal water that literally boils inside the device—are apparently in the works.
Hot iPads are a different kind of problem than hot phones. iPads are more often caseless, since many users keep them at home, and they often rest directly on a user’s lap. An iPad is also huge compared to a phone, and the Pro version is often used in processor-intensive ways—such as for music recording, gaming, and onboard AI apps, all of which can be slowed down for safety when that powerful M5 starts pulsating with heat.
But cutting-edge vapor cooling looks like it’s coming to the rescue. According to Mark Gurman, the Apple leaks guy at Bloomberg, a vapor chamber for the iPad Pro is now “on the company’s road map.
