Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Make Your Phone Hot. Here’s How to Keep It Cool
Using Apple CarPlay and Android Auto can cause smartphones to overheat and drain battery life due to the high processing demands of mirroring apps. The article suggests using wired connections, managing charge limits, and keeping devices in cool areas to mitigate these issues.
Why it matters
As vehicle infotainment systems become increasingly reliant on personal smartphones, users need to understand how to maintain device longevity and performance.
Rather than putting up with whatever infotainment systems car manufacturers have put together, we're now able to interact with our phones from our car dashboards—with our contacts, our music, our podcasts, and our mapping apps all available. And the list of supported vehicles just keeps growing.
Both the Google and Apple solutions for this are really simple to use too. Most of the time they'll connect up automatically once you've done the initial setup. What you might not realize, though, are the demands that Android Auto and CarPlay put on your phone. Your handset is essentially doing all the regular phone stuff and then powering a large tablet-like display at the same time. That typically includes constantly updating a map in real time.
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