// Hacker Noon · 2 June 2026

What Happens When You Max Out an iPhone: Thermal Throttling in Real-Time AR

Run ARKit, LiDAR, Metal, and a background upload at the same time and an iPhone gets hot. When it does, iOS quietly throttles the GPU, drops your frame rate, and degrades AR tracking with no crash and no error. Here is how thermal pressure actually breaks a real-time AR app, why ProcessInfo.thermalS...

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