I almost burned my iPhone with a proprietary charger from Steam Deck. Don’t repeat my mistake

Over the many years of owning iPhones of different generations, I long ago learned to charge my device only with a branded Apple charger. In my backpack there is always a white block with a modest 18 W and the original cable from the iPhone 15 Pro box. If my smartphone is running low, use only this setup.

And just the other day I discovered that I had left the cable and charging unit in the office. I didn’t want to use Chinese analogues randomly scattered around the apartment; I didn’t want to connect my iPhone 15 Pro to the original 45 W charger from the Steam Deck.

After half an hour I decided to check how the smartphone was doing and…

I didn’t expect that I would ever encounter something like this.

My iPhone literally turned off

Taking the device in my hands, I saw on the screen the warning that I had seen before just one time many years agowhen I accidentally left my iPhone in the car under the scorching sun in the middle of summer.

Everything was clear then: the temperature in the cabin was transcendental and the iPhone ordered to warn that for further operation it must be cooled to the appropriate temperature. Needless to say, the body was simply red-hot.

And the same thing awaited me in the case of the iPhone 15 Pro, which was charged from the included Steam Deck charger. The case was very hot, the device did not respond to button presses, and the screen was not ordered.

Of course, the iPhone was immediately disconnected from charging and placed on a cool windowsill. After 15 minutes the warning disappeared and turned off.

I would have thought that everything would have ended well, but that was not the case.

The maximum battery capacity has decreased

Last week I checked the battery parameters and the maximum capacity value was 100%. Now, after the incident with charging from the Steam Deck, this parameter has changed by 90%.

Moreover, a couple of days have passed and nothing has changed. Probably, overheating greatly affected the constancy of the built-in battery. Needless to say, my iPhone began to discharge noticeably faster during daylight hours.

Perhaps very soon I will have to take my device to a service center and spend money on a replacement battery. This could have been avoided if I hadn’t forgotten the original charger and cable, so Don’t repeat my mistake and try to charge your iPhone only with official chargers.

Yes, after this incident, all Chinese power supplies were thrown into the trash by default. From now on I only have two chargers and both are original from Apple. Others, I admit refusal, may turn out to be too expensive.