It’s summer! How to protect your smartphones from overheating

Tec🍰ꦯh is expensive, and there are endless ways to ruin yours.

While we’re talking money, . 

Now, some bad news: Your smartphone hates t🌺he heat.

Smartphones work best between 35 and 95 degrees.

Colder or hotter, you risk hardware damage and shorter batter🔯y life. 

So, what can you do when there’s record-breaking h﷽eat?

Steps to protect your phone

You can keep your phone happy, no൲ matter ♊the weather, with a few simple steps.

Stick to the shade.

Be careful not to set your phone in the sun.

Aim for the sha🌞de if you’re outꦡside — or even in the car.

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Don’t set it on the sunny passenger’s seat.

That’s a one-way drive to overheating.

Take off your phone case.

They trap heat, which can be more or less problematic depending on the material it’s made from.

Just be extra caref🍒ul not to drop it and crack your screen.

I keep one of thﷺese screen protectors on for this very reason.

Stuck outside or in a warm room?

You🏅 want to make your phone as lightweight as you can, proc♏ess-wise.

Turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and demanding apps.

Games with lots of grap♓hics, video streaming and othe𝔉r resource-intensive tasks can s and cause it to overheat.

Your computer is at risk, too

This can happen any time 𝓀of year, but the hotter it is, the more likely your laptop or even desktop can overheat.

And like your phone, t๊oo-hot temperatures can do some real damage to the internal components.

Try these steps.

Bust the dust: You’ll need a small screwdriver set, a can of co🌱mpressed air (or ) and some cotton swabs. 

• Shut down your computer, unplug it and open the case.
• Gently use the compressed air or duster to clean out the fan, vents and ducts. 
• Wipe any buildup away gently using cotton swabs. Just be sure you don’t leave behind little strings of cotton.
• Put the case back on and plug everything back in.

Improve your laptop’s airflow.

Your computer can overheat if it can’t circulate enough air to stay c🀅ool.

Make sure it’s sitting on a hard surface lik🍌e a desk.

If you lay your laptop on a bed or blanket, the unev🍰en surface blocks the vents and can cause overheating.

Put it on a book, a tray or a cooling pad to keep ai𓄧r flowing. 

Close everything you can. Yep, too many processes can cr♛eate too much heat in your PC or laptop, too.

Doz♑ens of tabs could be heati🔜ng things up more than you think.

Restart your computer while you’re at it to close down processes 𝕴running in the background.

Real talk: A power outage during💧 a heatwave could be deadly.

ꦗI wrote about the steps to take now t𒈔o keep yourself safe.