Playing a game on your smartphone is really fun. But it’s really bothersome when your smartphone overheats. This makes holding your smartphone uncomfortable and can ruin your gaming session. The heat on smartphones is different based on the model. Most brands today are racing to create a gaming smartphone with excellent performance yet will not overheat. Still, most gaming smartphones available in the market today are expensive, so not many can buy them.

But what about gamers who owned a mid-range gaming smartphone that often overheats when playing a heavy game? Today Dunia Games will share some tips to cool down your smartphone. Go ahead and read the tips below.

1. Close All Apps

An overheating smartphone indicates that it’s running a lot of apps. The number of open apps causes the processor and RAM to keep on working which leads to the battery running empty quicker and overheating.

To minimalize this, you can close all apps running in the background and focus on running the app you are going to run, for example, a game. This is the best method that you can do to avoid lags that are caused by other apps that runs in the background.

2. Don’t Play While Charging

Overheating is often caused by playing on your smartphone while it’s charging. This will affect the performance of your smartphone because the smartphone has to work twice, running the app and stopping the energy from entering the battery. It leads to your smartphone to overheat. It also negatively impacts the battery, because doing so will shorten the battery life.

Despite this issue, most smartphone brands are competing to develop a smartphone that can be used while charging. Although those smartphones are quite expensive.

3. Remove the Casing

A case can protect your smartphone from getting scratch or getting dents. But it’s not recommended to use a case while you are playing games on your smartphone. It’s crucial since a case blocks the heat coming from your smartphone making it overheat quicker than usual.

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4. Avoid Using Data Network

To make sure that your smartphone doesn’t overheat, you can avoid using the data network from your sim card, especially when you are playing in a room. This will lead to your smartphone working harder to get the signal so the game can keep on running. Your smartphone will heat up faster and may result in losing the signal until you can cool it down. The best solution is to connect to a WiFi network with a good signal so it can lighten the workload in your smartphone.

5. Avoid Running Heavy Apps

One of the things a smartphone user often does is downloading a game or app without checking the specs. This causes the app or game to not work optimally because the smartphone’s specs are below the requirement.

If your smartphone got Snapdragon 460 and 6GB of RAM, it doesn’t mean that your smartphone can run Genshin Impact smoothly. Always make sure to download and run apps or games that your smartphone can run.

6. Play Inside an Air-Conditioned Room or Near a Fan

The next step to cool down your smartphone is by playing near a fan or inside an air-conditioned room. This is an effective way to cool down your smartphone.

Your hands feel will a lot cooler because of the fan or the AC. but as a consequence, you may get sick from staying near a fan or inside an air-conditioned room for too long.

7. Use an Accessory

There are many smartphone accessories that can help reduce the heat coming from your smartphone. From a gamepad with a cooler to a water cooling system for your smartphone to reduce the heat.

But these accessories are quite expensive. Not to mention some of those accessories can only reduce the heat by only a few degrees.

Those are the tips to cool down your overheating smartphone. Hopefully, you find the tips helpful! Stay tuned for more information about games and don’t forget to follow Dunia Games on Facebook and Instagram.

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