Your phone could overheat this week. This is how you keep it from dying
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Temperatures are set to skyrocket over roughly two-thirds of the US and Canada this weekend, with some states feeling well over 100 degrees. Cooling off at a pool, lake, beaches or water parks won't just affect you -- it could also affect your phone. Phone batteries and high heats can be a volatile mix. When internal temperatures grow too high, your phone could shut off, at best. At worst, the battery could expand to dangerous levels, and even combust.
Implosions of the type that affected Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 in 2016 are rare. It's much more common for a phone to turn itself off when it gets too hot to function, and then you're left without a working phone. Worse, you might not even realize it.
Your phone will display a warning message if it's overheated and needs to shut down. It should work OK again once it cools down, but you may have to help it escape the heat.
Here are some tips to protect your phone in the heat and avoid that scary warning message that tells you it's going to stop working.
Source: https://www.cnet.com