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Screen Skills 📲 · Jul 14, 2026

Your Phone Is Not Built for Summer Heat. Here Is How to Protect It.

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Alexander Verbeek · Screen Skills 📲

Plus: The one thing you should never do when your phone overheats, how to keep your laptop safe in a hot car, and how to stop Gmail from drafting replies in your own voice.

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Last week I was sitting outside in Oslo, working on my laptop during what passes for a heat wave here, when the fan started running at full speed, and the screen dimmed on its own. I knew what was happening — the machine was protecting itself — but it made me think about how many people see that same thing and assume something is broken.

Heat is one of t…

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