According to a Twitter user, an iPhone X apparently got overheated and caught fire during the process of updating to iOS 12.1. The images of the aftermath were shared on social media and showed cracked glass and burn marks. The user claimed that this incident happened while he was charging his phone during the update process. He noticed that the phone started to overheat and removed the Lightning cable and the wall adapter. The phone soon emitted smoke and later exploded. The user as given information to Apple and the company is currently investigating as to what happened to this particular iPhone.

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Smartphones generally explode due to faulty batteries or due to unlicensed cables that tend to overheat the battery and the motherboard of a smartphone. It is not clear whether the user was using an official Apple Lightning cable or a third-party cable or whether it was faulty or not. There are no details about the charging condition either i.e. whether it was being charged on a flat surface in a cool environment. Apple has asked the user to send the phone to them for further investigation.

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Burnt images of the iPhone X was posted by Twitter user Rahel Mohamad who hails from Federal Way, Washington. The smartphone was bought 10-months ago in January. In a reply on Twitter to his original tweet, Apple Support said that this is definitely not expected behaviour and would wish to resolve it soon.

@Apple iPhone X just got hot and exploded in the process of upgrading to 12.1 IOS. What's going on here??? pic.twitter.com/OhljIICJan

Recently, a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and even Xiaomi's Mi A2 had exploded due to similar reasons. The Galaxy Note 9 exploded in a woman's handbag and as filed a case against Samsung.