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Think I've found the cause of this; after a patch, the setting in Video->Deinterlace was blank (unset). When I changed this to Off, the phone stopped overheating while playing the videos. It must have read the blank value as 'Automatic', which translated to 'On' in my case. Maybe worth updating in t...

Since version 3.1.0, the iPhone X has been heating up considerably when playing back HEVC videos - to the point of the device automatically dimming the screen in an attempt to reduce the power output. This was definitely not an issue before 3.1.0, and seems to be related to the "Stability and p...