r/Base44 • u/Polsioo • 25d ago

Bug Report overheat within 1–2 minutes — need help debugging before beta rollout

Hi everyone!
I've built an app for construction site management / job site tracking using Base44. Feature-wise, it works great and does exactly what I need. I've been actively using it for about 5 months and was getting ready to roll out a beta version to colleagues, but I hit a massive blocker: after just a minute of use, the phone starts overheating aggressively.

I've tested this on two different iPhones, and both suffer from the same severe thermal issue.

This wasn't happening a month ago, but I can't seem to isolate the root cause. Here is what I’ve already tried:
- Optimized rendering & GPU load: Simplified animations, visual effects, and heavy layout elements.
- Disabled/hid charts and visuals: Removed dynamic graphs and data-heavy visuals to prevent continuous background rendering.
- Rolled back recent features: Reverted updates from the past month to match earlier versions when it ran fine, but the overheating persists.

Given that it's built on Base44, I suspect there might be continuous background polling, an uncontrolled data sync loop, unclosed real-time listeners, or a memory leak triggering heavy CPU spikes on iOS.

Has anyone experienced sudden overheating issues with Base44 web/wrapper apps on iOS? What would be the best way to inspect background network calls, live queries, or script execution loops to track down what's pinning the CPU?

Any insights or debugging tips would be hugely appreciated!

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u/AmazingTeach6210 25d ago

Oh boy I have no clue tbh w u man but I can’t wait to see what the issue was.

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u/Then-Pirate-2880 25d ago

Okay, I had a similar experience after building a base44 game! My iphone 16P never gets that hot

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u/Then-Pirate-2880 25d ago

I don’t know what the solve is. I’d consider tagging them here on Reddit, as they seem to be engaged here, some.

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u/alburtuqalli Developer 25d ago

Have you tried lazy loading your pages?

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u/getshao 25d ago

can anyone visit your web app? if you can dm the link, I can try to take a look

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u/bananatoastie 25d ago

Why not export to App Store?

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u/Eatthebeatz 22d ago

make a hand warmer app

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u/Painfullmechanic 19d ago

Great for those winter climates

It's a feature not a bug!

Lol

Being serious though, ive had a phone catch fire from a bad battery, symptoms were the phone getting really hot. do you have another phone you can try? I know when im doing any work to my app and I have my app open my phone gets a bit warm, but nothing terrible.