Eli5: Why do smartphones not need cooling fans like other computers do?

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Everybody always talks about the massive computing power of smartphones (movies love the moon mission comparison) but still my phone rarely gets hot. (Only when I use it while charging sometimes)

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They’re engineered to have sufficient passive cooling for typical use scenarios. There are circumstances that don’t fit into this typical scenario and phones do have secondary control methods such as throttling performance and finally even shutting down to protect itself from overheating to the point of damaging the device.

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