Watch: iPhone explodes while family sleeps | 'We were extremely lucky to avoid a house fire' - WCPO 9 Cincinnati

GREEN TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Plugging our telephone successful is thing we each bash earlier going to furniture astatine night. No 1 expects to aftermath up and find it melted successful a heap of soot. That's what happened to Brian Leisgang and his household astatine their location successful Green Township.

Around 1 a.m. Monday, an iPhone 4 that his children usage was charging connected the room antagonistic erstwhile it burst into flames. The tiny blast was caught connected a motion-detecting camera successful the surviving room.

iPhone 4 catches occurrence portion household sleeps

He, his woman and his 5 young kids slept done everything and didn't announcement thing was incorrect until they were getting acceptable for schoolhouse and enactment that morning.

"There were tiny pieces of the telephone and achromatic soot each implicit the counter," Leisgang said.

Leisgang told WCPO helium went to furniture astir 30 minutes earlier it happened and that it could've been truthful overmuch worse.

"We were highly fortunate to debar a location fire," Leisgang said. "Luckily we had conscionable cleaned disconnected the counter."

Leisgang said usually that portion of the room is filled with schoolbooks, homework, and assorted different papers that could've easy caught fire.

He believes the occurrence apt burned itself retired wrong a fewer minutes due to the fact that his fume detector did not spell off.

Leisgang said helium bought the telephone caller a agelong clip agone erstwhile it archetypal came retired and present lets his kids usage it. He said he's ne'er had the artillery replaced and he's ever utilized an Apple charger.

Leisgang said helium shared the video connected societal media successful hopes of helping to forestall a occurrence successful idiosyncratic else's house.

WCPO reached retired to Apple for a comment, but they declined to sermon the Liesgang's situation.

What happened to the Leisgang household is not an isolated incidental with smartphones.

The European Union launched an probe successful 2009 aft "multiple instances of iPhones and iPod Touches exploding oregon catching occurrence midflight were reported successful the U.K., Holland, France and Sweden," according to ABC News,

In 2012, tech website CNET reported that a Colorado pistillate woke up to a "sizzling iPhone 4" adjacent to her edifice bed. More recently, successful 2021, a Samsung Galaxy A21 caught occurrence connected an Alaska Airlines flight.

Your smartphone randomly exploding is highly unlikely, and according to experts, it astir ever has to bash with the battery.

Many smartphones, including the iPhone 4, are made with a lithium-ion battery. According to the tech work website "PC Mag," if thing goes incorrect with the interior components of the battery, it tin interruption down, overheat and make a unsafe absorption that could origin a fire.

Here are immoderate things that summation the hazard for a telephone occurrence oregon artillery explosion, according to PC Mag:

• Physical damage
• Leaving the telephone successful the prima for excessively long
• Malware overworking the CPU
• Phone accumulation flaws
• Batteries degrade implicit clip truthful the older the device, the much apt a telephone is to overheat

How bash to forestall your telephone from exploding?

Again, the likelihood of this happening is highly rare. But if you are inactive disquieted astir it, present are a fewer suggestions from PC Mag connected however to bounds your risk:

• Get a telephone lawsuit to trim harm from drops
• Avoid utmost temperatures
• Don't screen your telephone portion it's charging
• Practice bully artillery hygiene (keep your telephone charged betwixt 30% and 80% astir of the time)
• Use the close charger
• Take attraction of your cables
• Lookout for malware