Is it only safe to run Microsoft Copilot on a Apple device with cooling fans?

Yes but you would think it was not as much when you use the lower watt chargers.

I have done a lot of generative Ai with Siri-ChatGPT Genmoji, Google Gemini and Grok Ai

with 2 Pro M4 iPads 11" & 13" and a Macbook Air and iPhone SE2

there was some heat from Grok using Imagine while charging ( Only with my iPhone as far as I remember )

but nowhere near as hot as the iPad did with Copilot.

The 1st thing I noticed was it was it was performing slowly at times and some things didn't open or took ages to close down and then I noticed it was not charging past 36%,

then after leaving it for a few minutes I felt the side and that was unusually warm,

then I felt heat through the back of the magic case I started to panic an try to close it down in settings which took much longer then normal to open and select, I removed the charger and fully removed the iPad from the magic case trying to only took the sides and put it on some heat resistant material while I turned on a decent room fan,

I then went to pick it up to hold it in front of the fan and I then I felt the bare metal of the back of the iPad and it was like touching a metal kettle too soon after its been boiled, it was too hot to keep in your hands so I waited a few minutes and picked it up by just the sides and held it up in front of the fan to cool it down, it took a few minutes to become safe enough to constant contact handle the back.(I kept checking until it with a tap from my finger until it was cool enough )

I don't think this is Apples fault, and the other Ai products I have tried have never caused this level of warming

thats my observation, I have enjoyed using all of these products but other then removing background items

its still better to alter photos with the iPads image editor that comes with iPad OS so I won't be bothering

to do that with AI now I know how superior manual editing on the iPad is so much better.

I will still use Gemini and Grok for other things and if I do try to use Copilot again on a Mac it will

be on my M4 Mac Mini, and I am not trashing Copilot either, each product has its strengths and weakness

and the majority of the Ai stuff I still have interest in is best suited to Grok and Gemini.

I honestly thought most of the Ai stuff was having the Ai servers handle all the hard work

I didn't realise there can be a good bit of CPU and GPU power needed on our machines to.

Sorry to go on so much I just thought this needed to be brought to peoples attention even if it never ends

up affecting all users.

Martin as an example if I used the 3 models to remove a complex background like a number of boats from a harbour for example the quickest was Grok in about 20 seconds then Gemini did it in about 30 seconds

but Copilot took over 5 minutes , Gemini is better overall at Generative Ai images and Video, then in terms of quality of Image Copilot tended to do a lot better quality the then Grok in many cases but not all , but always took longer on each task, and Grok is better at certain details like fixing noses errors like those generated by Genmoji where as the other two companies models could fix oversized ear errors but repeatedly regenerated a bulbous oversize nose and was unable to learn from its mistake(No amount of prompts could teach it to fix the mistake) but Grok did it 1st time and matched the nose shape from the original photograph.

I best point out I have paid Subscriptions for SuperGrok and Gemini Pro and I do have a MS365 subscription but not a AI subscription but when not logged into those accounts and using another non-paid Google account and free X account without SuperGrok, those two free accounts tended to performed faster then the MS offerings from Bing,Edge and Copilot and similar strengths and weakness on the Generative side as the paid accounts.