Will iPhone 12 stick to magnetic car mounts?

The iPhone 12 sticks to my car magnet mount without a problem if I do not have a case on the phone. I have tried two cases - one very thin and the other ordered from Apple, and both cases prevent the phone from sticking to the car mount. Since I hesitate to add an additional magnet to the case, I am hoping Apple comes out with a case that does not interfere with the magnet in the phone.

No, not for a magnetic mount currently in your car. I tried, and the phone falls off pretty quickly. I am hoping the Apple-designed cases will work when they are released, but for the moment you cannot magnetically mount.

thanks bud. dually noted...

anyhow the information of what i posted is exactly correct... i went out and bought one 2 hrs after posting... the PLATE is the magnet and the phone has a ring of ferrous metal. the phone sticks to any car magnet but BARELY because its just the small ring. However... you can put the magsafe plate onto the phone and then stick that to your car magnet... as long as your car magnet has rubber on it it works great.

No the bare phone will not stay put on a magnet mount. I’ve found I have to use VHB tape to stick a metal plate to the lower part as the adhesive on any metal plates do not stick good enough. Putting a plate right on the Apple logo will interfere with the MagSafe charger. Have to wait for a Belkin’s car mount. Unfortunately

Just got the blue one and it stick perfectly , not too strong but it did not fall, the mount i got it from autozone , it have a long neck with square end that have have 4 circles of magnets , but still i don’t know if it is safe for the phone to be attached with the magnet for 12 hours daily or not!

I bought this, highly rated one, thinking it will work but unfortunately it did not hold my iPhone 12 Max, not at all, the phone would slip till it detach, right away.

of course, this is without using the included metal plates.

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It may not (probably not, actually) work with existing magnetic mounts. That remains to be seen.

However, manufacturers are currently working on mag-safe car mounts that should be available soon.

No it will not. I have the SCOSCHE mount that I attached metal plates to the back of my previous iphone. The magnets in the Iphone 12 pro max are not strong enough to work with this dash mount, it starts sliding down.

No. My iPhone 12 (with or without the MagSafe case) doesn’t stick on my current magnetic mounts in the car. Pretty disappointed.

I have tested by iPhone 12 Pro and The phone will stay magnetically attached to the mag safe car charger without a case or with a mag safe case.

iPhone 12 will not stick to the magnetic mount on its own i.e without the little back plate

Welcome, Kelspeth, to Apple Support Communities.

For an appropriately designed magnetic mount, the answer is Yes, «the iPhone 12 [will] be able to stick to a car magnet mount».

As to whether the «car magnet mount» you may currently have will work, there is simply no way to answer, at this time,

FYI, my iPhone 12 Pro with MagSafe case will not stay attached to a regular magnetic mount.

I purchased the 12 pro Max and the silicone case from Apple and I can confirm that the current magic mount magnets, or any others for that matter, will not stick to the silicone case and/or phone itself using the adhesive backing that they currently come with. However, if you have a case, a drop of gorilla glue where the adhesive currently is did the trick just fine.

I would assume this question shouldnt be that hard to answer for Apple support. I assume Iphone 12's attract to the magsafe plate 1 of 2 ways.... Either the charging PLATE is a magnet, and the PHONE has ferrous metal in it required for attraction , or, the PHONE has a magnet in it and the PLATE is some type of ferrous metal. I highly doubt the actual phone has the magnet built into it for a number of reasons. (one reason being it would always be picking up little bits of ferrous metal debris that it happened to come across. Therefor the plate is most likely the magnet and the phone has the metal in it. If so, then ANY magnet would attract to the back of the phone. Can anyone confirm this?

If the above is correct, then it will probably come down to the shape and orientation of the metal in the phone. If it is only a ring of metal that aligns perfectly with the outside diameter of the PLATE, (leaving most of the area in the middle for the wireless charging electronics.... then the phone will probably not work with any shape of generic magnet. Or at least it wont be strong enough to support the phone because there will only be small portions of metal ring to plate connecting to eachother. IF the magnet diameter was larger enough to cover the entire ring of metal in the phone then theres no reason why that would not work.