Will the iPhone 12 be able to stick to a car magnet mount? For example currently I stick the mount to the dashboard using 3M tape. I adhere the metal mounting plate inside my iPhone 8 case and the magnet mount holds my phone.
However, the metal plate will interfere with wireless charging so as that has to be removed, will the iPhone 12 stick without that metal plate?
Not sure it's even a question that can be answered yet!
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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.
I too hesitate to add an additional magnet. It’s still too early I reckon. Hopefully they will release a MagSafe mount / charger combo soon. The one I see that is made by Belkin is just a mount.
The MagSafe charging puck I will say has a strong magnetic connection. I can lift the phone up by the cable of the charger and leave the phone dangling and it still holds! Hoping the same strength in magnetic connection will come to a car mount / charger combo soon.
I searched online and found this one.
I'm slightly worried it may damage my phone 😞 Hopefully there will be an Apple approved one soon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08X6J6SYX/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_api_glt_fabc_DQ2B7KY2
Judas_Dryden wrote:
I would assume this question shouldnt be that hard to answer for Apple support.
And it probably wouldn't be... if you had asked Apple support.
This is a user forum. Apple is not here.
I’m using this phone mount and it stays put but I’m finding it doesn’t charge good enough. I use a GPS app and have to plug in my alternate lightning cable before it goes dead. Around town it’s great but better have a pretty good battery level.
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I did originally ask Apple support but they didn’t have an answer so I posted here.
. . . . .host delete this please. . . . (why can't you delete your own posts?)
As expected, jharg12.
Is the new mag charger strong enough that it you mounted that in the car it would hold the phone?
“Speculation and theoretical.
Entertaining, but no use to the OP.”
You say this then post something that also fits that same description. Congrats.
I think not. I only posted once in this thread.
it just depends on where and how one spends your day my friend... i work in the construction industry and probably get more dirty in a day than the average office job worker... any magnet ive ever had on any personal device would end up in need of regular cleaning of metallic debris. Apple just put out specific "debris" cleaning instructions for the magsafe puck for this exact reason and after a week of magsafe use i already have a ring of debris around the edge of the puck.
anyhow, more importantly, and back to the OP... my wireless charging is already broken and im fairly sure its due to using a car magnet.
i have 3 magsafe charging pucks and none of them work anymore. (telling me its the phone and not the puck itself) i had been using the puck in between my phone and my car magnet and for a few days it worked great. i then noticed that if i was to put the phone onto the puck that was already stuck to my car magnet, sometimes it would NOT start charging... this then became the norm and in order to get it to charge i would have to remove both items from the car magnet, disconnect and reconnect the magsafe puck from the phone a couple times to get the charging to start. this worked for a day or so but then it seemed to stop charging after a few minutes of having the two items stuck back to the car magnet. now, none of the pucks charge the phone, regardless of the phone sitting on a desk or a car magnetic holder. Im seeing quite a bit of "magsafe" news from apple lately... whether its guidelines or warnings. looks like the magsafe is turning out to be buggy as ****. damnit
i guess i cant be %100 sure the culprit is the car magnet however, it makes allot of sense that introducing another strong magnet right into the same area that a magnetic inductive system is trying to do its thing would cause a problem.
Speculation and theoretical.
Entertaining, but no use to the OP.
My ipads and macbooks have strategically placed neodymium magnets all over the place and never picked up any debris
Mine doesn't stick well at all with magsafe silicone case, super disappointed. Wondering if I attach a magnet inside this magsafe case if that will mess up the charging apparatus.
I have this magnetic mount and my iPhone 12 sticks to it. Sure not sure how health it is for my phone as it’s sticking to the magnet where the mag-safe charger is.
I can tell you they do not hold the phone for very long. the MagSafe in the phone is just not strong enough. They are fine as long as you are not driving but as soon as you get moving they fall.
Will iPhone 12 stick to magnetic car mounts?
