22 Best MagSafe Accessories (2024), Tested and Reviewed

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Magnets are one of those things that ever stay wondrous. As a kid, I utilized to pursuit a breached magnet with its repelling extremity and unreal it was a bull car chasing a robber. Now, it’s conscionable arsenic satisfying to connect magnetic accessories to the back of an iPhone. It conscionable clicks into place! No wires, screws, oregon clamps to woody with. It’s wonderful. These magnetic goods travel successful galore flavors, from tripods and camera cages to retention drives and wallets. I've tested dozens—with the assistance of WIRED's Gear team. These are the champion MagSafe accessories worthy slapping connected your iPhone.

Read our different MagSafe guides, including the Best MagSafe Power Banks, Best MagSafe Wallets, Best MagSafe Wireless Chargers, Best 3-in-1 Apple Chargers, and Best iPhone 16 Cases.

Updated November 2024: We’ve overhauled this usher with wholly caller picks throughout.

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MagSafe is the sanction of Apple’s accessory strategy integrated into the iPhone 12, iPhone 13, iPhone 14, iPhone 15, and iPhone 16 range. A ringing of magnets connected the backmost of the telephone (and successful MagSafe cases) tin assistance transportation powerfulness much precisely and faster than accepted wireless chargers. However, it's besides a useful mode to clasp an accessory successful place, similar a wallet, oregon to equine the iPhone without requiring clamps.

Make Sure Your Case Has MagSafe Too

If you usage a lawsuit with your iPhone, marque definite it's a MagSafe lawsuit (it should person its ain ringing of magnets inside). A modular lawsuit volition conscionable weaken the magnetic attachment betwixt the iPhone and the MagSafe accessory. A MagSafe lawsuit volition support the magnetic strength, and sometimes case-makers usage stronger magnets for a much unafraid attachment. We person tons of recommendations successful our iPhone lawsuit guides:

Is MagSafe Compatible With Android?

Natively, no. MagSafe won't enactment with astir Android phones. However, determination are MagSafe cases for definite Android phones, similar the Google Pixel series oregon Samsung Galaxy phones, and these cases person a akin (if not the same) magnetic ringing inside, allowing you to usage galore of the aforesaid MagSafe powerfulness banks, wireless chargers, and different accessories, though your mileage whitethorn vary. Several accessory companies besides see oregon merchantability the MagSafe magnetic constituent that you tin instrumentality to the backmost of your smartphone to alteration compatibility, though I've ne'er utilized 1 I truly like.

The Qi2 wireless charging standard is poised to alteration each of this. The latest modular has yet to get successful large Android phones, but you volition apt commencement seeing it much prominently successful 2025. (The archetypal Android telephone with Qi2 is the HMD Skyline.) Qi2 adds the Magnetic Power Profile, which is based connected MagSafe. That means Qi2 phones volition diagnostic a akin magnetic attachment system, enabling MagSafe accessories to enactment with much devices, nary lawsuit needed.

That's wherefore you whitethorn besides commencement seeing “Qi2” MagSafe devices—the latest iPhones each enactment Qi2, and immoderate instrumentality you bargain with Qi2 volition connection maximum compatibility.

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