{"id":237432,"date":"2026-04-30T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/drop-magsafe-from-the-iphone-no-apples-smarter-than-that\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:00:09","slug":"drop-magsafe-from-the-iphone-no-apples-smarter-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/drop-magsafe-from-the-iphone-no-apples-smarter-than-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop MagSafe from the iPhone? No, Apple&#8217;s smarter than that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3128715\/drop-magsafe-from-the-iphone-no-apples-smarter-than-that.html\">Drop MagSafe from the iPhone? No, Apple&#8217;s smarter than that<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3128715\/drop-magsafe-from-the-iphone-no-apples-smarter-than-that.html\">https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3128715\/drop-magsafe-from-the-iphone-no-apples-smarter-than-that.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-30 09:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.macworld.com\">www.macworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Summary created by Smart Answers AI<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"miso-summary-title\" id=\"in-summary\">In summary:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Macworld analyzes rumors that Apple may remove MagSafe from future iPhones due to design constraints affecting phone thickness and weight.<\/li>\n<li>MagSafe\u2019s transformative wireless charging convenience and Apple\u2019s significant accessory revenue make removal from standard models highly unlikely.<\/li>\n<li>While budget models like iPhone 16e previously lacked MagSafe, the feature returned in iPhone 17e, demonstrating its importance to users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apple has made some dubious design decisions over the past 15 years, from FineWoven to the AirPods Max Smart Case. We hope that trend is about to change, under the company\u2019s new perfectionist CEO, but even the current management is too smart to drop MagSafe from the iPhone line, as claimed by a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The Weibo leaker Instant Digital, who posts a lot but doesn\u2019t have an especially strong track record of accurate predictions, claimed earlier this week that Apple has been debating whether to maintain MagSafe as a standard feature on the iPhone. \u201cWhen MagSafe was first introduced, the internal stance was very aggressive,\u201d the leaker adds. \u201cThere were even plans to include it as a standard feature on iPads, which I mentioned before, but ultimately didn\u2019t happen. Now they\u2019re starting to waver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rationale behind this debate, Instant Digital claims, is the \u201csacrifice\u201d involved in building MagSafe into each device. And it\u2019s undoubtedly the case that MagSafe imposes a burden on phone designers: it requires the inclusion of a ring of magnets as well as the necessary inductive charging coils. Apple could make its iPhone thinner and lighter if it were able to drop MagSafe, and early prototypes suggest that the foldable iPhone Ultra may not get the feature. It\u2019s notable, however, that the super-thin iPhone Air did get MagSafe, so it\u2019s not like this is an insurmountable problem.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone 17e gained MagSafe this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCredit\">David Price \/ Foundry<\/p>\n<p>If&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3128715\/drop-magsafe-from-the-iphone-no-apples-smarter-than-that.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drop MagSafe from the iPhone? 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