Amazon is full of the BYOP (bring your own puck) car mounts, and we’ve also seen it with Apple Watch charger accessories. Just providing the plastic to put around Apple’s charger is a common approach. If you’re fine with just using an official MagSafe puck, you will be spoiled for choice.
While it does technically get you MagSafe-certified mounting and charging, that’s only because you’re using Apple’s own puck. You have to provide your own MagSafe puck, which adds $39 to the MagicMount’s $29.99 to $39.99 price tag (which varies by model). Then there’s the Scosche MagicMount, which provides a 20W car adapter but nothing to plug into it.
This does technically let you charge your phone faster than regular wireless charging, but it leaves you messing around with a cable. You’ll have to plug your phone in with a Lightning cable (which you’d have to do anyway for wired CarPlay compatibility). Being certified doesn’t mean it provides power, though. However, manufactures have been finding workarounds.įirst, there’s Belkin’s Car Vent Mount Pro, which is the only MagSafe Certified car mount, and it sells for $39.99. Getting a MagSafe car charger for your iPhone seems like a simple process, but the current landscape is one of trade-offs: there are no all-in-one solutions that will wirelessly hold and charge your phone and are MagSafe certified to provide up to 15W of power.
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