Oh snap, I have a new favorite phone grip

Dec 19, 2025 05:29 AM - 5 months ago 165178

In 2022, we called a elemental magnetic ringing from Anker the champion MagSafe telephone grip, but things person evolved dramatically since then! You tin bargain 2 aliases moreover 3 magnetic rings joined astatine the hip these days to wield your iPhone, recent Pixel, aliases really immoderate telephone if you instrumentality a magnetic lawsuit aliases included mounting ringing connected the back.

But the champion I’ve yet tried are the double-sided $15-$25 Syncwire Magnetic Phone Ring Holder — and, much recently, the $40 OhSnap Snap Grip 5.

Unlike the Anker we swore by for years, some are double-sided magnet rings. I don’t person to return them disconnected erstwhile I plop them connected a MagSafe telephone charger aliases car mount. And pinch them on, I tin instrumentality my telephone straight to a fridge, filing cabinet, aliases definite pieces of gym instrumentality since the magnets activity some ways.

But the existent trick, the point that sets them isolated from the pack, is getting the correct magnet strength. The OhSnap 5 now uses magnets truthful beardown that it nary longer needs immoderate pesky adhesive to clasp onto my telephone — while the reverse broadside is conscionable beardown capable to instrumentality to my magnetic car equine while besides detaching easily.

My wife’s puffier type of the Syncwire besides detaches easily, arsenic I discussed successful my September video below, but the modular type doesn’t. I often person to tally backmost retired to the car aft accidentally leaving my Syncwire stuck to the charger.

As you’ll spot successful my videos embedded successful this story, the Syncwire’s a beautiful accepted ringing prevention for its awesome ratcheting mechanism, which leaves less scrapes connected my telephone than the Anker and doubles arsenic an excellent fidget toy.

The OhSnap useful differently: alternatively of putting a digit done a ring, you spot them successful aliases astir a group of interlocking elastic arms attached to a disc that retracts from the back. It looks downright weird but it’s impressively versatile: you tin clasp it betwixt immoderate 2 fingers for illustration a PopSocket, aliases instrumentality immoderate of your fingers into the small cage betwixt the arms. You tin moreover slot the disc into a small notch to move it into a basal telephone stand.

You tin spot each those successful my October 2024 video astir the earlier Snap Grip 4 version:

$40 is simply a precocious value to salary for a telephone grip, peculiarly 1 that’s had immoderate benignant of weakness successful each revision truthful far. (My workfellow Victoria Song collapsed her Snap Grip 3’s small fingers, the Snap Grip 4 had acold stronger fingers but it besides had the annoying adhesive, and now the caller soft-touch coating is peeling disconnected my Snap Grip 5 aft a period aliases truthful of use, though it’s easy capable to scrape away.)

But the Snap Grip 5 is meaningfully thinner and lighter than the Syncwire, and I nary longer accidentally time off it successful the car. As a cheapskate and fidget artifact lover, I mightiness instrumentality pinch my ratcheting Syncwire… but I’m decidedly reasoning I mightiness gift a Snap Grip aliases 2 this Christmas!

Oh, and earlier you ask, my telephone lawsuit is the Spigen Ultra Hybrid ZeroOne Edition. A batch of group ask!

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