Yes, they will definitely add Magsafe so that they hold well in the stores, lol.
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Apple Provides Reason for iPhone 16e's Lack of MagSafe
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Oh come on! Do Apple and Tim think we are that stupid?
They literally took an iPhone 16 into a meeting room and started shaving every $ they could to make the gimped 16e.
Lets remove magsafe, yep, pro motion tick, telephoto, macro..and the list keeps going. Oh, lets tell everyone what great battery it has,..we just won't say that its because we've removed every worthwhile feature to satisfy shareholders.
They literally took an iPhone 16 into a meeting room and started shaving every $ they could to make the gimped 16e.
Lets remove magsafe, yep, pro motion tick, telephoto, macro..and the list keeps going. Oh, lets tell everyone what great battery it has,..we just won't say that its because we've removed every worthwhile feature to satisfy shareholders.
I use magsafe for the magnetic battery attachments (I have the Anker one); which is handy. When I'm hiking or something and want to make sure my battery is topped off.
But yeah; most of the time I just charge my phone at night when I go to bed. And it, frankly, doesn't matter how long it takes to charge at that point.
But yeah; most of the time I just charge my phone at night when I go to bed. And it, frankly, doesn't matter how long it takes to charge at that point.
This isn't even a poor man's phone at $AU1000!
Which problem MagSafe solves that doesn’t solve a charging cable?
Well, this is very easy, and there’s no reason to get mad because of this: the people that find iPhone 16e useful, well priced and don’t care about MagSafe, will buy the 16e, in the other hand, people who care a lot about the MagSafe will not buy it. As simple as that, and I don’t see the reason to further argue.
Exactly why it's unacceptable for the feature to be omitted.
How else do you want to make a budget phone without cuts? Reading this thread seems like people for the first time ever noticed how the market and product segmentation works.
I agree but as I mentioned earlier on, why the OLED screen, why satellite calling? It doesn't even make sense as a budget phone.
Apple: F**k all you poor peasants who only can afford to charge with a third party USB-C cable.
It'll be a feature, just like it took them two decades to start offering a matte screen as an option again after saying how crap glossy screens were until they moved to them. Its a fun cycle.
The plug eventually wears out if you keep a phone for multiple years.
So we’re not allowed to be annoyed generally that Apple is leaving features off what is priced as a premium phone.
Many of us who help friends and family purchase ‘budget’ Apple devices find it ridiculous that such an expensive phone is missing a feature which has been around for 5 years and should be standard across the range by now.
Don’t see a reason for magsafe. Plugging phone into car while driving gives me all the charging I ever need.
Really?? How other way a company can get to a not so expensive product if not is by shaving features to its more expensive products?
Nearly everyone puts their phones in a case anyway. And the phone's magnets then become useless and need to be replaced with magnets in the case. Spigen already has cases for the 16e with magnets. I don't see it as a big deal. The bigger deal is the slower charging speed, but I tend to really just use MagSafe at night when I have time anyway. I use wired connection in my car because MagSafe just gets too hot trying to charge and use GPS simultaneously.
Exactly this. This is typical Apple circular reasoning to justify something they just wanted to do.
Of course people coming from an SE didn't use MagSafe. They didn't have it. Still makes it reasonable for a $600 phone in 2025 to have it.
And what's their logic going to be when they do add it next year? Either they do that, or they double down on this model never having it. Which also doesn't make sense. It's just hurting their own ecosystem. MagSafe is still one of the main (increasingly very few) notable advantages that Android users envy.
The new Samsung phone came out with something almost exactly like this, and even in Android-land they criticized it.
I now keep my phone across 4 generations of phone releases. Never had its connection ever wear out.
I can believe it, although I have mixed feelings. I don't wirelessly charge my 16 Pro but I do use MagSafe accessories like a pop socket. (If I had a battery pack it would likely be a MagSafe one but for now the 16 Pro gives me more than enough battery life.) And while MagSafe cases do exist I feel the charging speed is a bit slow.
Have you bought any SE or not for yourself or your family? If you need Magsafe so much, buy a older phone, 14 or 15, simple.
MagSafe is definitely nice, but I have never once considered it a deal breaker for me personally. I know for a fact as well, both of my parents and grandparents don’t even know they have MagSafe (let alone what it is) on their phones and the 16e is likely the phone I would recommend to them. They simply charge it by plugging it in.
I don’t see all the hate here. The target demographic simply doesn’t use MagSafe and I’d be willing to be Apple was right. People who think MagSafe is a dealbreaker is probably not the target market for the 16e. Good news is you have 4 other phones to choose from.
I don’t see all the hate here. The target demographic simply doesn’t use MagSafe and I’d be willing to be Apple was right. People who think MagSafe is a dealbreaker is probably not the target market for the 16e. Good news is you have 4 other phones to choose from.
A decade, perhaps. Wife had her previous Pixel for 7 years, and the port never wore out.
Either way, the 16e still has wireless Qi charging.
Its definitely a nice-to-have, but the way some people go on about it you'd think that they had been using a Palm Pre for 12 years until the iPhone 12 came out just because of the magnets.
But even if you aren't charging it, MagSafe makes a convenient car mount.
The Galaxy S25 has the exact same scenario. It supports wireless charging, but you have to get a case with magnets.
It doesn't make the phone's magnets useless by the way. The two magnets stacked make the connection stronger than just a magnet in the case.
This is typical Apple. Yes, it is theoretically reasonable that it not have MagSafe, but it's a strange omission. But obviously they can technically get away with it, so they did. Kind of strange for a luxury brand to so often go for the bare minimum in some noticeable areas, but here we are.
Yes, it's their lowest end phone. But that low end keeps getting higher. Just seems like this was a strange place to draw the line and draws attention to the fact that maybe they drew it a little too low for the price.
My daughters have iPhone 16s with MagSafe but keep their license or cash or something in the case and never use the feature. I ask if they have tried it but they dont care. It's just as easy for them to plug in a cable. I use the feature daily but I have to say, there are some that dont.