The only point stopping me from ordering an iPhone 12 Mini is the magnets (yes, they are -supposedly- not strong enough for erasing a credit card, but they are strong enough for erasing hotel keys --so, sorry but no, I don't want to have magnets that strong in my pocket).
The iFixit teardown clearly shows that actual physical removal of the magnets is very difficult: they are at the bottom of the cake, with lots of delicate items and connectors before you can reach them, so actual physical removal would be only suitable when you start hating the whole phone rather than just the magnets.
Now, a "MacGyver idea" came to my mind: what if I could use a rigid leather sleeve (not case, sleeve) loose enough so that I can take my iPhone out of my pocket with only one hand, leaving the sleeve inside my pocket --and vice versa, putting the phone back in my pocket making it slide inside the sleeve with only one hand. Then, I could put some extra isolation in the back side of the sleeve if needed for neutralizing the magnets more effectively.
Ideally, the sleeve shouldn't be full size, but just up the height where the circle of magnets ends, so that it's easier to take the phone with only one hand.
Do you know of any sleeve that could do this trick?
Do you think of any other mechanisms for neutralizing the magnets?
(Yes, I could wait for iPhone 13, but I don't feel confident they will remove the magnets..., and besides, I have serious battery life issues in my SE1) Side note: my SE1 is starting to have serious problems in battery life (I think it's not a hardware problem, or at least not severe because iOS says the battery health is 81%, so my belief is that the serious reduction I'm seeing in battery comes from high CPU usage in the SE1 compared to more efficient newer A13/A14 chips --in fact my SE1 gets warm when using some apps, and then battery goes down, so I think it's related to its CPU being too old for current apps).
The iFixit teardown clearly shows that actual physical removal of the magnets is very difficult: they are at the bottom of the cake, with lots of delicate items and connectors before you can reach them, so actual physical removal would be only suitable when you start hating the whole phone rather than just the magnets.
Now, a "MacGyver idea" came to my mind: what if I could use a rigid leather sleeve (not case, sleeve) loose enough so that I can take my iPhone out of my pocket with only one hand, leaving the sleeve inside my pocket --and vice versa, putting the phone back in my pocket making it slide inside the sleeve with only one hand. Then, I could put some extra isolation in the back side of the sleeve if needed for neutralizing the magnets more effectively.
Ideally, the sleeve shouldn't be full size, but just up the height where the circle of magnets ends, so that it's easier to take the phone with only one hand.
Do you know of any sleeve that could do this trick?
Do you think of any other mechanisms for neutralizing the magnets?
(Yes, I could wait for iPhone 13, but I don't feel confident they will remove the magnets..., and besides, I have serious battery life issues in my SE1) Side note: my SE1 is starting to have serious problems in battery life (I think it's not a hardware problem, or at least not severe because iOS says the battery health is 81%, so my belief is that the serious reduction I'm seeing in battery comes from high CPU usage in the SE1 compared to more efficient newer A13/A14 chips --in fact my SE1 gets warm when using some apps, and then battery goes down, so I think it's related to its CPU being too old for current apps).
