iPhone 12 Pro MagSafe on iPhone 12 pro demagnetized my parking ticket

[Böhme417]

yeah who could have seen this being an issue? I posted this in accessories thread that the MagSafe and wallet was a horrible idea. credit cards are now being rendered useless. I called Apple and they said to use Apple Pay instead. I mean for real?

Useless? Where are you still swiping a credit card? The only place I can think of might be a fuel station, but almost all the ones I see now are taking contactless. I don't know the last time I actually swiped a credit card, so the mag stripe is useless to me.

 

[Closingracer]

Loool okay nah, that's a new problem. I've never had parking tickets demagnetized by my phone.

Parking tickets nah but I’ve had plenty of hotel keys stop working m. Happened like 6 times at a Hilton I went to. Those use RIFD tags so it’s different then a mag stripe which could but the magnets aren’t that strong in the iPhone 12.

 

[SisterBlue22]

It’s anecdotal but I’ve stayed in hundreds of hotels over the last 7+ years and I’d estimate that I’ve been told this in about half of them. It’s easy to find discussions about it online too.

I've been in the hotel industry 30+ years (since before magnetic key cards were even a thing in most areas - we used physical brass keys in the first couple of hotels I worked in), and pretty much as long as cell phones have been a common thing, we've been telling people not to put their hotel key cards against them because of the risk of demagnetization. Sometimes even if you put a key card stripe to stripe against a credit card, one will screw up the other. I thought this was just common knowledge - it's been a thing for many many years, long before magsafe.

 

[SisterBlue22]

Parking tickets nah but I’ve had plenty of hotel keys stop working m. Happened like 6 times at a Hilton I went to. Those use RIFD tags so it’s different then a mag stripe which could but the magnets aren’t that strong in the iPhone 12.

The RFID thing in hotel locks is still somewhat new technology...most hotels still use keys with magnetic strips that you have to swipe in and out of the slot on the lock.

 

[DeftwillP]

I have to remember to not put hotel RFID cards in my pocket with the airpod case. Kills it every time.

 

[macsound1]

Useless? Where are you still swiping a credit card? The only place I can think of might be a fuel station, but almost all the ones I see now are taking contactless. I don't know the last time I actually swiped a credit card, so the mag stripe is useless to me.

In the US, contactless card readers are not the norm.
Most use the chip, but some are still magnetic swipe.

Based on my observations, places like hotels, car rentals, and mechanics, swipe is the only method. Chain retailers for clothes and groceries might take all 3. Gas stations aren't corporate owned so each station has a different generation of equipment.