{"id":859427,"date":"2026-08-15T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859427\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T20:58:11","slug":"i-finally-found-a-magnetic-phone-grip-i-never-want-to-remove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/859427\/","title":{"rendered":"I finally found a magnetic phone grip I never want to remove"},"content":{"rendered":"

I told myself I wouldn\u2019t buy an OhSnap accessory for my phone. Every one I\u2019d tested was nice, but felt overpriced and slightly flawed. After I weighed in on the $40 Snap Grip 5<\/a> last year, I wound up sticking with my $25 Syncwire<\/a> instead. But OhSnap\u2019s $50 Snap Grip Stand<\/a> finally got me. To have a truly useful vertical stand and grip always attached to my phone, ready at a moment\u2019s notice? Heck yes.<\/p>\n

I started testing the Snap Grip Stand months ago, and soon discovered that I never took it off. So I bought my own.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s thin \u2014 3.7mm, so it slips effortlessly into my pocket without making an extra indent in my pants. It\u2019s got a double-sided magnetic ring, like the previous gen, so it not only sticks to your magnet ring phone, it can stick flat against a fridge or gym equipment or my garage cabinets. It even lets some wireless charging through.<\/p>\n

Like the previous gen, the magnets hold my phone tightly, and the grip part is one of the most versatile I\u2019ve tried. The clever interlocking joints can fit between two of your fingers loosely like a PopSocket, or you can put a finger through the joints for a very secure grip.<\/p>\n

The whole disc spins freely (though still with a bit of scraping noise) to rotate to any angle you like.<\/p>\n

But unlike the previous gen, the Stand has a stand unlike most other magnet grips on the market. The entire magnet ring is now encircled by a thinner fold-out ring on a hinged arm. Pull it down, and it effortlessly props up my phone in its normal vertical orientation. Most rival stands barely prop a phone, and even then they don\u2019t deploy as fast. Here, there\u2019s no need to take off the stand, or rotate it and lock a tab in place like OhSnap\u2019s previous grips \u2014 pull out, plop phone on surface, done.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the only stand with such a design. The $17 Gornergrat Grat 5<\/a> has a similar stand and costs far less. But I tried one and found I don\u2019t like its elastic strap, which feels loose and thus less secure around my fingers.<\/p>\n

OhSnap makes use of the extra vertical arm space to keep the stand from rotating when you don\u2019t want it to: it\u2019s got a extra vertical magnet in there to match Apple\u2019s MagSafe pattern, as well as some grippy clear plastic material to provide friction.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m happy to say the aluminum gadget doesn\u2019t seem to have any other unwanted coatings: I wasn\u2019t a fan of the adhesive on the Snap Grip 4, or the soft-touch coating that started to peel when I tested the Snap Grip 5. Here, it appears to be bare anodized metal that looks and feels great.<\/p>\n

Right now, I can only think of three things that\u2019d make it better: a lower price, magnets in the stand\u2019s ring (rather than the main ring) so I can use the magnets and the stand at the same time, and maybe a better way to open the grip one-handed.<\/p>\n

I do like how Tango\u2019s spring-loaded grip<\/a> can pop open when you press it. But I tried a Tango too, and I don\u2019t like the way that spring feels between my fingers, pushing them apart too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I told myself I wouldn\u2019t buy an OhSnap accessory for my phone. Every one I\u2019d tested was nice,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,195,1800,190,209,64,61],"class_list":["post-859427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gadgets","tag-hands-on","tag-mobile","tag-reviews","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}