What REALLY Happens If You Put a Magnet on a Mobile Phone?

In this video we investigate what REALLY happens when you put a powerful neodymium magnet on a smartphone!
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[@reddragon3163]

This was more informative than smashing it against a magnetic brick

[@mj_sma]

TechRax huh?

[@ThunderKat]

​@@mj_sma Is related to another video where this other KZbinr just smash the phone against a very powerful magnet like if he had no clue what electrons and magnets are all about...

[@ghasic2982]

He had an iphone 6s right?

[@GeorgeWilkinson-jf6ks]

Oh shit am I the only person that just dropped my phone in an expanding orange ball of doo doo

[@DarkWestern]

Yay it's safe! I'm gonna load my phone case up with so many small rare earth magnets!

[@suffering_is_needed_for_peace]

I did it on the Samsung A20 phone and the phone switched off and i can keep doing it again and again

[@GamingFanatics4466]

you can use a magnet as a power button if your power button doesnt work

[@marco.l69]

Lol searched this up cause i dropped my phone down a cliff like hill and I want to try getting it back with a magnet on a stick... wish me luck

[@JoeRoganExperienceClips]

How did you comment this

[@funniflow]

@@JoeRoganExperienceClips Computers exist.

[@keithupton86ku]

@@funniflow 🤣

[@jaredhared]

Did you ever get it back?

[@someoneunknown3765]

i need updates on ur phone

[@user-xy5zf7dj1g]

it can definitely mess up the speakers, the compass, and even possibly mess up the battery as you can induce a charge if you move at all. Other than that, should be ok.

[@mikek7660]

Very informative. Thanks for that

[@helengushue8575]

I'm sitting here very puzzled. I bought two identical phones and got wallet cases for both. Gradually, both phones started to make a constant bleeping sound similar to the start up sound. No, I didn't put any credit cards or ANYTHING in the wallet slots. Also, I turned off notifications on both phones and still this annoying sound persisted. After two months thereabouts of this I had a lightbulb moment and just removed the wallet cases from the phones. Yuppers, the sound has stopped. Both of these wallets have a magnet to clasp shut. I can't think of anything else to be causing my phone to do this bleeping other than the magnets. The phones are Revvl 4+. This might not occur with other types of phones and I'm pretty sure this wasn't damaging the phones, but I'm curious here if there's anything I can do about it so I can use the wallets for these phones (different wallet cases). The common denominator for the problem is the magnetic clasp on each wallet and something sensitive inside this particular android cell phone. Your demonstration of running a strong magnet is good, but your demonstration doesn't delve into longer term magnetic exposure as I have encountered. This has taken me quite some time to sort out to land on the magnets being the cause because everything online talks about how magnets don't DAMAGE a phone, but nothing about how a phone can react to magnetic exposure over a period of time. If you know of a fix, please let me know. I'm still scratching my head in disbelief that the wallet magnets are making my phone go off Cuckoo with annoying constant sound bleeping. If there's a setting on the phone that would fix this I sure would appreciate knowing what it is so I can use the wallets I've purchased.

[@DalimilCerny]

There is no fix once the hardware is damaged. Experienced the same issue at work as a tech support.

[@genericwatcher2439]

All I know is that I LOVED my magnetic phone mount in my car for my phone, but after a few months, the screen on my new phone went dark. Coincidence? Not sure...

[@Hehhehemegaprog]

Well might be 2 reasons

[@ahmadsantoso9712]

I've wanted a Sony smartphone for a long time.

[@chrismoran9262]

So we put a magnet on the front of our iPhone and it’s stuck! Please explain

[@JB-cu4hx]

A magnet shut off your video on a flip 4 when a magnet was applied to the back of the top half of the phone.

[@angsa8412]

I was using a headset that had a magnet on it and I didn't realize I put it in the bag where there was my cell phone. I realized it when there was a call and when I took my cell phone there was a headset attached to my cell phone too. and I'm here to find out. I hope this is fine and won't make me change my phone again 😅 What I'm wondering is why something as small as a headset like this has a magnet this strong.

[@purge_xd278]

U can see My Asus phone when I put magnet through the Charging place it is magically screen is not like the same

[@thingdust2900]

How is it magic screen

[@ElijahGilio]

Ok this is good news.

[@happy90s77]

Anyone no why my analog watch stops ticking when i place it on my phone? Its really annoying.

[@hughiemulholland115]

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[@JSR1770]

I tested my iphone near magnetic things like speakers and metal stuff because i found this app and wanted to see what happened Is the any harm done?

[@OnEst_Opinion]

Yeah, a little 25lbs toy magnet won’t do anything. If a 450lbs magnet fishing magnet was used however then disguise’s results would’ve been drastically different. You know how they say do not bring anything metal into an MRI machine? Or you hear stories of people having their metal plates for previous injuries ripped out of them in an MRI machine? Same concept except the magnets literally yank the metals from the plastics of your chipsets. Your main board the fragile electronics inside of a camera module or a screen, a strong enough magnet will quite literally extract them from the plastics of a chipset. This guy was correct in the fact of old hard drives being a lot more prone to magnetic damage but that’s because they were made of metal disc that stored your data and nothing about old hard drives was meant to be tough lol go by a magnet fishing kid and put that 400+lbs magnet up to an old TV or something you don’t care if it gets ruined. Don’t worry lol the results won’t take long to see. You could even test it on something cheap like an empty vape or something. I have a magnet strong enough to not only open my fridge door but I can literally drag my fridge across the floor lol trust me it would make light work of someone’s key key fob, phone stereo, smart watch… Not to mention open stuff like security boxes or take locks depending on the tight. Magnets are heavily underestimated and a forgotten art yet still are used in many daily applications today. Let me clarify also that the only time I’ve used a magnet to open his security box was when keys were lost at my job and the Task was legal. Do not use the force for evil! Not to mention you can also find some cool stuff in lakes and crap apparently. I’ve seen a magnet be used to open a car door before since it can essentially grab the lock mechanism and move it up and down actuating the door lock. Of real life uses!

[@tylers2123]

I just did it to an iphone 14 the screen want Dark for about 15 seconds but kept playing the video I was watching and then came back on

[@sabeethagovindaraju6210]

Guys, magnet doesn't do anything to any phone no matter how strong the magnet is. But it some cases it may damge but it will only be temporary.

[@Cartoony_Master9174]

Really? My friend said it will erase my phone-

[@funniflow]

@@Cartoony_Master9174 That only happens on Hard Disk Drives, and usually not SSDs.

[@WscMetro]

My phones cellular is broken after I did that

[@chutemi216]

It happens on tvs really

[@JamesWindland]

⁠your friend does not know what he is talking about!

[@alejandrocorpuziii8702]

my samsung J7 pro's screen has been partially damaged when I placed it inside my pocket and without noticing that I have another cp in it with a magnet on its case..Can it be repaired as time goes by?

[@maryann4622]

I did something very similar and my phone screen is now frozen! I was hoping there was a remedy! Someone please answer this question.

[@cliffwoods2073]

I set a magnetic shop dish on my phone on accident and it was left over night. The phone never came on again no matter what I tried.

[@LIMITLESS27-1]

R.I.P

[@Delphene.MarieC]

Same thing happened to both of my tablets

[@Delphene.MarieC]

I set the tablets by my cameras which have magnets to stick them outside and they never came back on

[@liamsingh2443]

Put it on the side of your phone and I put that magnet next and on my tablet it just turned off

[@geemanbmw]

I dig the into music 🎶. Can do more astronomy videos please? You did that one a year ago so well you have a superb voice to the mix.

[@liamsingh2443]

Welcome to what happens

[@NikosAsteriadis]

like as stuke screen if put the magnet

[@grIMAG3]

You mean another model? They are the same brand, "Sony".

[@ThompsonSTEMEngagement]

Quite right, well caught

[@ravib2303]

My Samsung PAd stops when i put magnet near power button back side.....I am using magnet holder for Samsung Pad and in a particular position power off.(not working)....so I have to keep magnet away from that power button back side....adjusted where it works.

[@jyralnadreth4442]

How about an electromagnet? 😅

[@nelis973]

Wow great video😅😂

[@Delphene.MarieC]

DO NOT LEAVE YOUR TANLETS BY A MAGNET OVER NIGHT BECAUSE YOUR TABLETS WILL NEVER COME BACK ON AGAIN

[@lisathompson2654]

Whose phone was it??

[@Chaz2k6]

Who's phone is that

[@the.mind.electric]

Who owns the phone