Do Airpods Have Magnets In Them

Apple products have a reputation, carefully built and mostly lived up to, for working well together equally an ecosystem. But hither'south a new way that maybe not even Cupertino's hardest-working nerds idea of: You can "stick" your AirPods to the top of your MacBook screen, thanks to the power of magnets.

CNN's product review and hacks TikTok business relationship, @CNNUnderscored, shared a video in July of the "hack", which was duetted and shared by enough of users. To quote 1, @constantlygus: "HWWWATTT?!"

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It works with both regular AirPods and the Pros, as the Mashable tech squad had minutes of fun confirming earlier today. You tin either put them both on one side, or one on either side; it works a little amend with the OG models, which as the original TikTok shows volition hang happily from a shared spot on the screen, while I found my Pros were more secure bundled symmetrically, each with their own magnets.

To be clear, this almost certainly isn't a characteristic specifically designed to "store" your AirPods.

Well-nigh Apple tree laptops have magnets most the top rim of the screen and matching ones along the forepart of the base. When those come close plenty together, that'southward what tells the laptop to go to sleep — which is why you lot may have at some indicate accidentally shut information technology off past placing something magnetised on the laptop. And your AirPods are magnetised considering they are tiny speakers, and speakers work through the magic of electromagnets. (For some reason likely related to the overall balance and build, 1 Mashable editor did find that her "old" Bose earpods stuck much less securely.)

So yes, this is cute and fun. But in the interests of offering responsible advice: Your AirPods come with a bang-up footling instance that both charges them even when it's not attached to a charger, and keeps them both in the aforementioned identify. You should shop them in that, not stuck to your laptop.

That said: Against my very nature, I always, ever, always put my AirPods right back in the case. Taking them out of my ears after a telephone call and tossing them on my desk the outset few times I used them earned me the tech-specific eye-roll my more disciplined partner usually reserves for when he is forced to see my file-cluttered desktop screen. (Yes, I'm a chaos gremlin. That's for another post.) But more than importantly, when I didn't put them back in the case, they didn't charge, and I would get caught out on a tiresome walk or a noisy meeting.

But some of you clearly never got by the toss-em-on-the-desk phase, and that'due south fine! Putting my AirPods back in their case every single fourth dimension I utilize them is literally the only thing I do that makes me feel like I accept my life together, and for you that ane thing might be something amend like eating a non-potato vegetable most days, or always washing your makeup off at night.

So go, exist free, and stick your AirPods to your laptop with abandon, if information technology helps y'all to keep track of them.