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Originally Posted by psycholoner
The things that magnets can screw up are slowly being removed from the electronics scene.
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A magnet can saturate the inductors in the switched mode power supply circuitry in electronic devices. This will cause a "brownout" as it won't be able to supply the necessary current and the device will act oddly or crash.
Generally you're safe unless you have a big Neodymium or other rare earth element magnet and are waving it up close to the device.
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Originally Posted by psycholoner
Feel free to stick some on your phone, an iPod, iPhone, iPad w/e. It won't do anything.
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Strong magnets will make the iDevices crash because of the power supply issue above. There isn't much the manufacturers can do as magnetic shielding is expensive and bulky. The onus is generally on the user not to wave big magnets that close to their electronics devices.