One of the best iPhone equipment for 2025

Peak Design’s iPhone tripod is a stable, well-designed aluminum body that folds right into a credit score card-sized form. You’re paying a premium for the construct design and high quality, with a tiny hex key even constructed into the tripod legs for tightening them, if wanted.

With a stable micro-ball head, you possibly can alter the angle of your iPhone whereas it’s in tripod mode. Higher nonetheless, it could firmly connect, magnetically, to the cellphone in each vertical and horizontal orientations. This makes it a superb stand in your cellphone even while you’re not attempting to shoot video or images.

You additionally don’t have to shell out for a Peak Design case to make sure it really works, though it does really feel extra solidly linked in case you do. Any MagSafe iPhone locks onto the peripheral, sustaining a stable maintain on this cellular tripod whether or not in use or folded away.

There are many extra inexpensive MagSafe cellphone stands, corresponding to Moft’s Snap-On Stand and Wallet, which props up your iPhone whereas holding a number of bank cards, Anker’s MagGo phone grip, and the now-ubiquitous PopSockets. Whereas MagSafe equipment like these are handy, they gained’t be as sturdy as one thing securely snapped onto your smartphone or a smartphone case. All the MagSafe stands, wallets, chargers, and different equipment I’ve tried ultimately fell off if I utilized sufficient pressure. Nevertheless, there’s no sticky residue or the necessity to use a particular case with Peak Design’s tripod. — Mat Smith, UK Bureau Chief