If magnets damage a computer, why aren’t phones damaged by magnetic mounts?

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If magnets damage a computer, why aren’t phones damaged by magnetic mounts?

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Answer 1

Magnets don’t affect a computer to the same degree as people believe. There is a risk that data disks might get magnetized, but even this is not likely because the field created by the writing head is much stronge really close to the surface. Mobile phones don’t have any magnetic disks in them.